IPod 3rd Generation is killing my Headphones?

This is not a troll post , this is a 100% serious I'm asking now and need more information about what I can do to prevent it in the future. MedlinePlus MedlinePlus I bought a refurbished iPod 3rd generation of Gamestop about two weeks ago . It works great, but last week I noticed a problem ... One of my headset was not working . I assumed they were just cheap headphones so I asked a friend to lend me a pair of headphones . MedlinePlus MedlinePlus The headphones worked great for a day and a half . When I got up , went to use them again and the right side was dead , it would not work . This was crazy , I went through two pairs of headphones in less than a week ! MedlinePlus MedlinePlus I went online and looked around . Apparently , the iPod may experience connection failures with the headphone jack . So I went and tried a new set of headphones and found that it worked perfectly fine . I tested the two old " broken " sets and found that the right side of both sets completely broke , no sound came out of any of them . MedlinePlus MedlinePlus Then I discovered that Apperently there as an "urban legend " or something the iPod can really send too much power to one side of the headphones and hit the right side out and while thousands of people have claimed that this has happened to them, many people refute this claim , saying it was something else. MedlinePlus MedlinePlus I'm at a dead end here , I'd buy a new set of headphones, pleasant in that, but I do not want to go wrong in a few days or a week . Can anyone offer any ideas on what is happening and why my iPod is losing my headphones ?