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iPhone manufactured April 2016 yet no warranty?

dj1891

dj1891

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I bought a second hand iPhone 6 64gb of eBay. Any ideas?

The Apple warranty page says.

Telephone Technical Support: Expired
You are eligible to purchase telephone technical support from an Apple Advisor.

Contact Apple Support

Repairs and Service Coverage: Consult Place of Purchase for Consumer Law Claims
This product isn't eligible for consumer law coverage. Apple's Limited warranty and benefits under AppleCare Protection Plan or AppleCare+ are separate from rights provided by consumer law (see detailsOpens in a new window).

Set up a repair

So no warranty. Yet if I check chipmunk.nl I get.

Colour: Silver
Production week : -13- (April)
Production year : -2016-
Model introduced: -2014-
Capacity: 64GB
 
OK chatted to Apple they said chipmunk is incorrect and it was activated early 2015. Chipmunk also says refurbished yet Apple say no. This is all the details from chipmunk.nl Is there something dodgy about this phone?

Nice Name: iPhone 6 (Global / Sprint)
Machine Model: iPhone7,2
See how much my machine is worth
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Family name: A1586
Group1: iPhone
Group2: 6
Generation:
CPU speed: 1.4GHz
Screen size: 4.7 inch
Screen resolution: 1334x750 pixels
Colour: Silver
Production week : -13- (April)
Production year : -2016-
Model introduced: -2014-
Capacity: 64GB
Memory - flavour: xx
Memory - maximum total: 1GB
Factory: FN (Refurbished)
 
The iPhone 6 was discontinued when the 6s came out last year. The phone is probably fine. Chipmunk is all wet....
 
OK mystery solved. I got in contact with the seller, he said it was a replacement from the genius bar in April 2016, he got his previous phone in 2015 so that is where to two dates are coming from.

Are the replacements from the Genius bar reliable enough? Checking the battery stats its only had 30 charge cycles and the phone itself looks like new.
 
dj1891 said:
OK mystery solved. I got in contact with the seller, he said it was a replacement from the genius bar in April 2016, he got his previous phone in 2015 so that is where to two dates are coming from.

Are the replacements from the Genius bar reliable enough? Checking the battery stats its only had 30 charge cycles and the phone itself looks like new.
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You have the same chance of a defects with a refurbish as you do with a new phone. I do not buy that the refurbs are checked over more carefully. Both have about the same chance of defects.
 
Newtons Apple said:
You have the same chance of a defects with a refurbish as you do with a new phone. I do not buy that the refurbs are checked over more carefully. Both have about the same chance of defects.
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I would say, at worst, it is the same chance of failure or defect, but it could be slightly better.
 
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