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What does getting the 6 dollar insurance cover?
- Fly like a G2
Lost, stolen, broken, dropped, water damage... it covers everything. But to get a replace you will have to pay a deductable. I believe its 130??
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Yup, $130 incase the phone is stolen/lost. The warranty also extends to 2 years instead of 1. And they will service it free of charge if there is physical damage. I took it for the G2 due to the hinge, so over 2 years if the hinge gets REALLY bad I can get a replacement.
The warranty isn't for two years, its for as long as you have it out as long as they support it
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I love ins. When someone smarter then I figures out root and I brick my phone trying it will only cost me $130 to replace. At least I won't send it in and pretend like I didn't try to root it
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Just a thought but is it possible to pretend its lost/stolen and get that replacement phone? That way I can get another G2 for my girl can't afford for retail price since I used all my credit line..
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That's illegal and it's called Fraud. Pretty sure it's a hefty fine + jailtime if actually convicted.
But how do they know? You can say it got lost at a theme park right?
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Not the best idea
@noodles2224
Yea you could say some lie like that BUT remember that #1 insurance companies are giving you a 500 dollar phone for 130. So they make it their business to know what happend to your phone. I had to file a claim for a lost g1 and they made me get police reports and everything before they helped me out. #2 every phone has an IMEI number unique to itself and it is registered on the network when the phone is in use (I'm not 100% sure of how it works but they know if that phone is being used or not.) AND if the insurance company finds out that the phone YOU purchased (with its unique IMEI number) that is now claimed to be stolen is being used they might go and find out who is using it or who knows...
I wouldn't risk the fine or jail time or court just for a phone for your girlfriend if you want her to have one sooo bad then you can save up for it or at least tell her you'll give her half or some thing...
Besides I wouldn't see the g2 as the best upgrade option I'm bummed out that it was released with an 800mhz processor... WHY? All the new high end phones are using 1ghz... but w.e. everyone has theyr likes and dislikes... I'm personally waiting for something else...
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There's another warranty thats 1.99 a month and it covers all the same thing the 6 dollar rate does except for lost or stolen phones. Its only available up to 2 weeks after you purchased the phone. I think it's more likely to have a phone that has broken hinges and buttons instead of losing a phone.
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But how do they know? You can say it got lost at a theme park right?
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Hmm... Why don't you try it and find out? I mean what's the worst that can happen? It's easily worth losing a year of your life to jail to save $250!
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Hmm... Why don't you try it and find out? I mean what's the worst that can happen? It's easily worth losing a year of your life to jail to save $250!
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Actually, not even that with the $130 deductible, you would only save $120.
But sticking to the original question it covers a lot and its easily worth the $6 if anything happens to the phone physically (cracked damaged broken stolen ran over, abducted by aliens) the insurance company, asurion, will replace it for $130 deductable.
And if anything like software wise or memory card reader messes up or something inside that's NOT your "direct" fault tmobile will replace it for free. But it can't be physically damaged or cracked screen or anything it has to be something inside or even bricked, you can get away with some good excuses and making believe you don't know anything when they ask, did you try to root it? Uhhh... what's that? Lol
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The other great thing about a carrier having your IMEI# is that they can render it unusable on their or any other network within North America. I am about 98% certain that when you report a phone lost or stolen to Assurion, or Tmobile that their policy is to Blackllist the IMEI # of the phone.
As far as I can tell it only works on this continent, you could get a blacklisted phone to work in Europe.
It is similar to how a phone is added into a network, like say you flash a Verizon phone to Metro, they have to add the IMEI into their system so you can use it. In this case they just make it so you can't use it.
Also they do know if you have used a phone. I had a Nexus one and a Vibrant. I lost my Nexus while using my Vibrant. When I placed the claim with Assurion, they wanted me to call Tmobile and find out the last day my SIM card was used in my Nexus. Tmobile new exactly the last day my sim was in the Nexus.
So they know. And now, you know that they know.
