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backdown said:
Can you not buy insurance on a phone that you already own? If you can, why not buy it, wait a while and then have them replace the phone for 100?
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Sprint allows you to add the $7 insurance within 30 days of activating a phone.(* even used phones)
A local cell phone store does something like this.
I've seen them tell people $100 to fix any smart phone but they have to add insurance.
 
Unfortunately, some people mistake if you *can* do something with *should* you do it.

Sad to me that so many people cant seem to tell the difference. Thank you again for your post. Some of us appreciate your honesty.
 
haha many of my peers have no sense of personal responsibility and love to pass the buck, screwing everyone else.

I think some of you are making this repair out to be bigger than it is :)
 
centdukesfan said:
haha of course it is ripping off the insurance company. You are supposed to insure items before they break, not after, otherwise the business model is terribly stupid.
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If you have a 30 day window to insure any phone, and they do not ask you if the phone has any existing damage, then i do not see that as fraud. Now, if you tell them it has no damage to it and it does, then that is fraud. Fraud is lying, this is not lying.

braxx said:
Sprint allows you to add the $7 insurance within 30 days of activating a phone.(* even used phones)
A local cell phone store does something like this.
I've seen them tell people $100 to fix any smart phone but they have to add insurance.
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And it wouldn't be hard to get insurance on any phone, then. You should just have to switch phones with someone in your plan (or anyones for that matter), get the phone replaced, and then trade back. A bit shady..but it would work.

centdukesfan said:
haha many of my peers have no sense of personal responsibility and love to pass the buck, screwing everyone else.

I think some of you are making this repair out to be bigger than it is :)
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Its not a pass of personal responsibility, you broke the phone and you should get it fixed. If you pay for the insurance, then you should get it fixed by that. I am not making it out bigger than it is, im just stating that this is no where near fraud, as fraud is lying.
 
Centdukes, thanks for your sense of honesty.

backdown, I dont know how your logic operates, but
Waiting until you incur a loss before buying insurance, then claiming that the loss took place during the policy period is certainly insurance fraud. It does look like a 30 day loophole i'm sure people will take advantage of since Sprint does not require you to present the device before adding insurance, but most businesses of insurers do.
 
HTC SuperSonic Digitizer

looks like the digitizer is about 61 bucks a pop, but they require 3 to order. Not in stock right now. I may just buy all 3 and then sell them out on ebay or something...

Anyone else crack their screen and want to get in on it? Come onnnn you can admit it
 
centdukesfan said:
Getting insurance on a broken device is dishonest, even if its allowable.
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My kid broke a screen on a pocket cam I had, so I took it back to best buy (within 30 days) they gave me a new one and made me buy $35 2year insurance.

Were they dishonest?

It wasn't their fault my kid was stupid and I didn't have insurance they could have told me to send it back to the manufacture and pay to have the screen replaced.
 
No it is not necessarily fraud, see: COBRA. Who's to say that the 30 day "loophole" is a loophole anyway? The fact that you can add it is a selling point of the device and the insurance; if you take it and get it replaced, you will tend to keep insurance on the phone. They will make the money back both through that and through keeping you as a happy customer.
 
I am at work and didn't have a chance to read all of the replies, so someone may have already said this, but...

I am 99% sure Sprint Insurance replaces lost phones. If so, put insurance on the phone, wait a few days, and then throw your phone out into a really big open field. Now you have officially lost your phone....

Obviously I'm being sarcastic, but what I am really trying to say is that you can get replaced as a lost phone. Still cheating the insurance company to a degree, but better than anything else. Just a thought.

Peace,
BB

EDIT: I have insurance btw. Just saying.
 
None of you people are reading what he has to say. Even if he wanted to add insurance and go that route, he's still have to pay the $100 deductible, which will cost him more than the price of replacement glass.

I commend the OP for taking this all in stride. Sometimes isht does happen!
 
sailrace said:
None of you people are reading what he has to say. Even if he wanted to add insurance and go that route, he's still have to pay the $100 deductible, which will cost him more than the price of replacement glass.

I commend the OP for taking this all in stride. Sometimes isht does happen!
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I did read what he has to say... but for my $100 dollars I'd rather have a new phone no matter how old mine is. Maybe I'm the only person who thinks this way... but I highly doubt it.

On another note, I'm all for listening to this "we should follow company policy line". However, as a vibrant proponent of the open source and dev community, I feel that in general we are all for "sticking it to the man". Is it just this forum that is different? or what? Not trying to flame or start an argument, just curious as to why the general opinion on this board is support for the mega-corps.

thanks for any input,
BB
 
LOL, I've called insurance a few times telling them I've lost my phone & they replaced it :).
Did it with my SamSung Instinct. If you have 30 days just add it.. who cares?
 
braxx said:
I've seen them tell people $100 to fix any smart phone but they have to add insurance.
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That's right, it's like $7/month for insurance and to use it, it's $100 for the deductible. So it ends up being a LOT and in 1 year you've basically already paid for a new phone if you end up using insurance.
 
I can't really say much other then what my friend told me but he works for a manufacturing company with offices in Kowloon Hong Kong, he is my inside guy for everything on the cheap. He picks stuff up for me and mails it over to me in the USA.

Anyway I had emailed him an order from my EVO which attaches "Sent from HTC EVO" so the emails.

He replied and said AHH you got one of those huh? How you like it? I commented on my concern with the glass and he said one of his friends works for a company working on some high impact replacement glass for a few of the new touch phones, the EVO being one of them. No ETA but my guys never been wrong about stuff like that before so we will see.

He seemed to think they would start popping up on eBay etc soon though.
 
Roadblock said:
he said one of his friends works for a company working on some high impact replacement glass for a few of the new touch phones, the EVO being one of them. No ETA but my guys never been wrong about stuff like that before so we will see.

He seemed to think they would start popping up on eBay etc soon though.
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well thats good news! So i may even get an upgraded screen out of this! ;)
 
If you guys hear anything on a new screen/digitizer, please let me know!

I'm also not sure if I also cracked my LCD. There is a dark portion on it, but that could be from the glass... Thoughts?

i think the HD2 has the identical LCD
 
sagedil said:
Rough story and I do really feel your pain. But you seem to be taking it in stride and keeping it in perspective. Just know how much respect I have for that.
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You act like someone lost their life. In the end it's JUST A PHONE.
 
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