Our Creative Zen V Plus 2GB Portable Media Player is a refurb. Imagine where it has been, what is has seen. The dark nights on the plain, the whispered last wishes of a partner, a past it wants only to escape… but a brand that stays forever.

The cowboy rode into town, wearing his past like a hand-me-down trenchcoat. They called him “Refurb” and he never denied it. He was a Creative Zen V Plus 2GB Portable Media Player.

The local video players would spit when he walked past the town square. The Creative Zen V Plus 2GB Portable Media Player only showed photos, photos and sound. The MP3, the WMA, the WAV, the Audible file, these weren’t enough for the upper class types in their silk and linen, types that had no need for calendars or alarm clocks, no need to sync with Outlook to use as a personal organizer. That’s all they saw in him, what he wasn’t.

In winter the Widow Sally went to visit. At first they barely spoke except about the wood she need him to chop. Soon she was visiting twice a week to bring him soup and cooked chicken. She learned about his customizable main menu, his 8 EQ settings, and his built-in voice recorder. But most astonishing to her was his Direct CD recording, that let him rip right from a CD player or stereo without needing a PC. It was that discovery that led her to share her cassette and record collection with him as they lay in the moonlight.

Come summer the Creative Zen V Plus 2GB Portable Media Player was building fences while his new wife looked on. He sometimes went to the saloon and had a drink. The local video players stopped thinking of him as a refurb. He was just another tiny player on the wild wild frontier.

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