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[Q] NS Best Buy Repair...

I bought my Nexus S at Best Buy when it was free for AT&T last week and I was coxed into buying their Black Tie Protection Plan. I have to say that it was a great idea. However, I took my phone in, because I had a deep scratch in the screen and they told me it's a no go, and they wouldn't accept it for repair. The scratch was deep enough where I could feel it with my fingers... In the end, the phone had to be more impacted, like a cracked screen. They told me Zagg would make it look like new again... All of this while I was waiting for my Case Mate case in the mail...
So I went home and intentionally dropped my phone from two feet from the ground and it smashed the screen! I was "hopping" it would hold up a bit better than it did, but it did have a scratch in the screen. Went back to BB today and turned it in... unfortunately I had read terrible stories of BB repair turn around times, taking up to three weeks!!! So here I am waiting for a commencement email from BB regarding the repair...
Anyone else have experience with BB Black Tie Protection?

The speaker on my first nexus blew out and I also had the black tie protection. Instead of repairing mine they just approved me for junk out about a week later and i went into best buy and got a brand new one. The only way it's gonna take a terribly long time is if the repair center is bogged down or they are having trouble repairing the phone. I wouldn't worry about it too much as the typical time is usually gonna be no more than two weeks.
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I have the black tie. Never did a repair though. however I did have to take my nexus in yesterday because of wonky touch buttons. They said I qualified for rapid exchange. They took my nexus, gave me an LG Optimus loaner, and said I'd h have a new nexus in 3 days. Can't beat that!
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I took mine in for repair because the screen started to lift up on the top right corner. They said it would be taken care of in 3 to 5 business days. That was four business days ago. Also on the Geek Squad tracking website it still shows my device only as being checked in. Luckily I still have my N1 as a backup phone.

I was with GeekSquad a long time ago and their Policy then was, that Under no circumstances would they cover screen scratches or cracks. I'm sure that still stands now.

3 weeks is normal if they send the phone to Samsung, at least it's normal for European electronic device (phones, laptops, tvs, etc) exchanges/repairs.

Because I work for Geeksquad, I can answer most questions reguarding BTP.
90% of the phones sold at BBY qualify for Rapid Exchange BTP, the remaining 10% are either standard repair (taking approx 3-4 weeks to send it in get it repaired and then shipped back, but they provide a loaner phone everytime.) or In-store exchange.
Rapid exchange is essentially a pre-repaired phone, aka refurb. Instead of waiting normal repair times you get refurbs normally within 3 business days.
As for the OP, whoever told you scratches were not covered is lieing to you. BTP covers everything except blatent abuse, IE smashing the phone infront of an employee or sticking it under a tire and driving over it on purpose(yes they really can tell). This also includes water damage. Next time they tell you its not covered, ask to speak to a manager.

Well, I should have posted this before cracking the screen. And I thought they told me BTP covered everything except lost or stolen! (So I wouldn't have to go through the pain of cracking my screen...) And the rapid exchange wouldn't work because I have an AT&T version, which I believe is sold out...
Now I have to pain through three weeks!!! Dang!
Thanks for the info.

jake.corey.jacobs said:
Because I work for Geeksquad, I can answer most questions reguarding BTP.
90% of the phones sold at BBY qualify for Rapid Exchange BTP, the remaining 10% are either standard repair (taking approx 3-4 weeks to send it in get it repaired and then shipped back, but they provide a loaner phone everytime.) or In-store exchange.
Rapid exchange is essentially a pre-repaired phone, aka refurb. Instead of waiting normal repair times you get refurbs normally within 3 business days.
As for the OP, whoever told you scratches were not covered is lieing to you. BTP covers everything except blatent abuse, IE smashing the phone infront of an employee or sticking it under a tire and driving over it on purpose(yes they really can tell). This also includes water damage. Next time they tell you its not covered, ask to speak to a manager.
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Sorry, BTP was not around back then. I was a GeekSquad DA at launch; remained for two and a half years.

Help Having problems with sprint

Alright so here it goes I bought a Nexus S4g by Samsung from sprint about a year ago and my first phone had a gorilla screen but see It accidentally flew out the window of my car when i took it out of my right pocket i lost grip of it so it go run over by a car. I was forced to replace it because it had internal damage, so i did. So i got my new phone but it felt very light it arrived the next day i had thought that maybe the insurance company sprint is under was cheating because see i was at work 4 weeks after i just got this new phone it fell out of the pen pocket of my t shirt when i kneeled down to pick something up the floor, the floor was tile it was only less than foot off the ground and knowing that the previous phone had it worse when it would fall 5 feet it never broke so easily so i was surprised to see that when it landed on the floor it broke my screen. I wasn't very worried because i knew my insurance covered it from what they had told me back in Los Angeles last year they told me that if your screen of phone ever has any damages or glitches say like my screen is broken ect.. you can get it replaced, but now I'm out here in Lowell Massachusetts and they're telling me it's not fixable that i have to buy another again for 100$ so i got extremely mad because when i went over the day my first phone got run over they told me they could fix it if only it wasn't damaged internally I so wasn't going to waste another 100$ just for a broken screen that is so fixable so i was "(WTF) they're lying to me" so It's very unfair and I am going to take all my paperwork so they can see everything and what i signed up for because its (BS) i mean who tells you they could fix it and then tell you they cant a month later ???? so thats why i wanted to ask for your help is anyone would understand the situation better than i on the reason why it is that out of the blue it's suddenly impossible.

