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$79 Hero Refurb/Preowned (no contract)

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I was just coming to post this.
I may buy one or two just to root and mess around with.
Worth a shot anyways.

It seems a deal! Better than the one I brought from craigslist, paid $100 without sdcard and headset.
BTW, I don't have to activate it, right?

I'm thinking about getting one. I dropped my Hero last week and scratched it up pretty badly (I was going to swap housing, but I don't want to bother with that). I'd use the refurb as my daily, with my other Hero as a testing device

cwzkevin said:
It seems a deal! Better than the one I brought from craigslist, paid $100 without sdcard and headset.
BTW, I don't have to activate it, right?
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I just ordered one. I had the option to have it pre-activated but I chose not to do that. I'm trying to get my husband on the Android bandwagon and this was a cheap way to do it. (He's currently in our family plan with a BB but wants to jump ship to ATT and Iphone. ugh, I know right?) If he hates it, I have a backup Hero and I did not have to extend my contract.

ordering mine tomorrow, went from a htc vogue with android hacked on to it, to a blackberry curve and now to an htc hero till my upgrade kicks in, never again shall i upgrade to a blackberry....piece of crap

looks like they must have sold out of the refurb heroes... :/

sadly wasn't able to order my phone that night due to mail holiday keeping me from getting my debit card on time but called sprint and was told they would have them back in stock on thursday

Where do you click to see a refurbished model?

oOMavrikOo said:
Where do you click to see a refurbished model?
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They're currently out of stock, but according to the post above you, Sprint should have them back in stock by tomorrow.

BlaqkAudio said:
They're currently out of stock, but according to the post above you, Sprint should have them back in stock by tomorrow.
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i emailed their customer support and im waiting for respond, ill keep you guys updated

I looked yesterday and today and could not find any Refurb'ed Heros, there were some others. Wish I had seen this earlier, would have been nice to get one for my daughter.

yeah i checked into it again, won't have any for a while :/ i suggest you look into ebay if you want to try, alot of reliable sellers.

Keep looking... it's definitely worth doing.
Mine came in a Sprint OEM "Certified Pre-owned" box, packaged as if it were new. The only thing missing was an SD card (heck, it would be just 2Gb which is worthless anyhow) and a printed full manual. The phone looks brand new, except for one minor flaw--a tiny dent on the speaker grille. Otherwise, you wouldn't know this was refurbished.
The battery is in a small plastic bag with a sticker closure. It was not charged, so the phone required the full charging time to get going.

i found some from ebay that were bought up from sprint by bestbuy.

I just looked on eBay for a private party selling a Hero. I hate buying from the jerks too lazy to post real pictures of the product. I'm not buying a new phone, so why would I ever buy anything without being able see exactly what I'm really getting?
Anyhoots I won an auction for one the guy says is 4 months old for $133. Just watched for auction ending in a few minutes that fit what I wanted, placed my bid, 10 minutes later I had won.
Not refurbished, and more than $79, but I'm sure my daughter will love it.

Nice job, sadly my paypal account is locked because i forgot about it and never put in my information, i went looking for people selling and accepting non paypal purchases, i ends tomorrow so hopefully i win, it's refurbished.

Here you go guys,
http://www.cowboom.com/search/results.cfm?keywords=htc+hero
should be about 11 up, most are bids but 2 of em can be bought directly and shipped out.

Asurion will <not> cover nexus one purchased through developer program

I am posting a new thread because the other related threads were misleading at best and I searched high and low for this info and finally took a chance to confirm it.
When I lost my nexus at the beginning of the month, Asurion told me they would not replace it, my only choice was a vibrant.
I tried the MT4G for this month (CA has 30 day remorse) and prefer the N1.
Called again and told them the last info I could find from August was that N1 was available from google through the developer program. I could not find any answer to the question "Is the Nexus One really still available?"
I spent the $25 to join the developer program and the answer is "YES"
I can order up to 10 at full retail.
Of course, if this were uninsured, I would just buy one off the street and I will drop the insurance because it has been a royal waste of time, but as soon as I scrape up an extra $600 (because it will likely take a while for Asurion to reimburse me), I will get it.
I went all the way through the purchase process up to the place order button, so it looks like there is no backorder or anything.
It appears the only requirement to join the developer program is a google account (can be an apps account but only certain kinds) and $25.
Edit - Fockers backed out on my "deal" only offering POS vibrant. certainly not same capability or features as N1.

