Oops....mini through the wash!

wow something like this happened to another guy just a few days ago, maybe do a search and see what the responses were there. I dunno if they'll replace it or not, best thing to do would be to NOT turn it on for a couple weeks and let it dry out, and after that time, if it doesn't work contact best buy and hope they'll replace it. Goodluck

I'd prolly contact best buy and see what they can do, chances are trying to turn it on with the water inside shorted something.

if you have a replacement plan, just wait till the thing dries out, bring it back to them, and act like you dont know what happened. They'll replace it right then and there for you, and they'll have no idea what happened to it until their tech checks it out. Even then, they might just think the thing shorted itself out or something.

lol, that's one way to do it :) every store is a little different, my techs are all evil, so we assume everyone returning something is just as evil as us, so we nitpick returns like crazy...except for our own ;) my old creative took a short trip through a microwave when I decided I wanted a mini :D

that's why they take your information when you do a return. That way, when they find the fraud you've committed, they can go after you...

As for your Tide-Fresh iPod, unless you have some kind of accidental damage insurance, looks like you're buying a new mini...unless of course you're going to defraud the store and tell them it just quit working... in which case you will be contributing to the rise in cost of extended warranties.

Originally posted by Rudis
I have a friend who has access to a shrink wrapping machine. One time he was trying to mod his TI-85 graphing calculator, but messed up the soldering job and fried the whole thing.

He bought a new TI-85 from Best Buy, swapped it out for his botched one, re-shrinkwrapped the box, and returned it the next day saying he got it as a gift for someone, but it turned out they already had a graphing calculator. They gave him a full refund.

I feel sorry for the guy who ended up with that calculator after they re-shelved it.

That's illegal and just plain wrong.

Originally posted by Rudis
I have a friend who has access to a shrink wrapping machine. One time he was trying to mod his TI-85 graphing calculator, but messed up the soldering job and fried the whole thing.

He bought a new TI-85 from Best Buy, swapped it out for his botched one, re-shrinkwrapped the box, and returned it the next day saying he got it as a gift for someone, but it turned out they already had a graphing calculator. They gave him a full refund.

I feel sorry for the guy who ended up with that calculator after they re-shelved it.

My freind did this with Half-Life 2...He opened the box and removed the sticker thing with a blowdryer, installed it, registered the CD key, and repackaged the box and returned it...once the CD key is registered, the new owner cant even play the game...LOL sucks for them.

Unrelated but sometimes people can be so cheap; Costco has a great return policy but unfortunately some people abuse it. *Someone* bought a Maxtor 250Gb hard drive-- returned it the next week with their old 20Gb drive in the place of the 250Gb one. Bad karma. =P

Originally posted by PooPod916
My freind did this with Half-Life 2...He opened the box and removed the sticker thing with a blowdryer, installed it, registered the CD key, and repackaged the box and returned it...once the CD key is registered, the new owner cant even play the game...LOL sucks for them.

lol i did the same thing 9 times with HL2 to get a copy for all my frends. plus i work at BB so i got the collectors edition for 30 dollars so lok at that 30 insted of 80 and and divide that by 8 and it comes out to like 3.75 for each colllectors edition copy LOL!!!

nd ur the epitome of ###