OMF!!!! Come on guys..........how many times are your phones taken or lost and they find it???? They do not care that's why thousands of us pay 6 bucks a month and make them money. So all you wanna be naysayers trying to be xda police let them get one for their girl and be positive. Ill just say this, you lost your phone and give yours to your girl and bam!!!! You will get special attention the night you give it to her =)
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thats not true, they dont blacklist the devices. Only verizon and sprint do that.
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How about not stealing or commiting fraud because it is wrong? You want something; earn it.
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Tekk83 said:
There's another warranty thats 1.99 a month and it covers all the same thing the 6 dollar rate does except for lost or stolen phones. Its only available up to 2 weeks after you purchased the phone. I think it's more likely to have a phone that has broken hinges and buttons instead of losing a phone.
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http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23694.xml;jsessionid=KjZenf0v916OVRAXNs#4
In the table, it says that the warranty (1.99) covers only malfunction. And "normal wear and tear" is grouped with malfunction in the description at the top of the page. So hinge falling apart is normal wear and tear I'm assuming? what about scratches? And then how is Damaged defined? Any one have any idea? I don't want to pay 6 bucks when I can pay 2...
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OMF!!!! Come on guys..........how many times are your phones taken or lost and they find it???? They do not care that's why thousands of us pay 6 bucks a month and make them money. So all you wanna be naysayers trying to be xda police let them get one for their girl and be positive. Ill just say this, you lost your phone and give yours to your girl and bam!!!! You will get special attention the night you give it to her =)
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Seriously that's why I had that idea of saying its lost and getting that replacement for her.. saves me and makes both of us happy
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@noodles2224
But how do they know? You can say it got lost at a theme park right?
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I had similar thoughts when I was younger and even talked to a T-Mo rep about it. I learned that if at any point you insert your own SIM card into the phone you claim was lost or stolen, you can expect a not-so friendly visit from the insurance company's lawyers or investigators.
Say you give your phone away to your girlfriend. The first thing they will do is check the SIM card and the account it is tied to. If you don't share the same address, or are linked in some way say through relatives or former addresses (anything a basic background check would show), then they will check the call history and see if you two know each other. It doesn't take a high school education to figure out if your phone was stolen or not. Claiming it was lost won't do much for you either.
I wouldn't be surprised if T-Mo can now remotely disable devices. If the phone is on and transmitting, it can be located pretty easily as well, whether that's for prosecution or recovering losses. I am pretty sure that if you make a claim with the phone in-hand and turn it on, you'll find yourself in trouble very quickly. If **** goes down, good luck convincing anyone, especially a lawyer or judge that your girlfriend stole it.
They don't take fraud lightly; I don't think you should as well.
I'm having some problems with my phone and customer care told me to just switch it out through the buyers remorse policy at a T-mobile store. I know you have to erase all signs of having rooted the phone before sending it to HTC under the limited warranty or else they charge you. Do I also have to set it back to stock before returning it directly to T-mobile through buyers remorse?
Rooting the phone voids the warranty
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I would just to make things easier. It's easy enough to do, why make more problems than you need?
I know it voids the warranty but what exactly does that mean in terms of consequences when I return the phone to T-mobile via buyers remorse given they take it back without noticing? It's actually the mytouch and we don't have the stock recovery for it yet and I already put a custom recovery on it so I can't get it back to stock (yet)
Thanks for the help
I think the insurance may be handled differently, but when I had to return my G1 for an insurance replacement I didnt bother to un-root it.
I never heard anything about it.
My only guess is that they won't repair your phone and say, "Oh, you voided the warranty by rooting so we can't help you."
Or maybe they will and charge you for it. Not sure, but my guess is that they won't be much of help.
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My only guess is that they won't repair your phone and say, "Oh, you voided the warranty by rooting so we can't help you."
Or maybe they will and charge you for it. Not sure, but my guess is that they won't be much of help.
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I was just gonna exchange it since I'm still in my buyers remorse without even bringing up the rooting.
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carlsbad0331 said:
I think the insurance may be handled differently, but when I had to return my G1 for an insurance replacement I didnt bother to un-root it.
I never heard anything about it.
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Not that I recommend it or anything, but back in the G1 days my 2nd and 3rd replacements were rooted. One of them I undid, one I didn't. I never heard anything about it from T-Mobile.
