Broken laptop screen

googlefan

Hi,

I've made a fairly extensive crack in my Dell Inspiron 1525 screen this morning. Its only 6 months old-disgusted.

Anyway, it seems that getting it fixed will cost around €300. I've looked at Ebay and screens are going for around €30 there. Has anyone had any experience with going this route, or perhaps a friend who has?

I wonder if I could bring a screen to a shop and get them to do the labour-considering the times we're in I'd say they'd be eager for business.

jhud

Find out if you ring dell for an warranty on accidental damage then wait a week and claim might be cheaper and you still have warranty

googlefan

I got mine through the Pixmania website. I need to check the details again tonight, but I don't think the warranty extends to accidental damage.

If the house insurance covers it I'll get a new one altogether I'd say.

jhud

googlefan wrote: »

I got mine through the Pixmania website. I need to check the details again tonight, but I don't think the warranty extends to accidental damage.

If the house insurance covers it I'll get a new one altogether I'd say.

I know someone was on boards before with this issue and he was told to get accidental insurance off dell (by a dell customer service person) for laptop and then claim the next day. Some house insurance might cover this too with no cost to you so do look into this.

googlefan

Oh I see, very clever. I presume you can take the insurance out at any time so? That would be the job!