iPod Shuffle on the Blink

I have an annoying problem with my iPod Shuffle which I noticed just a few days ago. The "title skip forward"-button doesn't always register when I press down on it. Sometimes I have to press it quite a few times until it skips to the next title. I've had the Shuffle since March and it really hasn't been in that much use. I assume that it's a mechanical problem.

So I went to the store I bought it at, Gravis on Ku'Damm. The "store" is actually floorspace provided by Hugendubel, one of the big booksellers here in Berlin (and elswhere in Germany). I reported the problem to one of the salesman there (the only one), she checked the iPod and said, yeah there seems to be a problem. The funny thing was that the more she probed, the less times the iPod showed this erratic behavior. In Germany we say this is the "Vorführeffekt" (demonstration effect), i.e. it always does exactly what its supposed to only when you want to prove the opposite. Oh well. She did tell me that I would have to bring it to their main store on Franklin Strasse so that a technician could loo into the problem.

On the way back in the U-Bahn the I had to press the button 5 times to skip to the next title. I guess the "Vorführeffekt" must have worn off...