Fail to see how this indicates that Asurion will cover your new N1... How about we wait and see what happens in the end.

daijizai said:
Fail to see how this indicates that Asurion will cover your new N1... How about we wait and see what happens in the end.
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They will reimburse you up to the retail value of the phone, minus deductible, if you don't wish to use one of the options they provide you. If you want to spend the $ to join as a developer, the OP is right - they will cover you.

so are you saying they will only offer the vibrant and not the mytouch 4g?

The OP is saying that he will pony up $600 out of his pocket for a new Nexus One, which will then be reimbursed by Asurion, minus $140 deductible.

hhmm.
1. At what point can the insurance be added?
I bought my Nexus when it came out earlier this year.
I am not a developer, just a damned happy user.
2. At what point can I pay the $25 developer fee?
T-Mobile told me that they would NOT insure my Nexus cause, because I didn't have insurance on my previous phone (G1), and also because I didn't but it through them.
I really dont NEED the insurance. Jeez, I've never even dropped my Nexus. It's still pristine
But I'd rather have it and not need it ... than to need it and not have it.

When I bought my phone from Google, I called T-mobile when I recieved it and put insurance on it.

OrganizedFellow said:
hhmm.
1. At what point can the insurance be added?
I bought my Nexus when it came out earlier this year.
I am not a developer, just a damned happy user.
2. At what point can I pay the $25 developer fee?
T-Mobile told me that they would NOT insure my Nexus cause, because I didn't have insurance on my previous phone (G1), and also because I didn't but it through them.
I really dont NEED the insurance. Jeez, I've never even dropped my Nexus. It's still pristine
But I'd rather have it and not need it ... than to need it and not have it.
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1. If I remember correctly policy says within 30 days, but I would call them anyways as they still might. When I got mine they wanted to physically see the phone first, just to make sure they weren't insuring air or an already broken phone. Made sense since I didn't buy it from T-Mo they couldn't just look it up. Bought mine on launch day, and had ins. by the end of the week. $140 deduct is way cheaper than $579 again. It did take a week to get everyone on the same page (Asurian and T-Mo) since the phone was so fresh it wasn't in any of their published list of phones yet.
2. Anytime. It's just to register as a developer. If you never buy a phone or make an app im sure Google is happy to keep your $25. Just buy the phone whenever you're ready.
I got the insurance because warranties are for *ussies. I like to void them (XBMC, DD-Wrt, cars, etc) and planned to with my Nexus as well. Since warranties are intended to only ever cover manufacturer defects, not user error, if I bricked it or fried it it's insured. Look into it, and if you can get it do it. It's only like $4.95 a month. And you're right: If you don't have it, you'll need it. And if you have it, you wont need it.
And don't fear dropping it, I have. Too many times. Almost shed a tear the first time. Til I realized this thing is so damn-well built, I have but only 3 scratches. And it has taken a couple of ugly falls.

marquez1369 said:
so are you saying they will only offer the vibrant and not the mytouch 4g?
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Yes, thats what they did to me.
player911 said:
The OP is saying that he will pony up $600 out of his pocket for a new Nexus One, which will then be reimbursed by Asurion, minus $140 deductible.
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They didn't let me take this path and I called 3 times talked to different people. In the final call, I said I'd prefer a G2 since it is very similar amd this very nice/polite guy went to the supervisor (so he said) and 10 mins he came back and said they woudlnt do it bcause the G2 has a keyboard and the N1 doesn't. The G2 covers the G1 he said.
So, I have now a vibrant which I am starting to like except for the GPS which is worth &^#$. However the Vibrant experience made me decide to get a Nexus S when it comes out (GPS fixed-hopefully, camera flash, 2.3, SAMOLED, etc etc).
Messing with the vibrant firmware is a tricky road though.
Funny thing, I bought a G2 and disliked it to death (except the HSDPA+), returned it in five days, tried an HD7 and settled on the Vibrant at the end.

