Zen update I mentioned the Zen's wired remote. What I didn't know is that they were on backorder. Some people have stated that they are back ordered til at least June! You can find them on EBay for $120 when they retail for $60.

I found this on nomadness.net

"despite what you may have heard or read, the wired remotes arent that rare.

i emailed crative tech support saying that the entire reason i picked a zen over an ipod is that i could get the wired remote; i told them that i was neither pleased with the fake shortage of remotes nor their using it to manipulate supply and demand. i added that im dissatisfied with the zen software, and was seriously considering returning my zen in favor of the ipod.

an hour later creative contacted me with instructions to call them and they'd let one of the 'few remaining' remotes go for me.

5 days later, i got the remote.

i suggest everyone do the same, perhaps creative will learn some sort of lesson.

if you'd like, i could paste their reply into a submission to prove this; im not making it up.

ps- red chair notmad rules." Posted by chris at 01:39 PM Hardware • (0) Trackbacks