When you send a phone back, they usually check to see that a) the screen isn't broken and b) the water damage stickers are ok. Beyond that, they don't do much besides toss them on a pile to be sent back to the manufacturer.
c_licious said:
I know it voids the warranty but what exactly does that mean in terms of consequences when I return the phone to T-mobile via buyers remorse given they take it back without noticing? It's actually the mytouch and we don't have the stock recovery for it yet and I already put a custom recovery on it so I can't get it back to stock (yet)
Thanks for the help
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Why didn't you backup your stock rom through recovery before flashing a custom one? Would make everything a cinch
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If anything, maybe you can not mention it and see where that takes you and proceed to feign ignorance, haha.
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If anything, maybe you can not mention it and see where that takes you and proceed to feign ignorance, haha.
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Root? What is this root you speak of? I assure you I have not attempted to water my phone.
Just send it back and see if they even notice.
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Why didn't you backup your stock rom through recovery before flashing a custom one? Would make everything a cinch
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It's not the rom but the recovery that I can't restore. It's all good though. I'm just gonna return it to the store with ClockworkMod recovery installed. They won't notice. I was just wondering how HTC will handle it once it gets shipped back to them but since the return wasn't processed through them it shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the input guys!
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If u got the insurance it doesn't matter. If not then u better go back to stock or they'll charge u for the phone
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I can't say for the G2, but when I had my Nexus One, I had it replaced through HTC under factory warrant and the bootloader was unlocked (which is suppose to void warrant). They never said anything about it and never charged me anything.
Correct, they won't really care unless u bricked it. Otherwise it was faulty hardware or remorse. N if u bring it n have warranty, I'm not sure, but they probably replace it for a fee.
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I'm having some problems with my phone and customer care told me to just switch it out through the buyers remorse policy at a T-mobile store. I know you have to erase all signs of having rooted the phone before sending it to HTC under the limited warranty or else they charge you. Do I also have to set it back to stock before returning it directly to T-mobile through buyers remorse?
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Hi, i worked for a tmobile licensed retailer for a year and continue to have contacts within corporate locations as well as other licensees and the truth is as follows:
The employees don't care a whole lot to see if the software is rooted or not, more often than not, a fistful of people have heard of rooting but dont know exactly how to root or what it means, and a smaller fistful are people like myself.
If youre terribly worried, just put on the stock boot animation or flash it to stock (ish) rom. If its a brick, its a brick, just dont walk in announcing that its something you did; they should swap it out there and then with a minimum of questions asked. If they ask what happened, you dont know. We're only instructed to check the water damage stickers and warranty voiding screw stickers just to make sure its not user error, we were/are in no way trained to discern the software's integrity and are instructed to do little more than factory reset it. The end
I cant speak for the corporate locations but our exchanged phones would be sent at the end of each month to some tertiary company that refurbishes the phones. Even if HTC wanted to send agents with laptops out to check on all the HBOOTs and Roots, they would have to do it at a store level, or next up, the refurb centers; at which point these phones are out of your hands and theres not a whole lot they could possibly do to trace it back to you.
tl;dr
Do not worry, play it cool
PS:
And if they dont want to swap it out within your 14 days (30 if youre in CA), dial customer care right there and tell em youre at a store and they wont do the exchange; the CC rep will put his indignant face on and harass the rep at the store, making threats to file complaints and whatnot.
PPS:
I remember instances where the 1.6 OTA was bricking phones, and if i remember correctly an update just rolled out recently.
(probably a soft brick that could have easily been resolved with some fastboot shenanigans, but i didnt care enough to install adb+fastboot on 3 computers)
N31N said:
Hi, i worked for a tmobile licensed retailer for a year and continue to have contacts within corporate locations as well as other licensees and the truth is as follows:
The employees don't care a whole lot to see if the software is rooted or not, more often than not, a fistful of people have heard of rooting but dont know exactly how to root or what it means, and a smaller fistful are people like myself.
