FalloutBoy said:Thank you, thank you, thank you to the OP! I sent my 2GB rockboxed sansa through the wash this week - I have two of these and they were both refurbs and had both been running strong for about a year till the washing machine incident. Can't beat the price and the feature set - these little things are awesome!

If you know you're going to be rockboxing for sure, might as well add a 4GB card from this thread and have a 10G flash player for less than $65!

Falloutboy, don't turn it on & just put it out to dry in the sun for a couple days. That's what my crazy engineer uncle eddy told me when I dropped my phone in the pool last summer. Sounds nutty but it worked.

Also, you can use a hair dryer on low or cool heat if you live in a gloomy sun-deprived place like Seattle (j/k).

In for one, thanks!

Now, where do I find an inexpensive extra USB cable for this?

I recv'd mine on Saturday...works great. Did anybody else get theirs yet?

Got mine today. Looks immaculately new.

Also noticed that the wheel is the new and improved Sansa rubberized wheel.

I feel like getting a skin for it now.

green, paid the same price for the 4 gig one at woot about a week ago. This thing is surprisingly heavy though compared to an Ipod Nano, but about the same size.

Still, for 1/3rd the price of a Nano, it's well worth it.

I was never happy with the video output using the factory firmware. I would recommend updating to rockbox and use WinFF if you're interested in video...

jerry2003 said:have not got mine, in fact, no shipping email yet - and now the site is down?

Check your spam folder.

anerancher said:TheDude said:serafinac said:I purchased one of these back around December. By March (of course after 90 days) my left headphone stopped working. It's not a problem with the headphone, but a problem with the jack. These things are cheap for a reason. I don't think I would purchase from Sandisk again.I've had my Sansa E260 for about 18 months. No problems with it.

24 months, no problems. Works like new. Battery too. Heavy use in an ag/dirty/greasy environment.

Rockbox works just fine.
I bought a total of two refurbished e250s about a little less then a year ago. The one from woot came with the outer shell a little less glossy and pretty. Buy.com refurb came very pretty looking and in like new condition. I believe some of the shell components seemed different as if Buy.com sansa was better.

The woot.com one failed just awhile ago so I have to format the whole thing out. I don't know what the cause of it freezing up is but I installed rockbox on the woot one and not the Buy.com one.

They both had the same songs in them and both were used about an equal amount. The Buy.com one is still working very nicely and still looks way better then the woot one.

I guess what i'm trying to say is sometimes you win on a refurb sometimes you don't

Green. Got me one after trying out a co-worker's!
I hope they ship it out before the holiday weekend.

Do you (or anybody) have a good solution for getting video on the player? I can save the video fine, but can't seem to move it over. I'm sure it's a user error. Thanks.