Another iPhone scammer gets his comeuppance..

Basq

Engadget has the full story on it.

This thread was reported to Engadget (and numerous other sites) earlier today with the user 'thesheephair' complaining that his iPhone overheated and the screen cracked while sitting in it's dock, and he cribs and complains about Apple, Carphone Warehouse etc.

Here's his initial post on the subject (as linked to above):

Dad bought the iphone to show customers what we where giving away for orders over £500 etc etc

So he bought it in December, didnt bother acitivating it or anything as he didnt need to use the iphone itself, just to show it to customers. So it was rarely turned on.(he didint jailbreak or acitivate it illegally or anything)

He gave it to me on Monday, i put it in the dock loaded up itunes, was about to acitvate it through itunes, but was called for dinner, went downstairs come upstairs to a stupidly hot ihpone thats roasting hot, the back plastic has melted a bit and the glass screen has cracked :O what the helll, take it of the dock and let it cool down.

I took it to apple, they say, due to the fact it hasnt been activated we cant do anything about it. ok hmmmmm no where did it say when i bought it that activation would lead to a warranty.

Took it to carphone warehouse, they said its cosmetic damage we cant do anything about it. which obviously i didnt do as it isn't my responsibility to chase manufacturers!

Took it back to apple and they said we cant do anything, you have to take it up with apple care. right hmmmm so i rang them there and spoke to a superivsor who asked for piccys, so i sent them to his email and he passed them on to the engineer, he said there would be a reply on either tuesday or wednesday! and he would call me ok mateyyy.

After a good 2 hours of research to where i stood i looked up trading standards, looked at consumer direct, read 02, apple, and cpw terms and conditions all of which backed me up.

After ringing again applecare again asked to see the supervisor straight away, i explained the whole story to him again. I mentioned how my business will not be looking to buy any of the iphones for our 40 odd customers if it was going to cause this much trouble. to which he says he will get in contact with HQ "the big bosses" to find out where to send the broken phone. And he would ring me back immediately
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Then what will happen is they will send a brand new boxed iphone, i will take that, put the screwed phone in the box and send it back to apple.

So where do i stand at the moment? i am waiting for a call tommorow to which the superior will say that the new iphone has been dispatched.

What annoyed me the most? Carphone warehouse's opinion that it was cosmetic damage and they wont do anything about it, which i told him was rubbish as it was only opinion and you didnt know for fact that it was actually damaged from the inside

Cue the sympathy for the poor unfortunate bugger until this thread appeared (note the same username):

iPhone smashed by dad

Well he dropped it and now the bottom of the screen is cracked, its a very big crack like 4 cm ones so yeah its had it, its jailbroken and activated (dev) etc. So where do i go from here?

Do you think apple will replace it? i was thinking that i could give it a clean swipe and say to apple i was charging and woke up with the screen cracked, most likely due to the heat and it stopped responding so i did a restore on it.

What you guys think? + what is virginising your iphone mean????

How can i give it a clean swipe ?

THanks for all the help muchos apreciateddd

Think there's only one word appropriate for this - pwned!

Jonathan

Haha serves him right... Bit of a tool to use the same handle tho in all fairness...

440Hz

lmao!! What a tool