Joey’s Smokin’ BBQ, Carlsbad.
Now I own three MacBooks (2.0, 2.16, 2.4) and five iPod Classics — two and a half of them work.
Got two more iPods this weekend, one of which I really like, even though I mangled the case taking it apart and the hard drive is dead. Those hard drives are pretty annoying — I guess if I kept it for myself I’d replace it with a memory card, but those are still pretty expensive, at $85 for 32gb. What I may do is post an ad on Craigslist: broken iPods wanted, working iPods available!
I don’t think I’d make much money off that, if any, but now that I know how to do it, it seems like it’d be kinda fun to try to get it going. Mobile iPod and MacBook repair? Weekends only — I come to you!
By September, four iPods went in the mail in one day. Only one that didn’t sell for enough to make me feel it was worth it. Buy on CL, sell on eBay seems to be a pretty good business plan — I’m still not sure if I’ll make any money at it. I’m starting out about $100 in the hole because of fixing Mom’s for free and buying those two piece-of-crap old ones.
One bounced — she got it and it wouldn’t sync. The other is a Neil Diamond fan who’s going to have to erase it to get it to work on his Windows machine, not that the songs were really worth anything.
I broke one the other day — broke off one of the tiny clips that holds down a ribbon cable. Now a $75 board is useless. D’oh. And otherwise it was ready to sell, too.
As far as I can tell, I’ve lost about $450 on the iPod repair, not counting the one I have left and the three Nanos I’m keeping for projects — and the one I repaired for Mom. So that puts me at around $50 down. Shouldn’t have sold my Nano 4th, only got $60 for it, but I now know that’s not all that bad.
I think I’m done with the iPod repair.