Screen Broke--Easiest way to Repair/Replace?

[trajen]

I dropped my iPhone, the screen is totally cracked to ****, but it still works.

I called the Apple store and they said they could replace the screen for $250.

I checked eBay and cracked-screen 1st gens go for $120-ish. NIB go for as much as $700, cheapest I could find was $380.

Since I've unlocked for T-Mobile, my plan is this: I'm going to buy the $70 Apple Care iPhone extended warranty, wait a few weeks and then call the Apple store again and make an appointment regarding my iPhone's battery, which has not been able to keep a good charge lately. As I enter the store I will freak out and explain that I just barely dropped the phone, and since my issue was regarding the battery in the first place, they will replace it for me.

I know it's dishonest to a certain extent, but charging $250 for a cracked screen is an effin joke!

Has anyone else experienced a screen breaking? If so, what did you do?

 

[Gospelfrances]

mmmm i don't think they are gonna replace it with you using it with tmobile, i used to have an unlocked iphone 2g( also usign with tmobile) and one day it stop working, what i did was to go to an apple store and the genius told me that I had to activated it with at&t which I did and they replace it. ( the reason that my iphone stop working was that i was trying to remove the sim and by mistake i put the needle in the audio jack and it stop working the touchscreen upps)

 

[trajen]

mmmm i don't think they are gonna replace it with you using it with tmobile, i used to have an unlocked iphone 2g( also usign with tmobile) and one day it stop working, what i did was to go to an apple store and the genius told me that I had to activated it with at&t which I did and they replace it. ( the reason that my iphone stop working was that i was trying to remove the sim and by mistake i put the needle in the audio jack and it stop working the touchscreen upps)

Do you speak English? All I have to tell them is that I canceled my at&t account and only use the phone for browsing and emailing and listening to music.

 

[Diseal3]

Do you speak English? All I have to tell them is that I canceled my at&t account and only use the phone for browsing and emailing and listening to music.

Dude watch your tone he wuz trying to help you... Begger's cant be choosers. It pays just to buy a new phone. Most of the cost of the phone is the LCD display.

 

[trajen]

Dude watch your tone he wuz trying to help you... Begger's cant be choosers. It pays just to buy a new phone. Most of the cost of the phone is the LCD display.

Will they repair mine for $250 even though I unlocked it? I guess I should just restore it and pop out the t-mobile sim.