Break Phone within Warranty
November 11, 2011 10:40 AM   Subscribe

How To Break Phone within warranty ? (thinking voltage maybe ?) (read before judging)

This is all hypothetical of course... but lets say my friend bought a new HTC from BestBuy and they told him their protection plan covered EVERYTHING including accidental damage, so he got it...

Then later on when his phone got messed up, lets say the place where you plug in the charger is screwed up and the phone won't charge... my friend found out BB plan won't cover accidental damage, which must have occurred when he plugged in the charger at some point.

So, just wondering what could happen that might make the phone need some repair under warranty?

Again this is hypothetical....Just a quest for knowledge.
posted by absolutshrk to Technology (6 answers total)

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How To Break Phone within warranty ?

I'd wager that this protection plan does not include intentional damage if it doesn't incude accidental damage...so it almost certainly can't be done.

Hypothetically, of course.
posted by inturnaround at 10:45 AM on November 11, 2011


If it covers EVERYTHING but it doesn't actually cover everything, it would be very hard to know what it will cover without being told more specifically what it covers.

In other words, I don't think this question can be answered.
posted by alms at 10:48 AM on November 11, 2011


I'd read the hypothetical protection plan and find out what's covered.
posted by Static Vagabond at 10:48 AM on November 11, 2011


Hypothetically go and buy the sameHTC phone, replace your phone where the new one was in the box, take back and return to Best Buy. Right after X-Mas preferably so they pressure to keep things moving along as there is a huge line of X-Mas returns. This idea might have zero chance of working as I am not sure how phones are returned.
posted by amazingstill at 10:56 AM on November 11, 2011


So, just wondering what could happen that might make the phone need some repair under warranty?

There is a manufacturing defect that renders the phone unusable, which in turn absolves the user of responsibility for repair. I don't know how an end user would introduce a manufacturing defect in his or her device, short of building a time machine and visiting the factory where the phone was made.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:00 AM on November 11, 2011 [1 favorite]


Hypothetically go and buy the sameHTC phone, replace your phone where the new one was in the box, take back and return to Best Buy. Right after X-Mas preferably so they pressure to keep things moving along as there is a huge line of X-Mas returns. This idea might have zero chance of working as I am not sure how phones are returned.

Oh, PLEASE don't do this. Chances are good that they'd just stuff it back on the shelf and some other poor schlub will be left having to deal with BB's return policy.
posted by scarykarrey at 11:35 AM on November 11, 2011


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