ASURION TEP replacement program changes to $100 deductible

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by Darkness231

Its insurance, they should label the abusers as "uninsurable"

Agreed

~John

[DaPeeps]

Originally Posted by Darkness231

All this does though is punish the people that are not abusing it. They should have been more strict about pay outs. Or made it tougher to get an exchange. Its insurance, they should label the abusers as "uninsurable"

+1.....

[Shawng2020]

Honestly, I can understand why they are doing it.

[BillJr106]

I cant understand why... If they are going to do this then they need to reduce the monthly premium to $2 or something. $84 a year plus $100 a trade, $200 for "insurance". In 2 years you will have spent almost $400 on so called insurance, when you are better off just putting that money in a jar because in 2 years your phone wont be worth $400.

[Darkness231]

Originally Posted by BillJr106

I cant understand why...

Because its easier. Its much easier to just charge everybody more to recoup their losses then to actually spend time and money cracking down on the abusers.

[BillJr106]

Yeah I agree with the above poster, if its $100 deductible, Im not laying out my $14 a month anymore. As it stands for one phone per year its $84 bucks plus a $100 deductible? Well you better break your phone in a year just so it only costs you $184. After that you are better off putting the money away yourself since next year you will have spent $268 dollars to replace your phone and I doubt your phone will be worth that much, let alone the fact that you are getting a refurb, not a brand new phone.

[Darkjedi]

I actually have never used the insurance on my plan. Everything was covered by the service and repair part. It does suck that if and when I lose my phone I will have to pay 100$ for a phone that's likely refurbed. For phones like ours that cost 600$ direct (300 at best on ebay), it might make sense, but for people who own cheaper phones like the motorola Q9c, insurance is totally not worth it. For the normal flip style phones? Forget about it, its a waste of money. I can imagine that many people will start opting out of insurance or cancel it altogether.

[Cicatrize]

So, now I pay $7 every month just so that I can have a $100 deductible to replace my phone if it messes up?

Lame.

I've only used it twice. Once for my Mogul, and they gave me a refurb at the Sprint store for free, and once for my Touch, which had black splotches all over the screen. That cost me $50 because they said "it doesn't affect the functionality of the phone."

A-holes.

[TheRealHotshot]

WowZers! Sad ppl abuse the system but like someone posted drop the cost of the insur monthly! I had insur on my phone since day one(the big remote qualcomm phone lol) and I think I might have used insur once all my years with sprint(the samsung flip phone they had that was prone to crack on the side) I'm usually very very careful with my phones but I would hate to think I'll have to shell out 100bucks for a refurb phone.

[Mastanthony89]

when does this start?