should i buy the extended warranty for the apple i pod?

Answer 1

Companies that sell extended warranties do so to make profit from them, not to be generous to their customers. That means they're pulling in more money on warranties sold than warranties that pay out, and that means that extended warranties do not pay out often enough that consumers will break even. If you want peace of mind, go ahead and buy it, but realize that you'll probably be wasting your money. The most common problem that iPods experience is unusually reduced battery life, and the most common reason for that is not the quality of the battery, but the fact that people let their iPods' hard-drives get really fragmented to the point where individual songs get scattered all over the hard-drive, which ends up having to race to keep up with the audio that you're hearing. That sucks the battery dry unusually fast. All you have to do to prevent that is unload all your music/movies/podcasts/games every couple of months and reload them on a nice fresh hard-drive.

Answer 2

I would say yes because I bought an iPod and didn't get the warranty and then two months after the one-year warranty that the iPod comes with expired, my iPod's hard drive died and they wouldn't do anything about it. I had to buy a new one.