Did You Buy Insurance for Your S3?

[MikeekiM]

Did you purchase the Verizon Total Equipment Coverage for your S3?

What is your general take on this plan (and associated cost)?

I am thinking about covering my 14 YO son's phone...but I have never purchased coverage on my personal phones (and have never experienced an "event" that made me regret passing on the coverage)...

 

[iluvmay]

I've always bought the coverage...I've had to take advantage of the coverage several times with my rouge...dropping it and breaking the screen, water damage and the like. That was before the smart phone era and nice cases. One side of the spectrum is super careful adults and the other is careless kids. All yourself this ? do you see the phone getting dropped wet or stolen...then get the coverage. If not...save the 7 bucks and spend it on a case, the more expensive the safer I'd assume.

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[dpham00]

No, I have 5 4G phones right now, so even if the gs3 goes bad, I can still fall back on one of my other HD 4GLTE smartphones.

With regard to insurance, it depends on how often you drop or lose or otherwise damage the phone. I have had cell service since the 90s and have 4 lines now and have never had a phone cracked/damaged/lost. I have had phones replaced under warranty. I purchased the gs3 on my AMEX, which adds 1 year warranty to the phone. Granted, I would only get what I paid for the phone, but in a year, I can buy a cpo or used phone probably for about what I paid plus the $100 deductible, assuming that I didn't have 5 4G phones now.

 

[cjsmoove]

YES ZIIR

 

[razortaz18]

I bought Best Buy's "Geek Squad Black Tie Protection" and their "Buy Back" plan. I'm covered.

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S III

 

[ColdBrew]

I carry it on all my smart phones. And if I had a teenager with a smartphone I would FOR SURE care it on theirs. My brother in law (teenager) has destroyed like 3 of his (dropped them, washed them, etc)

And my thought it is don't want to spend $650 to replace the phone.

 

[Idelgado782]

I always add the insurance. I honestly can't tell you when was the last time I needed to use it, however like others have said it's worth the piece of mind to me. I have the tec through Verizon because it covers everything.

Sent from a sexy a** Galaxy S III

 

[my3chis]

I bought Best Buy's "Geek Squad Black Tie Protection" and their "Buy Back" plan. I'm covered.

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S III

That's what I did this time. Hope I don't need it but after having issues with my last 2 phones dying right after factory warranty ran out (no more HTC for me) I decided for it this time.

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[petschska]

No insurance here. With a large deductible and the monthly rates you can nearly afford a new phone during every 2 year period. Plus if it does break, you can upgrade to the newest model instead of receiving a refurbished replacement. It was affordable 6 years ago but not anymore imho.

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[sayheysarah]

I bought insurance. It was 10 bucks a month with best buy. No deductible. And I do have a habit of dropping phones and cracking screens. It was worth it for me.

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[scorpiodsu]

Rarely by any coverage. If anything u get a square trade plan for like 70 bucks. It thing is that it doesn't cover theft but good for everything else and transferable when I sell the phone or cancel it and get some money back.

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[GoBigRed79]

If I was prone to breaking phones I might carry it but honestly I think it is a waste. Between the cost of the plan and the deductible it really is not just worth it for me and I don't have a problem picking up a used one off ebay or craigslist if needed.

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[ansextra]

Many years ago I had an ORIGINAL Razr and it decided to go swimming with me in the ocean. Somehow it forgot to remind me that it was in my bathing suit pocket. I had to pay full price to replace it. I've had insurance ever since. Kaka happens.

 

[stevo11]

I usually have it for the first year of owning the phone. Kind of like owning a car, you want comprehensive for the brand new car but start to taper down the coverage as it gets older. Same philosophy here.

 

[Fillyo]

I have insurance on all 3 of my devices, my plan is so cheap, I figure I would cover ourselves.

 

[Joe the Insider]

I always use TEC through Verizon.

 

[Shotine]

Havent had insureance since they raised it from the old $6 a month plan, my otterbox is my insurance if something happens i can always go back to my htc thunderbolt

 

[rushmore]

Turns out, it is a connected event.

Web searches have led me to believe that My Gmail was hacked by vanigo.com who sent spam to my contacts and then deleted all my contacts.

Google says it cant help recover the contacts. Thats absurd. Even Microsoft helped recover contacts of all its users that had the problem on Hotmail: Lost Contacts & Vanigo - Windows Live Help

I am enraged - had more than 1500 contacts - emails, phones, addresses. Moreover, I have a G1 phone so all my phone contacts (those 1500+) are gone too since G1 synchs contacts with Gmail.

I used to be a big Google advocate. Now I will boycott all Google products and start a Google hate group.

And before anybody jumps to claim that I wasn't careful and that I shouldn't blame Google, let me say this: my password is not a dictionary word, is not a name, is 10 characters long, is a combination of upper & lower case letters, digits and special characters, and was categorized as STRONG when I filled it in (the green almost filling the whole password strength bar). I do not use public computers and my computer is secured by CA, McAfee and Norton. My WiFi uses WPA encryption. All things considered, I am reasonably certain that I have taken adequate measures to protect myself (apart from backing up my cloud data).

I had been using gmail exclusively from my G1 phone for a few days when the breach occured - had not been using my laptop for anything at all. Also since for most people affected the breach seems to have happened at or around the same time period, it lends credence to the hypothesis that it's the cloud that was breached.

And don't you think it sucks that Microsoft, the company that we all have always thought of as having the suckiest support, is actually helping its users and Google is not Contacts & Address Book - Windows Live Help
Lost Contacts & Vanigo - Windows Live Help

Google's stubborn resistance to restoring the contacts is just annoying. All they need to do is restore the state to that on a particular date. I am sure they have this information at not one but hundreds of servers - gmail, gtalk, g1, backups, caches, etc. What's the point of a backup if you cant restore it?


Also, check out: SOS: All G1, Gmail, Gtalk contacts disappeared. Please help! - Google Mobile Help

Sorry, wrong thread. Not sure how happened...

 

[rushmore]

I hope that this helps some people!

Android Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail | Android Central

That is weird. I have tried to post two times and each time was quoting from the correct post, but still ended up in wrong post.

 

[rushmore]

Yes. The BB buy back worked out great when going from the Razr to the GS3 32GB and did the buy back and insurance on this one too.