Need a "Liquid Damage" lie Techie in Pta.

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I need someone in Pretoria who can fix a phone which is classified as "liquid damaged" by Vodacare Menlyn.

This phone was never close to water.
The thing that is supposed to turn red is barely pink.

The joke is the telephone is working perfectly barring the red and green buttons.

It is a SonyEricson W910i.

Vodacom insists that SE classified it is BER. I believe somebody is BSing me. The phone is under warranty. They want to get out of it.

I will pay for the repairs. What I will need is a detailed invoice afterwards. I want to nail the lying cheats.

What is Beyond Economic Repair?

My definition is when it is cheaper to buy a new one rather than repairing it. Now that it is liquid damaged they dont have to spent a cent and they are out of it.

Please if anybody can help PM me.
 
It could be that the techie broke something while trying to fix it. I've heard this happen before.
 
The most common cause of liquid damage is from sweaty palms ...

The reason why liquid damage phones become BER is that there is no guarantee that the repairs will be successful or that the phone while not give you cr@p in the future. Also, liquid damage voids all warranties regardless of the extend of damage.

(I use to be a buyer for Cash Converters and found out a lot about this stuff)
 
cbrunsdonza said:
The most common cause of liquid damage is from sweaty palms ...

The reason why liquid damage phones become BER is that there is no guarantee that the repairs will be successful or that the phone while not give you cr@p in the future. Also, liquid damage voids all warranties regardless of the extend of damage.

(I use to be a buyer for Cash Converters and found out a lot about this stuff)
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I dont dispute it.

My viewpoint is that if a phone gets damaged by sweaty palms it is a crappy phone.

Point.
 
I had a phone that worked great and pretty new - never near water or 'sweat'. Also it was a flip so it was pretty well self protected against 'sweat'. The problem was that there was a crumb or a nib of plastic inside the phone that sometimes got under a key and made it a tad difficult to push. So a very minor irritation.

I had a few hours off so I took it to vodashop in Hatfield to see what they could do. They opened it up in the back room and then came back and told me that it was a total write off due to water damage and I needed to buy a new phone immediately. Yeah right. I left (no payment). Because they had opened the phone, they had got rid of that crumb and it was perfect again. lol.

About 3 YEARS later I opened it up (yes bored and I was using it as a spare phone). It was pristine inside and the white dot marker was still white afeter being in my pocket, dropped abused etc etc for years. Lying thieving bastards.

Ironically, about a week after that I dropped it in a glass of coke while on a call. It didn't drop the call and still works today.
 
asshat99 said:
I had a few hours off so I took it to vodashop in Hatfield to see what they could do. They opened it up in the back room and then came back and told me that it was a total write off due to water damage and I needed to buy a new phone immediately. Yeah right. I left (no payment). Because they had opened the phone, they had got rid of that crumb and it was perfect again. lol.
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Oh - I asked to see this water damage. They said they did not allow customers to see phones that are being worked on. :rolleyes:
 
If you have a T6 torx why not fix it yourself?
In most cases taking it apart completely, cleaning it and reassembling it solves button related issues.
 
My mom has has to buy two new phones... cause both time she took it in for repairs they told her the warranty was gone because of "water damage". Which of course was bs.

We later learned that a lot of phones at the coast where there is humidity will react that way.

Cant you just get a white sticker and put it over that? :)
 
Is it only SE phones that has that sticker? I have never seen one in the Nokias I worked on.
 
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