27 December, 2006

Small can't be beautiful

My mother and her partner, D, have been cursing his brother for days, for 'fobbing-off' D with a 'free-sample' mp3 player as a proper christmas present.  It's so small that it just has to have been a free gift with petrol or something.

I've just seen it, with the expectation that I'd contribute my scorn to the collective outrage. I think you can guess where this is going....

It's a genuine 1GB iPod Shuffle. Having been obliged to show them the appropriate page at Amazon, I now know that the supposed 'freebie' cost £55.