hi,

i am one of the stupid guys, who dropped their iphones into water (at least it was a beautiful alpine lake here in austria/europe).

my question - can anyone confirm the following apple discussion post:
"Water damage is not covered under warranty, but you can have your iPhone "repaired" for $249 plus tax, which will be an exchange for a new or refurbished iPhone. The exchange will include a one year warranty"

this comes from a guy with 24,674 (!) posts ... but it is still the only one ....
is this really how it works ? you bring it /send it in and they exchange it ... no questions asked ?

another problem:
it is a turbo-sim unlocked 112 iphone (yes ... too lazy to try out the new stuff), which i might have to send to apple (where, how ?) or ask a friend to take it to an apple store. are they going to notice, that it was hacked (with a dead phone probably not) and how are they going to react .....?

thx to the experiences apple store users for their opinions.

greetings from austria
peter

AFAIK, $249 is the "just do it" fee. As far as the store is concerned, you're paying for having screwed the iPhone up in some way: unlock gone bad, lake, whatever.

You may want to install the AT&T SIM (or "forget it" at home) first, though, but I don't think you'll have a problem.

thanks for your reply.

just to give you feedback:
a friend just took my iphone to the states and to an apple store, where they would not even touch it when they found out, that there was no at&t-cared in it (which i "forgot" to to leave in the phone).

strange behaviour ... he was willing to pay the 249$, buy a new wired and a new bluetooth headset. but they just ignored him .... "bring it with the original sim-card and we will serve you ..."

so he had to return to austria with the unfunctional iphone and i will keep on using my old se-p1.

i liked my iphone, but not enough to let apple humilate me because of my stupidity.

Originally Posted by ringthebell

…they would not even touch it when they found out, that there was no at&t-cared in it (which i "forgot" to to leave in the phone).

strange behaviour ... he was willing to pay the 249$, buy a new wired and a new bluetooth headset. but they just ignored him .... "bring it with the original sim-card and we will serve you ..."

Wow... that's strange, and quite annoying. I am sorry to have misled you.