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Stolen iPhone/ Friends replacement and AppleCare
- Thread starter DankIllini
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Thank you for helping to jack up the AC+ replacement fee to $79 and OOW replacement fee to $269.
You're out of luck. Just to let you in on a situation that happen to me. My iphone was stolen and it had AppleCare plus. I made a claim with asurion and received a brand new phone. Went to the apple store with the phone with the plastic still on the box. I wanted to transfer over the AppleCare plus. They don't allow it!. But!! Apple did refund me 70 dollars in the form that I paid for the AppleCare plus and I was able to use that towards the purchase of AppleCare plus for the replacement phone. Win/win
Wasted Money
I think you misunderstand. My daughter got a new iPhone a few months ago. It was just stolen. Now I feel like my money was wasted, because I paid for Apple Care, but only had the phone for a few months, not 2 years. Now, just a few months later, I'm buying another new phone, at full purchase price, and I will spend another $99 on Apple Care. So, I have the same feelings of wasted money. If the phone was stolen after the 2 years, I would not even think about the old Apple Care that was never used.
I just read in another thread that they may refund unused portion for a stolen phone. I'm going to call Apple Care tomorrow, fingers crossed.
I think you misunderstand. My daughter got a new iPhone a few months ago. It was just stolen. Now I feel like my money was wasted, because I paid for Apple Care, but only had the phone for a few months, not 2 years. Now, just a few months later, I'm buying another new phone, at full purchase price, and I will spend another $99 on Apple Care. So, I have the same feelings of wasted money. If the phone was stolen after the 2 years, I would not even think about the old Apple Care that was never used.
I just read in another thread that they may refund unused portion for a stolen phone. I'm going to call Apple Care tomorrow, fingers crossed.
Apple care is a warranty service, Asurion is a device replacement. The two overlap a bit, but Asurion will replace a faulty and stolen device. Maybe you should get insurance.
I agree, I've always preferred insurance over Apple care. For me, being lost or stolen was a huge concern of mine. It'd be pretty upsetting to buy the warranty and have the device stolen so quickly afterwards. Hopefully they'll reimburse them a good majority of that $99. Then they can pay for an out of warranty repair on the phone they were given. It'll still cost something but it wouldn't be nearly as astronomical.
I guess the OP could have avoided much of the drama on his thread if he stated that he was held up by gun point. My initial impression was that his phone was picked up while out and he wanted to pull a fast one and try to have Apple replace his friends phone that he claimed as his own. Well, half of that observation is correct.
No, I didn't misunderstand, although it seems the OP and maybe some others have. As already, mentioned AC+ is a warranty service, not insurance.
Apple will refund the portion of AC+ that is not used for the device it's registered on. You aren't "out" anything.