If youre terribly worried, just put on the stock boot animation or flash it to stock (ish) rom. If its a brick, its a brick, just dont walk in announcing that its something you did; they should swap it out there and then with a minimum of questions asked. If they ask what happened, you dont know. We're only instructed to check the water damage stickers and warranty voiding screw stickers just to make sure its not user error, we were/are in no way trained to discern the software's integrity and are instructed to do little more than factory reset it. The end
I cant speak for the corporate locations but our exchanged phones would be sent at the end of each month to some tertiary company that refurbishes the phones. Even if HTC wanted to send agents with laptops out to check on all the HBOOTs and Roots, they would have to do it at a store level, or next up, the refurb centers; at which point these phones are out of your hands and theres not a whole lot they could possibly do to trace it back to you.
tl;dr
Do not worry, play it cool
PS:
And if they dont want to swap it out within your 14 days (30 if youre in CA), dial customer care right there and tell em youre at a store and they wont do the exchange; the CC rep will put his indignant face on and harass the rep at the store, making threats to file complaints and whatnot.
PPS:
I remember instances where the 1.6 OTA was bricking phones, and if i remember correctly an update just rolled out recently.
(probably a soft brick that could have easily been resolved with some fastboot shenanigans, but i didnt care enough to install adb+fastboot on 3 computers)
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Wow thanks for the information thats helpful... I am not saying I am going to brick my phone and try it out but I will definately remember this when a hinge breaks or something
N31N said:
Hi, i worked for a tmobile licensed retailer for a year and continue to have contacts within corporate locations as well as other licensees and the truth is as follows:
The employees don't care a whole lot to see if the software is rooted or not, more often than not, a fistful of people have heard of rooting but dont know exactly how to root or what it means, and a smaller fistful are people like myself.
If youre terribly worried, just put on the stock boot animation or flash it to stock (ish) rom. If its a brick, its a brick, just dont walk in announcing that its something you did; they should swap it out there and then with a minimum of questions asked. If they ask what happened, you dont know. We're only instructed to check the water damage stickers and warranty voiding screw stickers just to make sure its not user error, we were/are in no way trained to discern the software's integrity and are instructed to do little more than factory reset it. The end
I cant speak for the corporate locations but our exchanged phones would be sent at the end of each month to some tertiary company that refurbishes the phones. Even if HTC wanted to send agents with laptops out to check on all the HBOOTs and Roots, they would have to do it at a store level, or next up, the refurb centers; at which point these phones are out of your hands and theres not a whole lot they could possibly do to trace it back to you.
tl;dr
Do not worry, play it cool
PS:
And if they dont want to swap it out within your 14 days (30 if youre in CA), dial customer care right there and tell em youre at a store and they wont do the exchange; the CC rep will put his indignant face on and harass the rep at the store, making threats to file complaints and whatnot.
PPS:
I remember instances where the 1.6 OTA was bricking phones, and if i remember correctly an update just rolled out recently.
(probably a soft brick that could have easily been resolved with some fastboot shenanigans, but i didnt care enough to install adb+fastboot on 3 computers)
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Why thank you sir for taking the time to post this. It's nice to have some first hand information on this. Gave me peace of mind.
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N31N said:
Hi, i worked for a tmobile licensed retailer for a year and continue to have contacts within corporate locations as well as other licensees and the truth is as follows:
The employees don't care a whole lot to see if the software is rooted or not, more often than not, a fistful of people have heard of rooting but dont know exactly how to root or what it means, and a smaller fistful are people like myself.
If youre terribly worried, just put on the stock boot animation or flash it to stock (ish) rom. If its a brick, its a brick, just dont walk in announcing that its something you did; they should swap it out there and then with a minimum of questions asked. If they ask what happened, you dont know. We're only instructed to check the water damage stickers and warranty voiding screw stickers just to make sure its not user error, we were/are in no way trained to discern the software's integrity and are instructed to do little more than factory reset it. The end
I cant speak for the corporate locations but our exchanged phones would be sent at the end of each month to some tertiary company that refurbishes the phones. Even if HTC wanted to send agents with laptops out to check on all the HBOOTs and Roots, they would have to do it at a store level, or next up, the refurb centers; at which point these phones are out of your hands and theres not a whole lot they could possibly do to trace it back to you.
tl;dr
Do not worry, play it cool
PS:
And if they dont want to swap it out within your 14 days (30 if youre in CA), dial customer care right there and tell em youre at a store and they wont do the exchange; the CC rep will put his indignant face on and harass the rep at the store, making threats to file complaints and whatnot.
