Originally posted by: Number20
A question for the iPod owners (not shuffle, but ipod/mini/nanos) Are these things just very scratch prone, or are people careless with them? It seems like quite a few of the iPods that I've seen are very scratched up.

They are extremely scratch prone. I was uber-careful with mine, and small scratches still snuck onto it, so now I have plastic covering both the front and back, a rubber 'glove' and a case. As a result my ipod is *almost* perfect. The video ipod actually comes with a little slip case, but it's pretty useless because it has no hole for the screen or controls.