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Title: Decent Player, Horrid Store
Review: The player is nice, if a little large. The store is terrible. You have to buy a package of points. If you don't spend all your points Microsoft still gets the money and keeps it until you do. Say you want two songs. You have to buy $5 worth of points from Microsoft. Each song costs $0.99, so Microsoft keeps your $3.02 in it's back account until you spend it. Now say you buy 5 songs at once. At .99 a song that comes to $4.95. Microsoft keeps your nickel.So in reality the price of the songs are more than iTunes, but they don't tell you that. If you buy just one song, it's $5. If you buy 2, it's $2.50 a song. If you buy 5, it's a dollar each. Microsoft does not tell you about the hidden pricing. It's this kind of if not downright deceptive then misleading practice that makes me shy away from the player.
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