this one time ....at band camp......i stuck run on sentences that were unreadable up my p****

repair time? broken screen

Unfortunately my phone recently had a death match with my porcelain floor. The floor won taking out the honor 8 screen within seconds.
The good news is that the screen should be under warranty.
Currently there is a ticket with Huawei to get it repaired.
This was only yesterday that I submitted all the asked for information via email.
Now I am wondering about how long it takes for Huawei to get back to you. And how long it takes from sending the phone in to getting it back.
Anyone have experiences with return and repair?

i had an experience, tho , i live in india , and honor takes their time and it will be somewhat late.. but i cant tell anything about your region, depends totally upon the region,

In Malaysia, I heard it can take 2-3 weeks

They told me 7 to 10 days.
Unfortunately it is a OOW Repair. Screen destroyed.
They said I didn't register it on time, and I swear I did.
It was within the 3 month screen repair window, but not unusual for companies to be strict ( even if you messed up along the way)

as i said, defferent in defferent regions

The screen is under Honor's warranty for accidental damage?

br.moss said:
The screen is under Honor's warranty for accidental damage?
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i think, they will charge for any additional hardware damage,

thilak devraj said:
i think, they will charge for any additional hardware damage,
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The Screen is covered fully the first 3 months I believe.
As long as you register within the first 30 days (I thought I did)

eracet said:
The Screen is covered fully the first 3 months I believe.
As long as you register within the first 30 days (I thought I did)
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for me tho, they charged..

eracet said:
The Screen is covered fully the first 3 months I believe.
As long as you register within the first 30 days (I thought I did)
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Interesting, too bad I didn't register :crying:

br.moss said:
Interesting, too bad I didn't register :crying:
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The cost really isnt that bad for a screen repair.
I know that it was 100$ for me .
If I did it locally it would of been at least 180$ taking the same amount of time.
Seems as though most companies that do screen repair can only do samsung or Iphones.
Silly but I guess it makes sense for them not to carry all screens in stock.

How long is it in the US?

only 20 bucks more than the deductible on passport 2.0 for the axon 7. guess that warranty isn't so special

It took around a week in Finland for repairing the back glass.

Ok, my screen got repaired in the US recently. It took 10 days in total from the day I reported the broken screen glasses to the day I received the phone back. From the day that the repair center in TX, US received my UPS shipment to the day it got repaired and shipped out, it was 3 days, or 2 days from the day they noticed me by email that they have received my phone to the day they emailed me the phone has been shipped back to me. I consider this is a pretty good record for Customer Service like this in the US. The UPS return shipment from the repair center to me is Air shipping (two days). It came back with a Huawei box--despite I used a very small box to ship the phone to them--and a contact card and a Huawei pen. The screens -- front and back, as well as the frame--were all replaced with a new set, marked with FRD-L14 despite the original one was FRD-L04. The OS was reset by them, which I guess was done for testing the installation and so on. I didn't ship the phone to them immediately after I received the UPS label from Huawei; otherwise, it could be sooner, I guess. I am satisfied with the service so far.

i2000s said:
Ok, my screen got repaired in the US recently. It took 10 days in total from the day I reported the broken screen glasses to the day I received the phone back. From the day that the repair center in TX, US received my UPS shipment to the day it got repaired and shipped out, it was 3 days, or 2 days from the day they noticed me by email that they have received my phone to the day they emailed me the phone has been shipped back to me. I consider this is a pretty good record for Customer Service like this in the US. The UPS return shipment from the repair center to me is Air shipping (two days). It came back with a Huawei box--despite I used a very small box to ship the phone to them--and a contact card and a Huawei pen. The screens -- front and back, as well as the frame--were all replaced with a new set, marked with FRD-L14 despite the original one was FRD-L04. The OS was reset by them, which I guess was done for testing the installation and so on. I didn't ship the phone to them immediately after I received the UPS label from Huawei; otherwise, it could be sooner, I guess. I am satisfied with the service so far.
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What is damage of your phone before? Both sides and frame?