marquez1369 said:
so are you saying they will only offer the vibrant and not the mytouch 4g?
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That is correct at this time. I found someone to lend me the extra $500 and called asurion to make sure I had the process right and fockers said "we show reimbursement is denied for this phone because we can't go to the google site and buy it"
It's completely f'd up. The damn phone is available at retail for the same purpose it was originally sold (developer phone) and they are saying "nope".
My claim can stay open through late april, so I am going to hold on until I can find a way to force them to get me an N1 or get something better than a POS samsung vibrant.

negroplasty said:
They will reimburse you up to the retail value of the phone, minus deductible, if you don't wish to use one of the options they provide you. If you want to spend the $ to join as a developer, the OP is right - they will cover you.
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Looks like they are not going to let me do it without a fight. I have a decent loaner phone so I am not in a huge hurry.
Has anyone had success getting asurion to cover an N1 purchased from anywhere besides google's website?
This seems like typical insurance ripoff crap. I think I will have to consider squaretrade or one of the other "write a check" type providers for my next phone. I sure won't do assurion anymore unless it is just until I get another policy in place.

wonder if they'll offer the nexus s as a replacement instead of the vibrant/G2

resinous said:
wonder if they'll offer the nexus s as a replacement instead of the vibrant/G2
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Almost certainly not. They don't even offer the G2, only the POS vibrant.
About two weeks before my claim, they changed the way they work with T-Mobile.
They only authorize phones that T-Mobile sells and T-Mobile ships out the replacement handsets from their own warehouse.
This doesn't make sense for a phone that is unlocked and is just using T-Mobile service, but asurion seems to be saying they only provide replacement phones that are sold by carriers no matter what you think you are insuring with them.

resinous said:
wonder if they'll offer the nexus s as a replacement instead of the vibrant/G2
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LOL. Heck, Tmobile USA won't even be insuring the Nexus S!

675 Trip said:
Almost certainly not. They don't even offer the G2, only the POS vibrant.
They only authorize phones that T-Mobile sells and T-Mobile ships out the replacement handsets from their own warehouse.
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Yep. Happened to me, the first vibrant had a greenish screen so I cried foul but came with a *T-Mobile* 1yr warranty in the box, so they bounced me to TMO who shipped me a replacement one, refurb as well. Came from the same address and in the same box as the original.
They were nice during the whole very long process (seems I was lucky, I saw tons of people on the web claiming they were quite rude).
I'm not hating the Vibrant so far -although I tried to reject it in every possible way-. Has a nice screen and doesn't have the 3G issue I had until the last day and my GF's still has. Miss Froyo and an easy way to install roms. Has a freakin' awesome camera....

galaxys said:
LOL. Heck, Tmobile USA won't even be insuring the Nexus S!
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shame. wow not even allowing people to replace with a G2

How much are Vibrants going for on Ebay? Perhaps get the Vibrant and sell it. Cash money toward a Nexus
OR
Just call can keep complaining. Say you were instructed to buy the phone and get reimbursed. Tell them you "now" have the phone and are awaiting reimbursement.
ELSE
Tell them you want all of the money you paid to them refunded since they are running a fraudulent scam of a business.
I just went through something like this (not exactly) with Asurion. You pay $5 a month. I had a Motorola Cliq and it was junk. Regardless I smashed it. The deductible was $120. wtf. I could buy a new one for less as my line was eligible for an upgrade.
Needless to say I purchased a MyTouch 3G Slide, in which case my GF left 4 days later. Moral of the story: Don't buy chicks phones and don't pay for Asurion crap. I broke the motorola on accident btw.

bought a brand new N1 the day google announced the NS and right away i called Asurion and added the the insurance.

