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Will the genuis bar still help me past a year?
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I doubt it since it is past it's year and you have an additional warranty through another company. It never hurts to ask, you have nothing to lose.
Did You
Ever get asked if you wanted to extend your AppleCare beyond a year? Even if your just over a year, I think you'd be unlucky not to get help from them.
When I bought my iMac, I got a ridiculous discount on three years of AppleCare warranty cover. I wouldn't normally have gone for it, but it was a great deal and covers all my apple kit.
If you are polite, I think they will help, it's a pretty common fault because the hone button on iPhones, iPads etc. Gets a lot of use.
Hope you get it fixed!
Ever get asked if you wanted to extend your AppleCare beyond a year? Even if your just over a year, I think you'd be unlucky not to get help from them.
When I bought my iMac, I got a ridiculous discount on three years of AppleCare warranty cover. I wouldn't normally have gone for it, but it was a great deal and covers all my apple kit.
If you are polite, I think they will help, it's a pretty common fault because the hone button on iPhones, iPads etc. Gets a lot of use.
Hope you get it fixed!
Ever get asked if you wanted to extend your AppleCare beyond a year? Even if your just over a year, I think you'd be unlucky not to get help from them.
When I bought my iMac, I got a ridiculous discount on three years of AppleCare warranty cover. I wouldn't normally have gone for it, but it was a great deal and covers all my apple kit.
If you are polite, I think they will help, it's a pretty common fault because the hone button on iPhones, iPads etc. Gets a lot of use.
Hope you get it fixed!
Apple iMac applecare is worth getting. I spent close to $2500 on my core i7 iMac. The AppleCare for iMac is dirt cheap (around $180 USD/$129 Student discount).
But Applecare for iPhone is around $69 USD for only one extra year warranty for a phone that will become outdated.
But to answer the OP's question. Yes, I've seen genius look at out of warranty Apple equipment all the time. However, since it's out of warranty, the best you can hope for is a $199 out of pocket/out of warranty exchange.
Maybe you get lucky and get a genius who will do a free one time exchange if there is something truly wrong with the phone.
But to cover yourself for square trade. Have genius print out what's wrong with the phone. That way, you can cover yourself if squaretrade wants to reject your warranty request. You can tell squaretradeApple recommended a replacement.
You Have It So Good
In the US you guys really do get a great deal. My iMac cost me just over £2169.00 I think the dollar is around $1.63 at the moment, so you can see what we have to pay here in the UK. The deal I got on AppleCare was three years for my iMac, iPhone, ipad2 and ATV for £169.00. Well worth it, and I'm glad I did.
Apple kit is not really DIY repair friendly although I know people have done their own repairs...If it was a PC I would do it myself, but those days ( thank goodness) are gone.
I too know people who have had stuff fixed out of warranty date, and I have to say that all my experience with Apple has been very good indeed.
In the US you guys really do get a great deal. My iMac cost me just over £2169.00 I think the dollar is around $1.63 at the moment, so you can see what we have to pay here in the UK. The deal I got on AppleCare was three years for my iMac, iPhone, ipad2 and ATV for £169.00. Well worth it, and I'm glad I did.
Apple kit is not really DIY repair friendly although I know people have done their own repairs...If it was a PC I would do it myself, but those days ( thank goodness) are gone.
I too know people who have had stuff fixed out of warranty date, and I have to say that all my experience with Apple has been very good indeed.
Not sure where on the island you are but the Manhasset store is much easier to deal with than Roosevelt Field. At least that's been my experience.
Is it always $199.00? That was my understanding, though my friend recently had her out-of-warranty iPhone 3G replaced by at an Apple store for under a hundred (I can't remember the exact number she told me).
That must have been it.
Mine repeatedly crashes and I get the spinning white wheel in the center of the screen all the time. It also exits out to the lock screen unexpectedly for no particular reason.
"Battery issue"?
I think if they can see physical damage it's $199 (cracked screen etc) and if not, then the lower $79 rate.
I see. Mine has that crack near the dock connector on the bottom, but that's common thing if I recall.
The apple geniuses will always try to help you. now if theres nothing they can do then....
but they will do their best. They always help me, even after my warranty or apple care ran out.
but they will do their best. They always help me, even after my warranty or apple care ran out.