OMG, Am I screwed? Applecare!

[frozenflourish]

Hey,
So, I am POSITIVE that I bought my iPhone in September last year. But of course, the apple store doesn't lie! So I went in today, and they told me I am 4 days outside of warranty. However, they did help me out and replaced my phone. I had a nice genius who threw me a bone and replaced my phone, which was experiencing dropped calls and it had a ton of cracks around the different ports near the phone jacks.
I did tell him though that I had bought Applecare just a few days ago (my husband purchased it from the campus store). I bought it two days before the warranty was out. Because I am sure that I bought this phone in September, I wasn't in any huge hurry to register the Applecare because I thought I had another couple weeks to do so.
He said he thought that I was probably out the money for my Applecare!! Is this true?! Since I bought it before my warranty was expired (by two days) will I be able to get it applied?
Thanks!

 

[baller1308]

Yes, just call Applecare asap. I bought mine like a day or two after my 1 year expired, and just phoned them. Even though I was a bit late they still ended up applying it.

 

[vnle]

This has happened to me before.

The CS guy told me that as long as you have the receipt of the purchase dated before the warranty expires then your device should be covered regardless of a late registration. And it did work for me!

 

[Applejuiced]

Find out exactly when your Applecare expires here: https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do
If it did try calling them up and hopefully they apply it for you.
They dont have to though, you have to do it before the 1 year is up.