Today, I got my phone back after bringing it in to get a crack in the screen repaired. The crack is fixed, but now the touch screen doesn't work and it won't connect to the Internet. I essentially paid to have my phone broken even more. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got my phone fixed after the screen had been shattered for four months straight. Then, the moment they handed it to me, it fell straight to the floor and shattered. Again. FML
Today, I helped friends move home, and since we couldn't all fit in their car I took the bus. While waiting, my new phone slipped and crashed on the floor. It now has a cracked screen right between my two overpriced phone protectors. FML
Today, I stood in line for one hour to get a new phone. It then took me 2 minutes to drop it and shatter the screen, and 2 seconds for the employee to look at, laugh, and tell me, "That Sucks." FML
Today, after calling the insurance plan for my new iPhone a "huge waste of money", I promptly dropped it in the store while trying to put it into my pocket, cracking the screen. FML
Today, my history teacher confiscated my iPhone. She dropped it on the way back to her desk, and I now have a shattered iPhone screen to fix. FML
Today, after having lost my phone three days ago, I paid a $150 non-refundable fee to have my phone replaced and mailed to me by Tuesday. A half hour later, I found my original phone. FML
Today, after getting my phone fixed last week because my daughter dropped it and it landed on a corner, I dropped it again at the dog park and several big dogs fighting with my dog stepped on it. One of them cracked the screen again. FML
Today, I used a prank app, where you shake the cell, and it makes the screen looks cracked. I ended up losing my grip on the phone. It went flying, and it is now cracked for real. FML
Today, my phone stopped charging. I panicked because I can't really afford to get it fixed, and it's too stressful a time at my last semester at university to not have a phone. I took it to the repair shop, and the man turned it off and on again. it works perfectly. I'm a total idiot. FML
Today, my brother got mad at me for breaking the screen on his phone. He'd already dropped it so many times that the whole screen was cracked to the point that you couldn't see anything on it, but for some reason, I am fully responsible for its destruction because I accidentally delivered the finishing blow. FML
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Zelphoric 25
Yeah, that's definitely not okay. Go back and make them fix it again-- correctly this time
senor_octubre 24
Exact same thing happened to me. I just took it back to the repair place showed them the problem and they fixed it for free.
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Comments (49)
that_snowflake 22
Eh who needs a phone that works properly anyway?
Miss_Whipped 43
Yeah I know the woes of the repair/replacement process. My boyfriend and I went in on Friday to get his home button repaired. When we came back later to pick up the phone, they replaced the whole display and the home button STILL had issues. So we tell the guy working that it was still not working as expected and he had this attitude and said, "Well we could replace it but it wouldn't make sense." No bitch, what DOESN'T make sense is repairing the screen when the issue is with the home button. Goodness knows you don't back down when it's your phone. Make them fix that shit the right way, OP!
ollygollymolly 6
If it's an Apple product then take it back. They're pretty good at acknowledging when they make a mistake and then replacing the product or fixing it for free.
Miss_Whipped 43
Of course they will. They have to. They have a policy stating if you experience issues with the device within 90 days of a repair, you can bring it back and they will repair/replace it for free. (This doesn't apply if you accidentally damage the phone AFTER the repair.)
brose180158 9
Make them fix it free of charge, and if they refuse, sue their ass back to the Stone Age.
MrLonelyHertz 23
Can't really do that unless it's in their contract that OP can get that kind of privilege, I'm assuming that OP has a contract, other than a prepaid phone. Otherwise, I'd say they're better off just buying a new phone.
mariri9206 32
Definitely take it back to them and tell/show them what's going on. More often than not and, if they're a reputable business that cares about having good customer service and recommendations, they'll fix it for free. If not, take it somewhere else and write a yelp review to warn others they may not be the best.
RedCronos 17
I usually try learning how to fix things on my own. Works most of the time and it's cheaper.
ViviMage 40
My iPhone battery exploded and basically crushed the guts in my phone body. I tried a few places but the damage was too severe, or they didn't fix Apple, and kept sending me to the Apple Store. I got a new iPhone for free from the Apple Store. The Battery exploding like that was not something I could have done by myself or fix myself.
gordjess1 19
Yeah happened to me. Well not exactly the same. My screen completely screwed up and wasn't even able to read anything because it was just green. Took it back and they 'fixed it' because I'd had no problems apart from the crack. Then my screen kept popping out. Apparently I wasn't the only one that had issues with the place I went to. They had a 30 day warranty. In that time I took my phone back 10 times. Eventually they superglued- yes superglued my screen down. Which has now bent my phone and it didn't hold so I have to constantly keep gluing it down myself. I think I'd prefer my barely cracked screen. Long story but the point is people suck and I'll never trust a repair place again.
Bonafonte 24
Normally they should offer a warranty for a certain amount of time, so you should just go back and get it fixed (free, of course :)) Good luck, OP!
fireymum 5
This has happened to me before. It took nearly 2 hrs of arguments to get them to admit that it was faulty & that they'd done it (claimed it must have been something I'd done b4 I'd dropped it off, as I checked it b4 I left the store). Turns out, they'd damaged the LCD screen in the glass repair, & it was time consuming & expensive for them to fix. Long story short, I ended up getting it repaired at no cost to me, but it took me 3 weeks to get my phone back in working order due to them 'having to order in the LCD screen' as they supposedly didn't keep 1 in stock!