GHOST99K said:
bought a brand new N1 the day google announced the NS and right away i called Asurion and added the the insurance.
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Exactly and if you try to make a claim, they will offer you a Samsung Vibrant AND THAT'S IT!
I need to find my actual contract to see if there is any fine print I can take advantage of. Online I read something in one policy that they would replace it with a device with the same capabilities. I am not sure that is in mine.
You're better off buying a squaretrade policy, it looks like, and just holding the assurion policy for the 30 day grace period before squaretrade takes effect. If you buy squaretrade same day as purchase, no waiting period.
If squaretrade can't fix or replace, they write you a check.

Received a refurbished phone to replace a phone with bad signal

I had an original Focus that got run over by a car and I had to get a new one using my insurance. I received that one a couple weeks ago. I called the insurance company because the new one had bad signal problems and I asked for another phone. I just received the new one and it's a refurbished. Is this normal policy? I paid $200. for my original Focus and I'm not too happy getting a refurbished model.
Are they not making these anymore or are they having problems with the new ones?They never told me they were sending me a refurbished. I'm just wondering if anyone here has received a refurbished for replacement?

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What does your policy say? The ones I have seen, and I think the warranty terms as well, allow for refurbished phones.

if you gripe to the right people you should be able to get a new one.... it might take going to a few stores and talking to the right manager..

The signal is better so far than the old one, at least is doesn't lose calls all the time. It looks in good shape too but it's hard accepting a refurb being that I paid $200 for this thing.
I'll have to look at my contract as it applies to what they can give me but on the phone she didn't mention a refurb as a possibility. She only said a new samsung or a phone of equal quality. I'm not sure how a refurb is of equal quality to a brand new phone. I'll keep this for a few days to see how it works out. Thanks for the replys.

This is for ATT, my understading it was on suposed to $50 for replacement. I asked when I purchased the insurance thru ATT. Did they feed me a load of BS?
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Nothing wrong with a refurb so long as it carries a warrenty, has no scratches, and is not full of ear wax ! Sometimes you are better off with a refurb as it's been fully tested or any potential known issues are fixed.
But yes, always nice to get one fresh new one for sure.

ktdan1 said:
This is for ATT, my understading it was on suposed to $50 for replacement. I asked when I purchased the insurance thru ATT. Did they feed me a load of BS?
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They do replace for $50, with a refurb. I've never had insurance with any carrier that offered a brand new phone. The refurbs are just as good, in fact probably tested even better than new ones.

wspaw said:
They do replace for $50, with a refurb. I've never had insurance with any carrier that offered a brand new phone. The refurbs are just as good, in fact probably tested even better than new ones.
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I did receive a new phone for my replacement the first time with AT&T. When I sent that one back because the signal sucked they sent me a refurb. This one is having issues also, the signal still sucks, the tiles seem to move all by themselves randomly and the phone freezes up. I've never seen tiles just move on their own like that, they just rearrange themselves into different locations, and the phone usually freezes up after that.
I have to stop buying new crap, I need to let someone else be the Guinea pig.

ktdan1 said:
This is for ATT, my understading it was on suposed to $50 for replacement. I asked when I purchased the insurance thru ATT. Did they feed me a load of BS?
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pretty much in as legal a way as they could... ive found most (not all) cell salesmen are like used car salesmen...they will say anything to make a sale... and that ins add on made him a nice bonus....

kawgirlval69 said:
pretty much in as legal a way as they could... ive found most (not all) cell salesmen are like used car salesmen...they will say anything to make a sale... and that ins add on made him a nice bonus....
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I tend to agree with you on that one, "A bunch of used car salesman". I have been with ATT for quite some time and I do my reserch but $50 for a replacement was less than my tilt2. I was a bit surprised and pleased.
Just a note my Focus has been running like a charm since day one, I was lucky enought to have a capable 16GB MCSD card out of the gate.
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where to sell hd2's?

other than ebay please, i have two nib refurbished hd2's, one nib new, and one i took apart to replace the screen and never taped it back in, i always use it for dev and testing. any idea's where i can sell these things other than an auction?
i wish xda had a for sale section!!!

