In the “fat years” the failure of the smartphone is often considered as a long-awaited excuse to buy a new one. Now times not those and many prefer to repair the old machine. Alas, not always the outstanding service extends phone life: sometimes it “dies” completely, and the owner is still deprived of large sums of money. Hi-Tech.Mail made a selection of the tricks practiced by savvy repairmen in the service centers.
Non-warranty case
This method is used surprisingly rarely. The trick is very simple: you declare that the case, they say, non-warranty, because with the naked eye visible mechanical damage, or at autopsy revealed traces of moisture or even micro cracks on the Board due to impacts and falls — so the repair will have to pay yourself. If you agreed to such “wiring”, the repairmen will get the money twice: once with you, and the second time with the manufacturer for which they will write up your case as the most that neither is a guarantee.
Guaranteed to protect against such fraud is possible only by abandoning the “non-warranty” repair and giving a broken smartphone to an independent examination. Of course, most people are too lazy to do it, they need to get the smartphone in operational as quickly as possible: so they pay and will pay.
On request in the search engines “an Independent examination of the phone” you will find dozens of companies providing such services. The most important thing to remember: if the expert recognizes the case of warranty, it will have to pay the manufacturer (as expected, you will have to file a lawsuit), and if not – you will have to pay you. Rather, you will have to pay anyway, just one of them subsequently will return the money.
Work + parts
Dishonest repairmen like to Express a comprehensive price for repairs, like, totally work plus parts cost so much. This is done specifically so that you could compare prices with the other services, where separately indicate the cost of parts, and separately — works. What’s the point? But the meaning is very simple. For example, in the “right” service spare part costs 5000 rubles, and the work — 1000. But in the “wrong” you declare 5000 rubles for all. It seems that it is cheaper, but really for the money you put slightly used item, which price — 2000 rubles, and for work (well or at all) charge 3000. Naturally, this option is not ideal, because you can in fact put a used item for 2000, to pay 1000, and in the end, “budget” repairs will cost 3000 rubles instead of 5000, and you consciously take this step.
Remember: always need to know separately the cost of parts and work separately.
Those parts do not
Actually, this method of deception builds on the previous one: instead of new original spare parts or you install a cheap Chinese neoriginal, or a slightly used spare. Money you will take for a new one, but how will work the “left” components — no one knows. However, here are a couple of nuances: for example, some parts not even principally supplied by the manufacturer. Maybe Apple does not sell separately display modules for iPhone and official service simply replaces the new smartphone that is not very different in cost from buying a new machine. Therefore, informal service you will receive neoriginal dubious quality, or, if you’re lucky — the screen of the device-donor, who must find and buy (just for the purpose of selling for parts “iPhone”, which can be fully remotely lock and steal).
The same situation can occur if you give to repair really old phone: it will be easier to find a workable fee with the device-donor than trying to repair existing. The price, however, in the case of fraud will be as for a new original part.
Theft of spare parts
Sometimes, getting in the repair of faulty apparatus, you suddenly become a donor: declaring non-repairable smartphone or a specially designed “charging” unacceptable price, repairmen meanwhile shoot with your smartphone healthy items and keep them instead of installing or, at best, unoriginal, or obviously defective, or if the arrogance is quite off the charts, no — not the customer to disassemble the unit on the spot to check it. Sometimes this is done not only with the aim of stealing the parts, but also for “promotion” on additional repairs — say, the initial damage we’ve eliminated, and there is already opened one, you will buy their items again.
Buying for a pittance
Trusting the client is not a sin to tell that the phone burned processor, the battery corroded and overgrown with moss transmitter and mend this is not possible, or possible but for the price of a new device. Well, why do you need this stuff? Can buy it from you for scrap metal prices that you not so strongly were upset. As a result, the smartphone that is just something I had to reflash, for a penny goes to maintenance, which then quickly leads to feeling Bad and sells at the market price. Remember, smartphone is usually either a broken screen or a faulty Board, so the two differently defective devices you can always build one, so do not hurry to get rid of “stuff” for a penny: to someone it can be much more useful.
