RCA Opal 4 GB Video MP3 player with 1.8-inch Display, FM Radio, and Voice Recording (Blue) Review

We bought 3 of these RCA MP3 players on black Friday from WalMart when they had them (the 8GB ones) on sale for $49. I gave the first to my oldest son (17 years old) for his birthday. He used it a few times and the screen stopped lighting up. We did all the suggested troubleshooting to no avail and had to mail it in to Audiovox for repair (WalMart would not take it back after more than 15 days). The second MP3 player worked for a total of 6 weeks when it went into the initializing mode and froze. We tried to update the firmware as RCA suggests as a fix for this extremely common problem with these. Well the MP3 player is not recopnized as even being connected to any computer we have tried. SO... that one is being mailed in for repair. We have just started using the 3rd one we bought but I am sure it will break like the other two and like the very many we see have broken for others. This is a little ridiculous! A product should last more than a few weeks. Once the warranty period is over, I guess we will be looking for new MP3 players as I am sure this will break again very soon!

Oh and whatever you do, do NOT lose your receipt. RCA will not do any warranty work without it and you will need warranty work I am sure!

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