freemannhp said:
What is damage of your phone before? Both sides and frame?
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Dropped the phone on the bottom frame and rolled down the stairs and then cracked the back and front glasses. The earjack plug hole got squeezed a little bit. That may be the worst scenario I can imagine. The phone was still functional as a tank. Glad they fixed everything for free very quickly

Here is a follow up of what has happened since my last post here.
I had to get the order for the out of warranty screen repair tied to the account. Mostly did this though phone conversations and they took my order number of the screen repair.
After a few days when they had to "verify" my information I finally received my UPS label.
They wanted everything packaged well and removed the Sim and SD card.
Dropped in my local UPS store.
It took about 4 days to get a verification that it was delivered to Texas. This was a Hauwei notification that said it was delivered.
Totally confused since it said delivered but had my address on the email I received.
The next day I received an email saying they have it in possetion and looking at what needs to be done.
A few more days go by.
Then I get a conformation that they are sending a replacement unit to me..
A few more days go by ( Over all 10 days total )
I received a box . It had a pen on top , a business card and a new phone in the bottom wrapped up in 4 different packaging.
This was not my old phone, I guess they didn't want to fix it .
The only issue I had was had to reinstall all of my apps and get everything set up .
So far its working well. Had a new case and screen protector I purchased to keep it from getting destroyed again.
Let me know if you have any questions about what happened.

eracet said:
Here is a follow up of what has happened since my last post here.
I had to get the order for the out of warranty screen repair tied to the account. Mostly did this though phone conversations and they took my order number of the screen repair.
After a few days when they had to "verify" my information I finally received my UPS label.
They wanted everything packaged well and removed the Sim and SD card.
Dropped in my local UPS store.
It took about 4 days to get a verification that it was delivered to Texas. This was a Hauwei notification that said it was delivered.
Totally confused since it said delivered but had my address on the email I received.
The next day I received an email saying they have it in possetion and looking at what needs to be done.
A few more days go by.
Then I get a conformation that they are sending a replacement unit to me..
A few more days go by ( Over all 10 days total )
I received a box . It had a pen on top , a business card and a new phone in the bottom wrapped up in 4 different packaging.
This was not my old phone, I guess they didn't want to fix it .
The only issue I had was had to reinstall all of my apps and get everything set up .
So far its working well. Had a new case and screen protector I purchased to keep it from getting destroyed again.
Let me know if you have any questions about what happened.
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Overall 10 days seem pretty common and relatively quick nowadays. If you had made a backup before sending it to them, you may have avoided the app reinstallation process. Thank you for sharing!

i2000s said:
Overall 10 days seem pretty common and relatively quick nowadays. If you had made a backup before sending it to them, you may have avoided the app reinstallation process. Thank you for sharing!
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I forgot to mention that they overnighted the phone back to me.
So it was the next day air that I received the phone.
Very fast return time.

Dead Pixels!!!!!!!!

I set my phone down and picked it up only to find dead Pixels in the lower right of the screen! Anyone else have this happen. I haven't dropped the phone or gotten it wet. I am sending it off to Samsung Thursday. I hope they fix it and don't come up with some excuse to to warranty the dead Pixels.

I've had this happen as well. I sent it off to be fixed but when it came back, the front display wasn't working. Now I'll have to send it off again...

What a mess. You would think they would just give you a new phone. They wanted me to take it to one of these fix it places here in Dallas. I opted to send it to the official samsung repair. We shall see.

Yep, me too
This just happened to me an hour ago. I have not damaged the phone in any way. I hope this doesn't turn out to be another Galaxy Fold debacle.
Update: I just called Sprint and since I am within the 30 day satisfaction window, they are going to replace my phone. If this happens again then I'll be highly disappointed!

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What a mess. You would think they would just give you a new phone. They wanted me to take it to one of these fix it places here in Dallas. I opted to send it to the official samsung repair. We shall see.
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Hey what was the update ? I live in dallas too. and I have exactly the same concern. Its good to know what they say before i go there.

Same here. I sent it in for repair, got slammed back with out of warranty due to an invisible scratch in a totally different spot, with their own admission is unrelated to the dead pixel and fault in the screen, and is only on the outer cover...but still invalidate warranty....I switched to Samsung 3 years ago, I might be trying google next...can't replace a good customer service when it matters.

I took my phone to the Samsung repair place uBreakiFix located at 6205 Coit Rd Suite 336, Plano, TX 75024. They fixed it under warranty. Now my phone is really getting hot. So hot is is starting to burn my face when I talk on it. Looks like i will be calling samsung again. I am afraid this thing is going to explode.

