Local expert saved me £100

jessegee

I’m so lucky, got an iPad for Xmas. Husband had been saving for a few months, to buy new, even though I’d have been happy with second hand. I carefully kept my new treasure away from the festivities, and was just looking into insurance, when our sweet old dog caught his foot in the ear phone cable, and it snapped off, leaving the metal bit inside. Howl!
No luck getting it all out with tweezers etc, too deep in.
I took it back to the big uk chain store that it had come from, to see what the options were for fixing it, I was advised they could send it to Apple, likely expensive, or I could take out their insurance policy ( cheating, when it’s already damaged) and would cost about £100.
So I took it to our local computer shop, never been in there before, I live in a small town, full of elderly folk, by the seaside. I was greeted by a young hip looking lad, who took it into his clean room, whipped out the broken piece and charged me £2.......
I gave him a fiver and resisted the urge to ring his mum and thank her for raising such a clever lad. Respect!

jshm2

Great story and stresses the importance of local businesses and trades and can always come in handy when in a pinch..... pun not intended.

KeepOnRunning

Cool story, but how did a dog get it's leg into an earphone cable hole?

Norman_Castle

Your post reminded me a friend asked if I could fix her ipad. Just found this which might be useful.
http://www.iphonetopics.com/remove-broken-headphone-jack-iphone-ipad-ipod/

googler

KeepOnRunning wrote: »

Cool story, but how did a dog get it's leg into an earphone cable hole?

"caught his foot in the ear phone cable"

The cable then pulled on the jack plug, and the jack plug fractured between the plastic body (which was outside the socket) and the pin of the plug (which was in the 'hole') leaving the pin behind.

JJ_Egan

As a third party has carried out a repair does this not void Apple warranty and make claims under CR more difficult .

Browntoa

I'm not thinking a repair , more extract broken bit with pliers or a jewellers screwdriver

Nobody will know

System

jshm2 wrote: »

Great story and stresses the importance of local businesses and trades and can always come in handy when in a pinch..... pun not intended.

Wish that applied to roofers where I live :rotfl:

System

JJ_Egan wrote: »

As a third party has carried out a repair does this not void Apple warranty and make claims under CR more difficult .

only if you tell them or the fix is so apparent that Apple can easily determine that someone else has tampered with the iPad