PPS:
I remember instances where the 1.6 OTA was bricking phones, and if i remember correctly an update just rolled out recently.
(probably a soft brick that could have easily been resolved with some fastboot shenanigans, but i didnt care enough to install adb+fastboot on 3 computers)
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This is one of the most intelligent and complete posts I have had the pleasure to read. My logic and previous experience told me the same thing, but to have a person with "better than first-hand" experience confirm my beliefs is huge.
Kudos for taking your time to give back to the community
N31N said:
Hi, i worked for a tmobile licensed retailer for a year and continue to have contacts within corporate locations as well as other licensees and the truth is as follows:
The employees don't care a whole lot to see if the software is rooted or not, more often than not, a fistful of people have heard of rooting but dont know exactly how to root or what it means, and a smaller fistful are people like myself.
If youre terribly worried, just put on the stock boot animation or flash it to stock (ish) rom. If its a brick, its a brick, just dont walk in announcing that its something you did; they should swap it out there and then with a minimum of questions asked. If they ask what happened, you dont know. We're only instructed to check the water damage stickers and warranty voiding screw stickers just to make sure its not user error, we were/are in no way trained to discern the software's integrity and are instructed to do little more than factory reset it. The end
I cant speak for the corporate locations but our exchanged phones would be sent at the end of each month to some tertiary company that refurbishes the phones. Even if HTC wanted to send agents with laptops out to check on all the HBOOTs and Roots, they would have to do it at a store level, or next up, the refurb centers; at which point these phones are out of your hands and theres not a whole lot they could possibly do to trace it back to you.
tl;dr
Do not worry, play it cool
PS:
And if they dont want to swap it out within your 14 days (30 if youre in CA), dial customer care right there and tell em youre at a store and they wont do the exchange; the CC rep will put his indignant face on and harass the rep at the store, making threats to file complaints and whatnot.
PPS:
I remember instances where the 1.6 OTA was bricking phones, and if i remember correctly an update just rolled out recently.
(probably a soft brick that could have easily been resolved with some fastboot shenanigans, but i didnt care enough to install adb+fastboot on 3 computers)
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Can confirm the same will happen at a corporate store. Especially if you go with the same person who sold it to you. They will be more worried about you canceling what you did because you will mess with their money lol.
So I just sold my girlfriends fascinate on ebay. I shipped a few days ago and just got this message from the buyer.
Thanks for the fast shipping. damn it sucks to say, but i went to have the phone activated at the verizon store. they not only said it can't be activated because its on the reported stolen list, but they confiscated it. i didnt know it couldnt be used, it should of never been listed. anyways, if you didnt know this either, no hard feelings. i wont contact ebay or paypal if you refund my payment right away so i can buy another one.
I have a good feeling that this a POS trying to scam me. I'm looking for some advice on how to respond to this issue. By the way the phone is not stolen in any way shape or form. I know this is kind of off topic but I figured this would be a good place to receive some advice.
Uh yea. I'd say it's a scam
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ajd88 said:
So I just sold my girlfriends fascinate on ebay. I shipped a few days ago and just got this message from the buyer.
Thanks for the fast shipping. damn it sucks to say, but i went to have the phone activated at the verizon store. they not only said it can't be activated because its on the reported stolen list, but they confiscated it. i didnt know it couldnt be used, it should of never been listed. anyways, if you didnt know this either, no hard feelings. i wont contact ebay or paypal if you refund my payment right away so i can buy another one.
I have a good feeling that this a POS trying to scam me. I'm looking for some advice on how to respond to this issue. By the way the phone is not stolen in any way shape or form. I know this is kind of off topic but I figured this would be a good place to receive some advice.
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Did he verify the ESN prior to buying the phone? If not, its his fault and there is nothing he can do. Explain the situation to ebay and open a dispute.
He did not verify esn. I just thought it was strange that he would be trying to pull this when he has a 98.6% positive feedback rating with over 2000 transactions.
