If you’re like many people in the world, you’ve recently been given an ipod. They seem to be passed out like Halloween candy these days as the prime prize for everything from soft drink contests to birthday parties. They seem to convey a sense of status, since they are costly, but extremely easy to obtain en masse. Now that you’ve returned home with your new ipod you may be wondering exactly what to do with it. While the rest of the world is downloading ten songs a minute, you might be living with nothing more than dial-up internet, downloading a song a day. Perhaps, you only have your 10 or 20 favorite songs as digital media, while the rest is floating around your house in CD form. That’s hardly enough to justify an ipod. For the time being you’ve lived without one, even though all your friends wonder why you’re still sticking with your Walkman, but having that brand new device sitting in the package, untouched and sparkling, might be too much for you to bear. As things go you have several options for what to do with it.

1. Sell It. While it may break your heart to part with a free gift, depending on how old the model is you can probably get near to retail value for an iPod still in its original packaging. If it was a gift from a relative, maybe they even included the receipt, and you can return it for store credit or cash. If you have a younger sibling, you can try re-gifting it for Christmas and they’ll probably be super excited.

2. Get High Speed Internet. Think it’s impossible where you live because terrestrial broadband providers just aren’t available in rural and remote areas of the country? Think again. Now, with the availability of satellite internet, it’s fully possible to get fast downloads no matter where you are located. In fact, satellite broadband service has download speeds up to 75 times faster than dial-up. Now that’s fast. Imagine downloading songs for you new iPod in minutes, instead of hours, and you might change your mind about keeping it.

3. Hold Onto It. While it may just sit around collecting dust on the shelf, someday, that iPod may be a collector’s item in its original packaging. Just like the old school action figures from Star Wars and Comic Strips, someday at auction your new iPod will be a classic item worth thousands of dollars. And hey, just think, by then maybe you will have caved in and gone with satellite internet broadband, and will even be able to sell it over your home computer!

4. Move. In order to get high speed DSL or cable, without going with satellite internet, you may just have to pack up your things and move. That way, you can walk around your new town rocking out to your iPod. While you might not have enough cash to buy and iTunes, you will certainly be able to trick your new friends into passing you their old music!

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