Thank you Sprint! - Page 3

entwined82 · #21 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 10:59 PM

It seems like the only company losing out here is Asurion. Which is fine by me anyways given the fact that people pay $7 a month for TEP and then also have to now shell out $100 on top of that. Thats too expensive for an extended warranty.

stifiling · #22 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 11:11 PM

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It seems like the only company losing out here is Asurion. Which is fine by me anyways given the fact that people pay $7 a month for TEP and then also have to now shell out $100 on top of that. Thats too expensive for an extended warranty.

$7 a month and $50 deductible wasn't bad at all though...would u agree?

Yea that $100 is definitely kinda tight now, which further validates my point....i really feel that 200 "Get a free Touch Pro" threads played a huge part in the hike of the deductible.

i'll ask again, with all the fraud going on...if it was your company, wouldn't u agree that a price increase was needed? i can't be mad at them, they would've been insane to keep it the way it was. but at the same time, it 'was' GREAT. i loved it. it was too good to be true. $7 a month with a $50 deductible to insure a $600 pda, you can't be that. and that's how i knew to never say anything too stupid to mess it up....but everyone else did an excellent job at killing it. hate to see it go but it's gone now. but it's understandable. if i was the CEO, getting frauded out from every angle like they are, i would've done the same thing....wouldn't you??

entwined82 · #23 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by stifiling

$7 a month and $50 deductible wasn't bad at all though...would u agree?

Yea that $100 is definitely kinda tight now, which further validates my point....i really feel that 200 "Get a free Touch Pro" threads played a huge part in the hike of the deductible.

i'll ask again, with all the fraud going on...if it was your company, wouldn't u agree that a price increase was needed? i can't be mad at them, they would've been insane to keep it the way it was. but at the same time, it 'was' GREAT. i loved it. it was too good to be true. $7 a month with a $50 deductible to insure a $600 pda, you can't be that. and that's how i knew to never say anything too stupid to mess it up....but everyone else did an excellent job at killing it. hate to see it go but it's gone now. but it's understandable. if i was the CEO, getting frauded out from every angle like they are, i would've done the same thing....wouldn't you??

Absolutely. $7 + $50..ok. $100? not ok. I refuse to get TEP. I'll handle my returns with HTC or Sprint for 1 year, if it breaks after I'm getting whatever I can cheap.

I think it was more the abuse of the $50 replacements, and people using TEP as a way to guarantee they would work the system to get the hot new phone even if they were unwilling to pay the full retail price.

Maybe if HTC made better phones or Sprint required better quality control on handsets this wouldn't come up as much.

And yeah I do agree with your point to some extent. Its not baseless but the idea of hording every single tip and never sharing hurts the community. This community exists because of sharing, right? Its about helping now. There is always another loophole to be exploited.

stifiling · #24 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 11:48 PM

i agree don't hord every single tip...jus the ones that'll end if u tell everyone.

but yes exactly as u said....people using the insurance to get a new phone for $50 is probably what did the most damage. but everyone didn't know about it, until the ones smart enough to figure it out started telling everyone else about it.

i'm guilty of the fraud myself. i've done it myself 5 or 6 times. i told maybe 3 people (a couple cousins) about it...and these fools started doing it every 3 months. every time the phone got a scratch on it...they'll break it on purpose to get a replacement. I say whoa! i won't tell anyone else...this type of behavior will bring it to an end. i definitely knew from the beginning though, that it probably wouldn't be wise to post it on a quarter million user community forum. to say, "Here's how to get a free Touch Pro" is pretty much another way of saying "Goodbye free upgrades" which is why i've never done it. i was hoping to up to the TP2 when it came out...but it definitely doesn't look like it's going to happen now. the show is being stopped here.

stifiling · #25 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 11:53 PM

hey jevsays, didn't u wanna up your TP to a TP2 when it came out? don't u agree that this thread and the 100 others like it, that were posted by people like you, are hurting the chances of that happening?? not trying to come down on you...jus wanna shine the light on it from a different angle.

i know u're excited and congratulations, but if u ever find out which mountain you can get free gold in, don't tell me cause i'm gonna be there digging to, and so is all my friends and family, and all their friends etc. and what will the end result be for you..........LESS GOLD!

Eroc147 · #26 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 02:03 AM

Wow if I hijacked threads and posted in them almost ten times basically being redundant then entire time, then I would be well on my way to being out of "noob" status atleast for post count. So heres +1 for me and I'm sure you will reply a couple more times for good measure.

As for the OP comment, good for you.

As for all the opposition that was recieved, I don't think theres an intelligent person out there that doesn't realize this is possible. And I think its merely insulting peoples intelligence to think they havent already done this, know how to, or have tried. And with a forum with the word "geek" in the name I doubt thinking people were dumb was the best assumption.

I'm going to go get my Touch Pro replaced tomorrow due to keyboard failure, seriously. But in no way am I going to go "scam" the company now because of this post. I was sold faulty equipment and I want a replacement, simple as that.

But kudos to the most entertaining, shake my head, WTF thread in a while. (Well it couldnt have been that long seeing as how I am a lowly NOOB which automatically makes me ignorant)

gnatsstang · #27 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 02:08 AM

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jus wondering...what makes you want to share this information with 250,000 other people? do you want them to try it too? say all 250,000 did this because of this great and useful advice....and now they're out of equipment and yours breaks again. and now u're stuck with it...wouldn't you kind of be upset with yourself?

i'm going to go do this tomorrow and get me a new phone too. i think everyone on the site should do it.

not exactly the attitude 2 have. but hey, u night b having a bad day. who knows?