Comments on: iPodMeister Review

By: Greg Fudane

Greg Fudane — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:40:27 +0000

Interesting discussion. Before we moved from Brooklyn to Phoenix we saw a flyer about iPodMeister in a local bar. The guy showed up at night, went checked out our CDs, took everything and gave us the money for a new iPod. We expected a new iPod from the ipod-Meister but cash was okay. He said that he doesn’t feel comfortable visiting strangers in apartments he hasn’t been in with a new iPod in his jacket. He packed everything on a moving dolly he had brought and I helped him roll the boxes into the elevator. The “iPodMeister mobile” is just a regular, beaten down boxy car without any iPodMeister lettering or logo. We repeated the same deal for my wife two weeks later. I felt for the guy and we have recommended him to our friends. Thanks for writing about iPod-Meister!

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By: john

john — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:23 +0000

Thanks for stopping by and giving iPodMeister’s side of the story on this one Kris – you pretty much said what I was thinking. I also had a few CDs rejected, and all for the legitimate reasons documented. In my case though it just meant a smaller check for me since I had extra – in Kevin’s case he didn’t have enough for the device he wanted so he was being asked to send money, which I’m sure is what got him worked up.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:37:15 +0000

Kevin,
there is no reason why you should be angry. We stated clearly on our website (http://www.ipodmeister.com/eligiblecds.htm) and in the detailed e-mail you received that we do NOT accept CDs with incomplete cover art or radio edits, promos, or singles. We also stated clearly that we do NOT accept CDs that are severly scratched or boxsets that are incomplete. You sent over 100 (!) items that fell into these categories. Why are you surprised that we did accept CDs that were clearly described as unacceptable. Common sense tells you that these CDs couldn’t have any value for anybody. We don’t “fool” anybody. We made clear -both on our website and in the detailed e-mail sent to you- that damaged, incomplete, worthless CDs are … well, wortless and that we don’t accept them. Sorry, but there is absolutely no basis for your complaint.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:33:33 +0000

EMAIL RESPONSE FROM iPodMeister:
We received your CD’s. After careful screening and counting we arrived at the following results:

87 items had incomplete cover art or were radio edits, promos, or singles.

9 items were scratched excessively.

14 cds were in incomplete boxsets and therefore not acceptable

Based on the results outlined above you will need to remit a payment of $115 either by check to the address listed below or by paypal post to @@@@bklynbooks.com to be eligible to receive the 8GB iTouch with no digitizing. Pending receipt of your payment we will purchase the iTouch and ship it out within 5 business days. I’ll send you the tracking information as soon as it is picked up by Fed-Ex—a signature will be required to receive your package. Please remember that since “no digitizing” was chosen your cds will not be backed up to dvds—this will be a straight trade of your cds for the item(s) you have requested.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:31:21 +0000

Attention: iPodMeister is easy to fool you when it comes to claiming your prize. “its to good to be true”. they claim some of my cds were damaged and covers missing and damaged cds do to shipping.. they irritate me when it come to communicating to them, i rather throw away the remainder of my cds then give them anything else.

By: Freehan Marello

Freehan Marello — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:27:51 +0000

ah, it’s great to see that you had such a great experience with ipodmeister just like i did. their service is ABSOLUTELY legitimate and pretty quick, and now all my dusty cd’s aren’t just sitting around for no reason and i have a brand new iphone. bravo, ipodmeister!