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[amicheze]

thrash;299826 wrote:
Apple refused to honor the applecare 3yr warranty on my wife's ibook. The hard drive died. The guy at the apple store in minneapolis said that there was evidence of a spill, and so they weren't going to honor anything.

(We never spilled anything in that machine, and even if we did, a spill wouldn't cause a mechanical click-of-death failure in a vacuum sealed hard drive.)

Fuck apple.

A friend of mine's motherboard died in his like a week before the warranty was up. Apple told him that they wouldn't honor it because it was too close to the end of the warranty and they thought he did it on purpose to get a new computer. He ended up paying almost $600 to get it fixed.

[PSiedTSi]

Dell specifically contacted me before my warranty was up and asked that I send it in so they could fix any issue, small or large, with the computer before the warranty was over.

[TurboGTU]

amicheze;299850 wrote:
A friend of mine's motherboard died in his like a week before the warranty was up. Apple told him that they wouldn't honor it because it was too close to the end of the warranty and they thought he did it on purpose to get a new computer. He ended up paying almost $600 to get it fixed.

I would have went and bought a different brand of computer if that is there standard. Can't say I'll ever buy an apple.....

[Jim]

thrash;299826 wrote:
Apple refused to honor the applecare 3yr warranty on my wife's ibook. The hard drive died. The guy at the apple store in minneapolis said that there was evidence of a spill, and so they weren't going to honor anything.

(We never spilled anything in that machine, and even if we did, a spill wouldn't cause a mechanical click-of-death failure in a vacuum sealed hard drive.)

Fuck apple.

True story. I went to the Mall of America apple store w/ a friend bc his HD was dead, he was under the "applecare" warranty but they claimed it was dropped (it wasn't), and wanted a few hundred to fix it.