Nick Welling the collector the iPods prefer listening songs on his iPhone. He does not want to disturb any of his iPods from his collection. He has collected more than 108 iPods in his collection from all the generations. He total collection of the songs is no lesser than 2, 31,000 under his assumption and all of them are factory sealed in the boxes of the iPod bought by him.

Apple has shifted the interest of millions of people. Right from the age of the cassettes to the CD’s and then finally shifted to the small iPods. Nick is a peer level collector of the iPods and says that he does not collect iPods because he has a charm for the gadget however he collects them because of their time stamp in the history.

Nick works as an expert in the field of IT and lives in Manchester, United Kingdom. He says that it always feels nice to him when he shows some one the journey of Apple. How the transition has happened in the path of the technology for music lovers. He started collecting from 2001 when Apple launched their 5GB model which stored up to 1000 songs in the device. By the year 2007, April they had already sold 100 million units making them the larger company selling so many gadgets ever in the history however in the same year Apple also started facing crisis of sales later. They saw that their sales have slowed down in market.

For most of the people the value of the collection could be junk however the first generation iPod is selling at $14,900 on Ebay. An offer of $50,000 has been made for first three models of the iPod models which is 5Gb, 10Gb and 20Gb. Welling has a special edition U2 iPod in his collection which has fetched more than $90,000 in the online market. The prices offered for the collection is crazy and probably this is why collector run after shelling their money on special edition of the gadgets.