Try over at androidcentral.com in the marketplace forum.
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If You do not want to sell by auction you always can sell it as "buy it now" item with fixed price. eBay+PayPal are the simplest and the most secure way to sell anything, you're always secured from fraud and scams. Selling a thing through a forum section isn't as secure, correct me if I'm not right.

ws6nightcat said:
other than ebay please, i have two nib refurbished hd2's, one nib new, and one i took apart to replace the screen and never taped it back in, i always use it for dev and testing. any idea's where i can sell these things other than an auction?
i wish xda had a for sale section!!!
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I've been looking for an hd2 phone, how much do you want for it?

ws6nightcat said:
other than ebay please, i have two nib refurbished hd2's, one nib new, and one i took apart to replace the screen and never taped it back in, i always use it for dev and testing. any idea's where i can sell these things other than an auction?
i wish xda had a for sale section!!!
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OK, I gotta ask why an AT&T user has HD2s that only run on TMO? Or are they international/telstra?
Anyway, Ebay is the safest for both buyer and seller. Just make sure that you ship only to a verified address.
I have traded in the marketplace forum here on XDA, but there have also been a number of scams there.

i have att and tmous i just have waaaay too many electronics floating around so i think it's time to start getting rid of them and i was hoping to not post 30 auctions on ebay, it takes forever. but i guess that's the best way to go. thank you guys.
i should probably update my profile

ws6nightcat said:
i have att and tmous i just have waaaay too many electronics floating around so i think it's time to start getting rid of them and i was hoping to not post 30 auctions on ebay, it takes forever. but i guess that's the best way to go. thank you guys.
i should probably update my profile
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Wait, you have AT&T AND TMOUS? How many phones does one need?

you can do craigslist. it doesn't provide safety like amazon or what but a lot of people use it and you meet your buyer face to face. just bring a friend with you. I bought my HD2 off craigslist by trading at tmobile motorola cliq sometimes you find good deals like that from people who don't know better haha
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ws6nightcat said:
i have att and tmous i just have waaaay too many electronics floating around so i think it's time to start getting rid of them and i was hoping to not post 30 auctions on ebay, it takes forever. but i guess that's the best way to go. thank you guys.
i should probably update my profile
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You don't want to sell it to me? At least tell me what your ebay username is so i can look you up

What is the price??
I just want to know

Anyone interested in a rooted Evo?

I'm selling my wife's rooted Evo 4g. It has MikG2.2 loaded now. The problem is that she dropped it with the charger attached and it broke the usb/charger port off the mother board. With a charged battery, the phone works great. I have a new charger port, but don't have the tools to attach it. If anyone is interested, I'm asking $100 plus shipping. Though I would offer it here before I put it on Ebay. Contact me via email at [email protected] if interested.

surprised no one has taken the offer yet. lol. however, not sure if you can get 100 bucks. well. then again... it's rooted. so idk. Right now I think the evo is the best phone with sprint... the Evo 3D beeps.
So no one here has skills? lol. however, when the phone is taken apart if the new owner takes it apart.... DON'T BREAK off the antenna. recall someone doing that. If someone has that 3500 battery or maybe two of those... they wouldn't have to worry about charging it. all they'd have to do is swap the battery every 2 days.

Oh well, guess I'll throw it on Ebay tonight. I've already replaced her phone with another Evo and am just waiting on root for 2.3.3 now. If anyone it interested let me know by tonight or it's off to Ebay. Thanks for looking everyone.

You could always take it to Best Buy or something and see what they'll give you for a trade-in. Their online estimator says even a poor condition Evo will get you a $73 gift card.

SilverZero said:
You could always take it to Best Buy or something and see what they'll give you for a trade-in. Their online estimator says even a poor condition Evo will get you a $73 gift card.
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This is probably your best bet. Asking $100 for a broken phone is probably not going to yield a lot of responses.
EDIT: Then again, I've sold a lot of broken/semi-working electronics on eBay for far more than I would have guessed it would sell for, so perhaps you'll get lucky.

I'll trade you my unrooted 2.3.3 Evo that has no scratches or marks on it.

decayer177 said:
I'll trade you my unrooted 2.3.3 Evo that has no scratches or marks on it.
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Hey decayer177, I just sent you a private message about this. Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.