Let me tell you fuckers a secret

[96ukssob]

I forget what his name was here, but he always posted ways to get shit for free or rip shit off... I always laughed as I thought the same thing but would never tell anyone my secrets... until NOW!

My friends make fun of me for this, but they always ask "how" when I get away with free stuff, upgrades or credit back on my cable bill. I've mastered this "skills" over the past few years and I don't consider it cheating, but merely "beating the system."

Since Verizon Wireless straight up fucked me with my contract now, I want to even the score, so for those of you that have the service here in the states, feel free to abuse


How to keep a never ending warranty

I don't know about other phones besides Apple, but they come with a 1 year warranty, then your SOL. Before your warranty is up, call VZ and complain about issues on your phone. Tell them it keeps dropping calls (you have to have people call you then hang up, they will check) or that you can't connect to their service.

Do this a few times, they keep really good notes on their end then demand to speak to a "supervisor" from tech support. They will often have you do some BS entry level testing like reset your phone, etc. but say you are in a rush. I usually call about 30 minutes before they close, no one likes to work at the end of their shift, but always tell them you don't have time.

Tell them you are leaving to go out of town in three days and can they please offer a replacement device. In most cases, they will say yes and ship you one out two day FedEx. You just ship your old one back and POW! the clock starts over again

[Evil Chris]

Are you talking about the Anal Hobbit?

[96ukssob]

Originally Posted by Evil Chris

Are you talking about the Anal Hobbit?

yeah, thats him

[seeandsee]

Yeah but in my country that new phone warranty will be valid only for time left for 1st phone warranty...

[ottopottomouse]

Should have kept it a secret. Even seeandsee knows it's shit advice.

[CDSmith]

OR... in the U.S. you could simply pull your gun, hold it to the phone dealer's head, and make him sign off on the extended warranty and keep his mouth shut if he knows whats good for him.

It's all in where you live.

[woj]

so wait a min, you have a perfectly good phone, and are wasting hours going through some convoluted bullshit to get a warranty extended by 1 year? which you could have just bought for like $30 without jumping through any hoops?

[Anal Hobbit]

Well done my friend...

[alias]

All hail the master of "tips" the one and only Anal Hobbit.

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by woj

so wait a min, you have a perfectly good phone, and are wasting hours going through some convoluted bullshit to get a warranty extended by 1 year? which you could have just bought for like $30 without jumping through any hoops?

After getting burned too many times with extended warranties - these days I won't even consider them.

The final straw time - we took out an extended warranty plan to have our cellphone batteries replaced each year. At the end of the first year we went in to get new ones...and were told by the company (Rogers) that they'd sold the warranty contract to Circuit City (The Source here in Canada) and we'd have to go there. We'd never been notified.

So we went to The Source.

The Source people knew nothing about it. Sent us back to Rogers. We went back and forth several times and got nothing but bullshit run-around. Fed up, we finally raised such a loud stink in Rogers, the manager gave us two entirely new phones just to get us out of the store.

We left Rogers a short time later and went (back) to Telus (even though I hate and despise Bell).

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by bossku69

I don't know about other phones besides Apple, but they come with a 1 year warranty, then your SOL. Before your warranty is up, call VZ and complain about issues on your phone. Tell them it keeps dropping calls (you have to have people call you then hang up, they will check) or that you can't connect to their service.

Do this a few times, they keep really good notes on their end then demand to speak to a "supervisor" from tech support. They will often have you do some BS entry level testing like reset your phone, etc. but say you are in a rush. I usually call about 30 minutes before they close, no one likes to work at the end of their shift, but always tell them you don't have time.

Tell them you are leaving to go out of town in three days and can they please offer a replacement device. In most cases, they will say yes and ship you one out two day FedEx. You just ship your old one back and POW! the clock starts over again

That's way too much work.

Perhaps if you invested that kind of effort into working, you would make enough money to buy two new phones.

With warranties.

[epitome]

Edit: NM, I missed the part about you sending it back.

[freecartoonporn]

you do understand that, this is no more secret as its on internet now.

[DiamonMike]

Originally Posted by woj

so wait a min, you have a perfectly good phone, and are wasting hours going through some convoluted bullshit to get a warranty extended by 1 year? which you could have just bought for like $30 without jumping through any hoops?

I don't think its as much about the extended warranty as its about you getting a brand new phone every year.Its kinda the same as extending the warranty.