Warranty my old phone.. anyone know how? Unethical I know.

[jerseykat1]

OK I have a BB tour that works good but looks beat up, and I would like to warranty it. So I can sell it and get the most money I can for it. I believe I am still under warranty. Anyone know any tricks for this unethical method. Water damage is a giveaway.

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[ragnarokx]

OK I have a BB tour that works good but looks beat up, and I would like to warranty it. So I can sell it and get the most money I can for it. I believe I am still under warranty. Anyone know any tricks for this unethical method. Water damage is a giveaway.

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You mean insure it? Because in your own post you say it's already under warranty.

 

[jerseykat1]

No I mean break if and get it replaced by warranty.

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[|-KGB-|CaptHowdy]

so insurance fraud?

 

[dumpringz]

take a hammer to it

 

[kc8flb]

Is it worth jail time?

 

[jerseykat1]

That will never happen. Any ideas?

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[jerseykat1]

Its not insurance fraud if I'm not filing an insurance claim. I am talking about the product warranty. every phone comes with one and its usually for 1 year. Insureance with sprint requires a 100 dollar deductable. Warranty has no deductable. Sure its wrong but not a jailable offense by anymeans.


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[infenit101]

Just call customer service. Tell them you are having problems (touchscreen, keypad, anything)and they'll make an e-ticket. Go to the sprint store and tell them you need it replaced and to look up your eticket. As long as it's not water damaged and it looks decent they'll take it, especially if they've already done an e-ticket. I did this with my Hero when one store wouldn't take it back due to chipped paint. I called a rep up, he created an e-ticket, went to another store and got a new hero in 2 days, sold that for $227 and got an epic for $236. The rest is history.

 

[eerongal]

Its not insurance fraud if I'm not filing an insurance claim. I am talking about the product warranty. every phone comes with one and its usually for 1 year. Insureance with sprint requires a 100 dollar deductable. Warranty has no deductable. Sure its wrong but not a jailable offense by anymeans.


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There's only a 100 deductible if it's a "your fault" sort of situation, like water damage or broken screen.

if it's something like a hardware failure it's replaced for free (at least thats how it was with my pre)

If you have the insurance, maybe you could do something with that? Maybe open it up and give it a little jolt of static electricity to any of the circuit boards you can see? If there's no apparent physical damage, or a known common hardware failure, you should be able to get it replaced free.

 

[Brett]

this topic is as the OP stated "unethical" and illegal. insurance fraud is insurance fraud no matter how many different ways of saying it. please do not discuss ways to undermine companies and ask for ideas on how to go about it. if you didn't think this topic was wrong then i dont think you would have said "unethical method" and ask if there was a way you could "break it" and have it covered under warranty.

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