Dead Pixels x2!
I am already on my 2nd Galaxy Z Flip and now trying to get #3! My first phone developed a spot of dead pixels in the middle of the screen. They magically appeared less than 24 hours after I received it. It was only plugged in to charge overnight, so I know that they were not caused by me. It then took over 3 weeks of multiple calls to finally get it replaced! At first, they kept trying to get me to send it in for a refund, and then told me that I could just buy a new one to fix it. I told them that they were dumb and that this was not a logical option. I received this phone through the Samsung Device Insights program for 1/2 price and a replacement would cost me the full amount.
Finally, after spending another hour on the phone and telling my story for the 50th time, I finally got through to someone in a higher up support office. He agreed with me that the previous calls and my experiences were ridiculous. He took the time to contact a local authorized Samsung repair store where he could send a replacement phone for me to pick up. On the bright side, I only had to turn in the phone, and I got a completely brand new one in the box. He said I could keep all the accessories from the original phone. While it did take a few days longer than I was originally told, I did eventually get the new phone.
Fast forward to today, I have had this replacement device for exactly 20 days. I am presently at work and when I opened the phone to check my messages, I found MORE DEAD PIXELS! Just like the last phone, they are always visible, only this time they are at the top of the display. I made another call back into Samsung, and I am currently waiting for a return phone call from Anthony. He just so happens to be the same upper level support person that I spoke with last time. He was the only one that was able to get the phone swapped out. Now I am hoping he will call me back to get this taken care of again.
I will say that If I do not get a call today as promised, I am sending it back for a full refund and I will never again buy another Samsung product. I am leery about even getting a 3rd unit after the horrible experiences I have had. Have any of you had similar problems and did they get your defective phone screens repaired/replaced as promised? So far, I am very underwhelmed and think that Samsung has a long way to go to provide proper customer service.

Me too
I've had a Z flip for 5 months and tiny dead pixels on the top of screen.
I've never dropped nor wet.
I went to Samsung repair shop in London and they told me that they can't repair under warranty and I had to pay 99 pounds.
They mentioned that they could see tiny scratch on the screen which I couldn't see my eyes.
My friends told me that Samsung after care are terrible and I agree that.
I've been carefull this phone and I've never had a problem with dead pixels before.
I felt I was conned and very disappointed with Samsung

Welp, my Pixel finally had a catastrophic failure

Today about 2 hours after waking up, I unlocked my phone and noticed that a dime size dead-zone at the bottom left of the phone. My phone has been in a case and a glass screen protector since taking it out of the box and I have never (knock on wood) dropped it whatsoever. If I took it out of the case and screen protector you would think it is a brand new phone never used. So now I have this dead zone that will not recover regardless of countless remedies, so I contact Google support as I am a member of Google one because I pay for the 100 gigabyte cloud storage. I sent the representative Hey picture of the dead zone and to my surprise he told me he told me " do not worry about this at all, I will start an RMA for you immediately". I was extremely pleased with how this was handled, an hour after talking with him, my entire screen died. I no longer can use my phone at all. Thank god it will be here in two days!

So you'll only have to slum it with an old device for a day or two, sweet!

Never had a problem with Google RMA process, always the reason I buy direct, piece of mind

In the UK - Google do a great job with their phones too for RMA. They sort you out relatively well
Even if you didnt buy direct

Update:
Got the new device yesterday, apparently they are refurbished and I noticed a nice big strand of white lint in-between the camera glass right on top of the main shooter. Obviously got in there when Google did whatever they do to refurbish phones.
Contacted them and so far they are refusing to swap this one out. I understand it's a little nit picky but I paid $900 for a brand new phone, it had a defect and the replacement now has a defect. That aside, it's absolutely killing my OCD. Could you imagine having to look at that stupid little piece of lint for years to come? If they ultimately stick with not doing an RMA on this I'm either selling and going for a OnePlus 8 pro or possibly even attempting to remove the camera glass square to get that little fu**** out.

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Update:
Got the new device yesterday, apparently they are refurbished and I noticed a nice big strand of white lint in-between the camera glass right on top of the main shooter. Obviously got in there when Google did whatever they do to refurbish phones.
Contacted them and so far they are refusing to swap this one out. I understand it's a little nit picky but I paid $900 for a brand new phone, it had a defect and the replacement now has a defect. That aside, it's absolutely killing my OCD. Could you imagine having to look at that stupid little piece of lint for years to come? If they ultimately stick with not doing an RMA on this I'm either selling and going for a OnePlus 8 pro or possibly even attempting to remove the camera glass square to get that little fu**** out.
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Edit: I did buy direct btw, always have and always will.

1dopewrx05 said:
Edit: I did buy direct btw, always have and always will.
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Just call them back and do a second warranty, let them know your experiencing new problems, or tell them you want to do a buyer's remorse return & they'll do it. I did a buyers remorse after I bought the my pixel 3 xl twice last year, once at 2 months & the other at 4 months, (That's where they give your your money back).. I called them for a day over & over but they did what I wanted. don't let Google tell you what's gonna happen you tell them