We do not have a stupidity warranty

[portia911]

for all those working in retail, I doubt there is nothing worse than dealing with peoples mobile phones. Not only do people get totally mental about not being able to be in constant contact with their super best friend in the world for 5 minutes, but the stupid buggers expect everything fixed under warranty. Such as...

Running over it with your car
Putting it through the washing machine
Putting it in the oven when you are drunk
dropping it in the toilet
cutting it in half with a mig welder
throwing up on it
throwing it at your boyfriend
dropping it 4 storeys over your balcony
sitting on it
your friend burying it in the garden as a joke
your cat pissing on it
your best friend pissing on it
kicking it across the room
leaving it in the bottom of your water filled kayak
running over it with your lawnmower
knocking it into a tub of offal
setting fire to it
trying to dry it out in the microwave
spilling coffee on it
playing touch rugby with it
using it at the beach

These are not faults with the phone, it is damage you have inflicted and it cannot be sent away for free no matter how sulky you get. If I take the battery off and water pisses out of it then i can pretty much say it has water damage even though you swear to god it's never even been used anywhere near water.

[calulu]

Oh gawd! I see you've waited on my husband. I'm so so sorry!

[mattm04]

We had one lady who wanted us to replace her phone because she though she might have left it in our store.

[hinakiba777]

When I started my contract with my current provider, it was because my old phone got trashed. I tried arguing a bit with my old provider about a replacement, but I wasn't being a brat about it.

THe day before I replaced the phone I went to see "30 days of Night" alone. I was walking down the main street of the city when some kids who were also at the film scared the spenortens out of me. I jumped, and my phone fell out of my pocket into a puddle.

I knew that water damage wasn't covered, but it was such a freak accident I thought I'd give it a try.

Oh, and don't think I'm dumped my old provider because of that. I was with Virgin, and pay as you go was getting costly.

[Lingering Grin]

Running over it with your car

Must have been my sister...

She went to a club, and dropped her purse in the parking lot as they were leaving... about 15 minutes later she realized it. They went back to get it, and found it sitting under the back tire of a hummer, and not one of those glorified-SUVs, I'm talking about one the originals

[godaistudios]

Ah... the joys... I actually work in a call center doing tech support for <insert wireless provider>

I had a call recently where a guy had dropped his blackberry, the trackball was lost and now it wouldn't turn on.

And he wanted me to file an exchange for his phone.

SC: You mean you won't exchange this phone I dropped?

Me: I'm sorry sir, the manufacterer's warranty doesn't cover physical damage.

SC: Well F*K you then

Click.

I did take joy in noting his account and putting instructions on the account that he had damaged his phone.

[computeraide]

knocking it into a tub of offal

WTF?!?!

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I've heard pretty much all those before and believe me I do feel your pain.

I had a customer last night looking for a warranty replacement for a flip phone that her father had clean SNAPPED IN HALF on her following an argument. She was completely perplexed as to why I just couldn't give her a new phone since I "had both the pieces".

[Shards]

My friend and co-worker C, who kinda recruited me into the lifeguard thing, and I are planning on dropping his old phone off a 6 story parking garage soon. This being because he gets a phone upgrade within the next week, and we want to see if the old thing will still work after being dropped 6 stories into a grass field. We doubt it, but it'll be fun to try.

[Skrae]

You wanna hear about freak accident? How's this?

I swear to god my house is haunted, there are things that I've set on my desk perfectly fine before I go to sleep, and when I wake up, they've broken in some way. Where I set them, there's no way they could have broken (nothing on top of them, nothing to fall on them, etc). So far it's only been two things, my finger armor, and my old phone (a RAZR V3T, and while I hated it with a passion, I wasn't about to go and break something that served a purpose).

So anyway, I set my phone on the desk before bed, perfectly intact, no way for it to get broken, closed, etc. When I woke up the next day, part of the hinge had broken off and I've no idea how it happened, nor any idea how it even could have happened. Same with my finger armor, set it on my desk one night, the next day when I woke up, the ring part of it had broken in the middle, making it so I can no longer wear it.

[PossJB]

trying to dry it out in the microwave
spilling coffee on it

I have an amazingly basic LG phone. I've dropped it into a puddle at least twice (fully submerged). The screws that hold the circuitry in place have come out. It's been dropped from varying heights onto concrete, tile, and ashphalt more times than I can count, and the damn thing still works. The only problem is that it will shot off if you flex it wrong. That does, however, make it easy to turn off. Just put your nail in the charge slot and pull up. The connection to the battery will separate.

[karath]

I make sure to get protective cases for all my electronics for that exact purpose...I have a bad habit of tossing things around, and more often than not that is my, say, ipod or cell phone. With the casing they probably last about 10 times longer than should given the abuse I put 'em through

...But man, those were some CRAZY reasons there. *watches faith in humanity take another drop*

[Chromatix]

I have belt pouches for my phones, so they *never* fall out - except the new iPhone. Since that's a different shape from my old(er) Nokias, I still have to find something to fit it. Perhaps an armband, so I can use it for navigating on my bike.

[Peppergirl]

Putting it in the oven when you are drunk

Wow. I think I lost a couple of IQ points just now.

Sad part is, Im ashamed to say I could totally see myself doing that, once upon a time.

I'm really, REALLY glad cell phones didn't exist back in my heavy drinking/partying days.

[cinema guy]

Isn't putting it in the oven the logical solution to the: toilet dropping, kayak leaving, cat pissing, friend pissing , and all the other liquid shenanigans.