Among seemingly endless options for iPod music downloads on the web, there are genuine websites and there are outright scams. Fortunately, the latter are less common. They primarily aim at the first-time users, who are just exploring the option of iPod music downloads on the Internet and in all the excitement are likely to part with their money easily.

By now, if you ever used a free iPod music site, you would have known that the last thing to expect from such a site is excellent service. It is rare to see them providing support since it is free. So the next time your computer gets hit by a virus or malware when you download a song, or you realize that the iPod music downloads are of poor unclear acoustics, do not complain.

Needless to say, if you have to make a payment for your songs, you expect a certain level of good service. Membership sites for unlimited iPod music downloads are known to run professional services and come with a wide collection of music and videos. But even amongst them, there are black sheep. So watch out!

One of the examples are some sites, which claim to have an enormous number of iPod music downloads (as well as other iPod media), nearing a hundred million. However, when you try to see what genre of music exactly they offer, you see nothing on their site. Some of these only have a small database of less than a few thousand files.

Several of these sites have been blacklisted for not delivering their promise. Instead of providing you with millions of files to download, you pay $40 for only a few thousand iPod music downloads. And from there, you are left hanging alone.

Others are not the most professional sites I would go for. They provide low quality music and the selection of songs is too limited and genres too narrow. Some simply take your money and run away without giving you any download links. Yet there are a few I tested that are so poorly maintained that they run out of server resources really quick. The worst lot I tried out even charge me for some filesharing software that belongs to freeware. There are many horrible flaws that I do not have time to share.

While these scam sites are a minority, you never know when you meet one. So it pays to do some research and reading up before you sign up with any. Spend an evening reading up independent reviews on membership sites offering iPod music downloads.

Read a full review of the top services for iPod music downloads that are reputed for reliablity and excellent service standards at my entertainment blog.