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On my 6th iPhone 5...sigh...
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Perhaps. I see your point. I guess the OP MAY be overreacting somewhat, but still, if it's 200 bucks you're laying out for a new phone (235 w/ upgrade fee, and for the 16GB, obviously more if you're going up in size) you'd want it to be without these flaws. I put my phones in cases the day I buy them so that when it comes time to sell them, I can get top dollar.
OT: The desire or requirement to have a phone without defects is not OCD. Returning phones until a suitable replacement is received is not OCD. Pointing out the incorrect use of OCD is not OCD.
Let me repeat (as the OP):
I started this post simply for one reason: to let people know that you can exchange your defective phone until you get a perfect one.
If you choose to settle for a defective one, good for you. I choose to get what I pay for.
The replacement phones come out of thin sealed boxes from the back that have nothing in them but iPhones. These are not for sale. Replacements only.
So, to sum up: REPLACEMENT PHONES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PRE ORDERS OR IN STOCK PHONES FOR SALE.
I started this post simply for one reason: to let people know that you can exchange your defective phone until you get a perfect one.
If you choose to settle for a defective one, good for you. I choose to get what I pay for.
The replacement phones come out of thin sealed boxes from the back that have nothing in them but iPhones. These are not for sale. Replacements only.
So, to sum up: REPLACEMENT PHONES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PRE ORDERS OR IN STOCK PHONES FOR SALE.
OT: The desire or requirement to have a phone without defects is not OCD. Returning phones until a suitable replacement is received is not OCD. Pointing out the incorrect use of OCD is not OCD.
Pointing out that O.C.D. is an acronym and should have periods separating the letters is not O.C.D.
I agree that it would be difficult to go back to any business and say that the damage was there when I bought it, TRUST ME
Open the box at the store then ask if I should keep it if damaged and documented. Get one later after the rush. On the other hand if all of the phones were damaged then he saved other people the heartbreak.
I think the OP should just do a full refund and keep his current shiny phone which i'm sure is free of blemishes.
Plenty of replacement stock? LOL! They will be repacking and selling those phones just the way they are.
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Agreed. Geeks must have a special place that they can decompress every few hours to keep from killing the OCD customers that walk in there everyday!
Plenty of replacement stock? LOL! They will be repacking and selling those phones just the way they are.
No, they'll all get a new case and will probably be more defect-free than the initial batch.
Only time will tell! After hearing what is happening a Foxcom, it sounds like some might have done less than quality work out of being unhappy!
Looks like China will be suffering the same union fate we have, sooner of later!
Im from Jersey, OP is from jersey...well now I know if I go in for a replacement the only replacement phones left are the ones with defects. Good thing mine came pristine. Except for my wobbly power button which is no big deal.
Why should the iPhone 5 be held to a different standard than, say the iPhone 4 or 4S?
If you bought a brand new phone, it should be brand new, free of blemishes and defects. Try showing up to an Apple store and tell them that you only want to pay them 95% of the price for a phone with a few scratches on it.
Let us know how that goes.
Exactly. Or return the phone within 14 days exactly as you got it, scratched and anodizing missing. See if they say 'it's not in new condition, you can not return it'.
I totally understand OP and thanks for the confirmation of that much appreciated fact as I'm one who has to wait until October too. But 6 phones dude, SIX! I can see if it was missing something, Dinged or dead pixels, or cracked, but not super simple crap that you will end up doing yourself after a week or two of ownership..
At that point you do one of two things, settle for the third one or simply avoid the manufacture. I call total O.C.D. Would you do that SIX times with a new car from the dealer too, I mean after all you'd pay waaaay more for it than a simple phone, or would you simply return and get your money back and choose another make or manufacture...After the third one trust me I sure the employee envisioned something along these lines...
Only time will tell! After hearing what is happening a Foxcom, it sounds like some might have done less than quality work out of being unhappy!
Looks like China will be suffering the same union fate we have, sooner of later!
It won't be the same group of people who will refurb the returned models and they won't be under the same time gun.
Yes, if they came from the same batch, as they won't have any refurbished units yet.
No actually haha. My brother has been going on my username for a while. Been too lazy to change the passworld. But beleive what you wish.
No actually haha. My brother has been going on my username for a while. Been too lazy to change the passworld. But beleive what you wish.
Then we know what your brother really thinks of you.
The phones are so expensive because of people like the OP.
To be honest, I'm surprised the employees let you open that many phones...that many more phones will now have to go through the entire refurbishing process, and that many more customers who aren't going to care about what most certainly were very likely microscopic blemishes from the manufacturing process and not true defects will have to wait that much longer to get their phones.
To be honest, I'm surprised the employees let you open that many phones...that many more phones will now have to go through the entire refurbishing process, and that many more customers who aren't going to care about what most certainly were very likely microscopic blemishes from the manufacturing process and not true defects will have to wait that much longer to get their phones.