I got a popup after about 10 seconds that offered me a $5 coupon off any purchase over $5, e-mailed to me if I supplied my first name and e-mail address. $3 additional shipping for each additional Connect.
So with coupon:
$25 for 1st Connect
$28 each additional Connect.
EDIT: Just saw this in the Yugster description: "** This player may have some minor scratches due to packaging"**. It appears to be small scratches in the screens, from reading two posts in the discussion:
“Ours were new, but both had a couple of small identical marks on the screen caused by the ‘white box’ repackaging. You can’t see them when the screen is active though.”
“The screens both had small scratches , but not bad.”
A third post by a previous buyer didn’t mention any scratches.
Though these Connects have probably been sitting around for a while, and I think someone said that the type of battery that’s in the Connect has a limited shelf life in terms of its ability to hold a charge. Not sure what the shelf life is.
Keep it in the fridge at ~40% charge level. According to this chart, storing at room temperature (25C/77F) at a 40% charge level loses only 4%/year. And in the cold part of the fridge, even stored at 100%, it only loses 6%/yr. (and only 2%/yr. @ 40% level).
Anecdotally, I have never yet had a li-ion battery go bad, except in two refurbs. People often claim li-ions have a life of 2 years or 300-500 charges. Those figures must be for daily charging. I’m still on the original battery of a PDA I bought as an open box in 2003 (which I’ve only charged about once a week or less).
