[EVO 4G General] Samzebian:
Well, first of all I'd like to say this: He pays for a warranty, he's got the right to use it how he sees fit. That's the way I see it, who gives a crap if BestBuy/HTC/Sprint/Whoever loses money, they screw over the consumer no matter what anyways.

How much profit do you think they make every month on our Sprint plans? Or what about the amount of people who got pissed off because HTC put a cap on our FPS? (or the gpu driver debacle form 3 years ago, I was one of those VERY DISGRUNTLED AT&T tilt owners!) They wouldn't spend a little $ on developing GPU drivers for WinMo and spent months to uncap the FPS when XDA devs practically did it for them several months prior! And what about Best Buy, they make so much money on inflated prices on everything! (PC repair = ridiculous, I charge much less to fix a PC! $25 for a printer cable? WTF?!

Asurion and all insurance companies make a ton of money at the end of the day, so many people (like myself) pay for insurance for peace of mind yet hardly (or never) use it, resulting in them getting pure profit!

I have yet to use my TEP that I've payed for several months now, so I'm basically throwing my money away. But I plan on using my insurance at least one time, because otherwise it's pointless to pay for it. Maybe right before my contract ends I'll 'lose' my phone to keep my Evo for a cool android PDA and sell the replacement one to cover part of the cost of my upgrade phone. Why not, I pay my TEP every month and they still make money. Even if I didn't do this, the TEP plan is still going to go up every couple of years, inflation and the greed of insurance companies will assure this. So trust me, by you not 'committing' "insurance fraud" won't lower (or keep) tep prices at all! So stop acting like it will! I mean what are you, a boy scout? Your thinking would only make sense if these companies didn't make as much profit or do the things they did, but that will never happen. Let the guy use what he pays for, rather than waste his money on peace of mind.

You say that he made a mistake by not reading enough? Like you also say, **** happens. The thing is, if I'm not mistaken, people ruin their 4G by either flashing a 4g Radio from someone else's phone with a different Mac address, or they try to upgrade their PRI which sometimes randomly screwed WiMax for some people. In other words, **** happened. This guy most likely read aplenty, and **** just ended up happening for him. I mean, accidental damage covers accidents, and unless he intentionally screwed his phone's 4g for some kind of insurance benefits, then it would be considered an accident, an unintentional breakage of his phone. I'm sure Assurion or Sprint wouldn't cover this because it's software modding, but ethically speaking it should be covered anyways, as it is an "accident".

Like I say above, TEP prices will rise no matter what. "He should man up"? I'm pretty sure if you did the same thing, and you had the options of either getting another evo (this time unsubsidized for $500) or making an insurance claim, you'd do the insurance claim. We're not really paying for his mistakes, we're paying the damn insurance company's greed. And he's not technically lying if he says 4G no longer works, he's just not mentioning the reason as to why. (no I am not a lawyer even though I may sound like it because I keep using loopholes to make things make sense, like my last sentence. lol)

I don't believe that the this week's TEP customer will have any warrantable problems repaired for free, I think it's a $35 charge to get it fixed in-store rather than from the manufacturer. If this is true, I think this is BS, I have had a TEP since I joined sprint for the Evo, payed $42 so far in TEP charges for 6 months and now they want me to pa $35 to replace my phone, even though the cracked power button is not my fault and is a known common issue? At AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile, my phone would just immediately be replaced! I've never once even used my warranty yet, so why am I just throwing away money!?

If I am mistaken then my points are moot and ignore them.

Best buy's black tie plan is amazing, I went through 3 laptop upgrades in a row every year because my first laptop fell down the stairs, 2nd got run over by my mom's car, and 3rd one fell off my trunk to my driveway. I even have the plan on my camcorder, but since I got my phone via radioshack I wasn't able to get blacktie for it, henceforth I'm a TEP customer.

BTW, that long story? it's here: http://goo.gl/kPMD