yeah thats what i was thinking. plus jumping down onto train tracks is never a good idea unless your suicidal.
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yeah thats what i was thinking. plus jumping down onto train tracks is never a good idea unless your suicidal.
And I'd say it would be kind of stupid for some one to do something pretty suicidal like jump down on the train tracks just to pick up a completely obliterated cellphone that is to the point of not being revived.
I won't call BS cause of that. I'd call it good sense.
This has to be the most ridiculous comment of the day. Have ever rode a train?
you stand on a platform waiting for it to arrive. the rails of the track are about 4ft lower than the platform. you would have to be nuts to jump down and risk getting hit by another train. besides, what would have been the point of retrieving the pieces? To try and fix it with a little superglue and Duct tape?
No, at that point you let it go and move on. especial if you have to play chicken with other trains just to pick up the pieces.
It's a phone. Jumping onto the rail to get a phone just stupid. If you want to commit suicide, by all means go ahead. But I would at least take a pic if I could (with a friend's phone or something).
Yes, jumping onto the rail would have been stupid. Glad the OP didn't do that. $599 is a big price to pay, but you don't throw your life away (or risk serious injury at the very least) for $599.
"We've found your iPhone. The bad news is, it's in several pieces and was submerged in stale subway water. The good news is, your dropped calls are a thing of the past."
I have yet to drop a call, but damn it if my downloads don't crap out when you touch t3h gap of death.
I have yet to drop a call, but damn it if my downloads don't crap out when you touch t3h gap of death.
Wow, some story! Very unlucky man, and I agree with the other posters it was be extremely stupid to jump down onto the track to collect the remnants of a phone.
If you people believe this story then let me tell you about the time these little green men came down from space and snatched my iPhone right out of my hands while I was talking on it in the back yard. It was horrible!
Yea, but your phone didn't get hit by a train. The train story is way cooler than green midget thief's in a space ship.
Well what about the time I was working for the airlines and I dropped my phone in front of a moving plane? Have you heard that one?
Oh and by the way the green midget men had lazer guns! How cool is that? Uh
Instead of paying $599 or $699, you can pay $399 or $499 to re-up your 2 year contract as part of AT&T's "early upgrade." Essentially you pay $200 more than the upgrade eligible price and your 2 year contract gets renewed from the day you get the phone. The $599 and $699 are for no contract phones.
OP says he has an iphone 4. which means he got it a few months ago at earliest.
Early upgrade pricing is not offered quite that early! I think AT&T usually makes you wait at least a year before offering early upgrade pricing.
Some people don't understand that the iPhone is a camera. He just dropped it on the rails.
And some people don't read the part where he says he was at the train station with a bunch of drunks.
I believe the TC, I don't understand why he'd lie.
I guess though, he learned a costly lesson.
And some people don't read the part where he says he was at the train station with a bunch of drunks.
I believe the TC, I don't understand why he'd lie.
I guess though, he learned a costly lesson.
Sorry for your loss!
An Apple Store will replace a damaged or drowned phone with a black-box "service replacement" for $199, but I believe that necessitates giving up the corpse of the old phone.
I don't think they'll just give a replacement phone to anyone who walks in empty-handed with a sad story. You'd need the shards of the old phone, I think. But it's worth a try. Make an appointment at the Genius bar and see what they can do for you.
Perhaps some maintenance supervisor at the station where you lost your phone will agree to provide you with the pieces if you ask nicely enough (a $20 bill would help).
The worst case is that you'll have to pay the full unsubsidized price for the replacement. Ouch.
Another possibility is if you purchased the phone with a credit card; some cards offer a short (typically 90-day) catastrophic-loss replacement policy. Requirements vary (you might need a police report or something, depending on your card's policies) but it might result in the replacement being paid-for, at least up to the amount of the original purchase.
An Apple Store will replace a damaged or drowned phone with a black-box "service replacement" for $199, but I believe that necessitates giving up the corpse of the old phone.
I don't think they'll just give a replacement phone to anyone who walks in empty-handed with a sad story. You'd need the shards of the old phone, I think. But it's worth a try. Make an appointment at the Genius bar and see what they can do for you.
Perhaps some maintenance supervisor at the station where you lost your phone will agree to provide you with the pieces if you ask nicely enough (a $20 bill would help).
The worst case is that you'll have to pay the full unsubsidized price for the replacement. Ouch.
Another possibility is if you purchased the phone with a credit card; some cards offer a short (typically 90-day) catastrophic-loss replacement policy. Requirements vary (you might need a police report or something, depending on your card's policies) but it might result in the replacement being paid-for, at least up to the amount of the original purchase.
I am so over the nay sayers here saying pics or it did not happen...
I feel for the OP... had my first iPhone (the first one) fall out of a holster case in the first week or so... had to live with a small crack on the lower right edge all this time.
Hi, Allstate, yeah I was at home...uh sitting on my couch minding my own business & dropped my phone. Just then a train came flying out of the kitchen right through the living room and smashed the phone to smithereens. Yes, that's right, "to smithereens", OK I'll hold.
Especially since the next train at that time of night is some 45 minutes later. So he stood at the station for 45 minutes just staring at it?
Sorry for your misfortune. If I'm not mistaken, you can take it into the Apple Store and have it replaced for $200. I would like to see some pics as well if you don't mind
To get the $200 out of warranty replacement you have to have the old phone to turn in. And it can't be in pieces. Sorry, I think you're going to have to pay full price.
Trains here aren't like trains there.
At the busiest, he would have 20 minutes to get the phone.