It will be easier if you have the device ID. Contact Verizon and get paper work from them showing the device has a clean ESN. This will only work if you are either still under contract or left verizon when your contract was finished. If you got out of the contract via the fee changes the esn will be bad.
Assuming the Esn is clean once you have the paperwork that says its clean you just tell the buyer that you have evidence of a clean ESN and that you will fight any dispute. PayPal and EBay see these shady people alot and know what to look for.
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Yeah man I wouldn't trust this.
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For sure contact Verizon if you can and verify your ESN is good. I have a feeling that this is indeed a scam.
Moderated from my HTC G2.
Think k40 has a point. On what terms did you leave verizon, or at least deactivate the phone?
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MattRussNC said:
Think k40 has a point. On what terms did you leave verizon, or at least deactivate the phone?
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She used an upgrade. I should be able to get all the right info still. I sent the guy a few messages. I'm just waiting on a response before I call Verizon.
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She used an upgrade. I should be able to get all the right info still. I sent the guy a few messages. I'm just waiting on a response before I call Verizon.
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The only way he is Intitled to a refund is if he pays shipping and returns it to you
Even if he files a complaint he will have to show proof that he sent it back
So I would not worry to much about it
If he does send one back make Damn sure it is yours and has your esn
eBay has policies in place to protect you and the never do anything out of eBay
And you may be wise to report it to them right away and let them know what is going on This Kind of Deal is a No No you were asked outside of eBay
Sounds like a scam to me. Good luck.
I was just talking to a buddy of mine that works at verizon and he told me they would only inform you if its on the lost or stolen list, they will not confiscate it sounds like a big scam
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Does smell like a scam close to the sme thing happend to me with a video card
Seen plenty of phones come in with bad esn's. Not once did we or were we authorized to take possesion of the device
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Also, everyone be careful even letting a potential customer check the esn. When I was trying to sell my blackberry many scammers tried to get at mine. Don't give it to them! They can do a fake activation put insurance on it and claim it lost/stolen.. at that point your esn goes bad and they receive a phone from insurion in the mail.. One scammer even tried to get me to take a photo of the back of the phone with the battery out (where the esn is written) under the pretense he was looking to see if it worked on gsm.. Duh its a world phone... Good luck man. From my experience selling on ebay is nothing but headache.
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Make sure you move your money out from paypal and un-link any connected bank accounts. The guy will just call his CC company and dispute the charge. Paypal will take your money and you'll be SOL no matter how much evidence your have. Paypal's "protection" is **** and they'll screw you over in a heartbeat.
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Make sure you move your money out from paypal and un-link any connected bank accounts. The guy will just call his CC company and dispute the charge. Paypal will take your money and you'll be SOL no matter how much evidence your have. Paypal's "protection" is **** and they'll screw you over in a heartbeat.
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That's a scam, no doubt about it. Don't let the feedback rating fool you, because it could be a legitimate account that got compromised. The only way they could win a dispute with eBay is if they can provide proof that the ESN was bad. If you know the ESN was good, then there's no way they could possibly provide that proof.
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neh4pres said:
They can do a fake activation put insurance on it and claim it lost/stolen.. at that point your esn goes bad and they receive a phone from insurion in the mail..
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Im not so sure about that, I just tryed to have them put insurance on a fascinate I bought used and they said you can only put it on if you bought it from them.
Definite scam. As stated before, they won't confiscate the device. It's not their right to.
Unlike with media, you actually own a phone, rather than license it (which is why software, music, and videos can actually be confiscated). For them to take the phone from the buyer would be theft.
Call Verizon, have them pull the ESN from the old phone for you and have them verify that it is good. You should also be able to have them verify if it's been activated or not.
The way the systems work these days, I'm surprised someone would actually try and pull a scam like this one. It's way too easy to verify that they're full of it.
Hi All....I shattered my screen last night on the swings with my kid..
Anyways, I have the best buy geek squad protection plan and they cover accidental damage.
The thing is, I am unlocked, rooted, CM7'nd...
Im wondering if my warranty will be void once I bring it in for unlocked BL?
