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Originally posted by Adeptus
Finally, I don't know about Verizon and Asurion, but it seems that in most cases, the insurance replacements are repaired / refurbished phones, often with serious problems. I've heard quite a few horror stories about that.
yes you are partialy correct asurion does buy repaired/refurbushed phones from manufactuares, in addition to making our own repairs on damaged phones that people send back to us when they get there new phone (in the cases were it wasn't lost or stolen) but those phones are are extensivly tested to make sure they are fully working and backed up by a 6 month malfunction warrenty, but we also buy brand new phones from the manufatures, so in order to see that we recive aslittle complaints as possable, the refurbished phones must meet the same standards as the brand new phones, we also offer a 30 day malfunction warenty(for verison clients),on brand new phones.
so yes there are repair phones going back to the costomers, but they are more often then not, the same quality as new phones, but in the event they are still broken, we to replace the phone, with no additional deductables
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Originally posted by Adeptus
After the contract is over, you can do it again and get a new subsidized phone -- and you probably will want to do that anyway, because by then phones will be smaller, nicer and have more features. At that point, a new phone will cost you practically the same as the amount you would have paid in insurance premiums and deductible, plus you get an upgrade.
not every one wants that, some people want the same phone that they lost, because people are creatures of habit, people like fermiliar things, so the mobile refurbishment spoken about earlyer, allows us to replace phones that are NLP (nolonger produced)
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Originally posted by Adeptus
When I have been offered this sort of insurance in past, the cost has varied between $4 and $8 per month. If we take the average of that ($6) and multiply by 12, it means additional $72 spent over the course of one year.
we don't deal directly with those charges, those are set by your provider, but from what i've heard, they're usualy between $2-3
again, i'm not trying to sell anything
, but this is in my opinion a good service, its very friendly, and customer service is our number one priority
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