What do you think the chances of my warranty becoming void is?
Maybe the better alternative would be to replace the screen myself and save the warranty for when I REALLY need it? (for something that I can't fix myself maybe)...
Im thinking that they might still fix it, but cancel the remainder of my warranty because of the BL being unlocked..
Thanks.
I don't think the protection plan that you actually spent money on will be void. Also, based on my own experience, people who work at these stores have no idea how to identify an unlocked phone, so you can fool them easily if you flash a stock rom before sending it in.
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Thanks for your response...
With Best Buy Geek Squad, they send it in to Moto for repair (per the sales guy).
Also, my BOOTLOADER is unlocked, therefore when I boot my phone it states "Unlocked" across the top... I think that alone voids any warranty's right?
I would reread the protection plan. If it plainly states accidental with no fine print for them to easily back out of it, I recommend backing out on your phone. With a truck.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
Why? So I can get an all brand new one? I think they still have to send it in to Motorola technically "for review"
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Why? So I can get an all brand new one? I think they still have to send it in to Motorola technically "for review"
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Good luck reviewing a phone that has a car run over it.
Yea I'd recommend breaking the screen even more so they can't see the unlocked message when they boot it up lol.
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Burn a few papers and give them to the warranty guys saying that you burnt it.
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Hate to be a mood killer but when you unlocked your bootloader it clearly stated that it will void your warranty... if you can't handle your responsibility of breaking your phone maybe you shouldn't have taken the chance... its like building your house in a flood zone and trying to collect flood insurance when it happens... its people like you that drive up the cost of insurance for those that actually are "grown up" enough to accept the consequences... IMHO
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When i got my insurance plan I asked if it would cover me after I unlocked the bootloader and the at&t rep said yes. Dunno about best buy though.
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I had to send my unlocked phone to attention for warranty exchange. I flashed 1.83 then did the update to gb through the PC from motos site. It removed the unlock message for me. Might be worth a try for you. Took like a hour or more to do the update though.
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Hey all. Don"t know why I named that subject that way, but i wanted to know if say I lost my phone and I told tmobile I lost my phone and I got another phone due to insurance.. from what they told me even if I found the lost phone after i got another phone from them they can some how do something from their end and make the phone I found useless..is this true and how can they do this?
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Hey all. Don"t know why I named that subject that way, but i wanted to know if say I lost my phone and I told tmobile I lost my phone and I got another phone due to insurance.. from what they told me even if I found the lost phone after i got another phone from them they can some how do something from their end and make the phone I found useless..is this true and how can they do this?
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If you are wanting to do what i think you are wanting to do it's insurance fraud. it's illegal and unlawful .
Each phone has a IMEI (GSM phones) number or a ESN (CDMA) number. They can tell all of the phones that are connected to their towers via the IMEI numbers. They can block certain IMEI numbers from using their towers.
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If you are wanting to do what i think you are wanting to do it's insurance fraud. it's illegal and unlawful .
Each phone has a IMEI (GSM phones) number or a ESN (CDMA) number. They can tell all of the phones that are connected to their towers via the IMEI numbers. They can block certain IMEI numbers from using their towers.
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Ooh no thats not my intentions, I actually spoke to them and I had a different bill I wanted to know if it's because my insurance somehow affected the bill or something else so that brought me to asking them what exactly is the difference between manufacturers warranty and insurance coverage on ky phone..I just wanted to know how they can render your phone useless even if reported stolen, lost it damaged... Thanks....
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Warranty is by HTC, they cover software and hardware issues for free. Tmobile's insurance coverage extends the warranty if necessary, this is free.
Insurance is through asurion (spelling?) They cover your phone for physical damage to lost phones. Physical damage besides water is like $70-80. Lost and water damage is $130.
Forgot to add, if you find your old phone you're suppose to return them one of the phones
I forget which. They will not refund you the 130. Honestly, "you never found your old phone." I know this may be shunned upon but really... They keep your 130 and you give them back a phone.. Smh
Only cdma networks has been known to lock your phone. It is much harder for gsm networks because they have to lock your Sim (I think) and they're too lazy to do so, not that they won't though.
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Thanks for the information...
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