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   Sometimes Helpful

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 16th, 2004 @ 2:38pm

   
   

   Disclaimer: I didn't read the link, but I thought I would put a personal experience here.
   
   I didn't get cellphone insurance and sure enough, my color phone dropped and stopped working. I took it back to the salesman, who signed me up for insurance and told me to come back in a week with the "newly" broken phone.
   
   So did we rip off the phone insurance people. Legally, yeah. Am I a very happy customer to this salesguy and will use him forever if I can? Yep.

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   Anonymous Coward, Mar 17th, 2004 @ 12:01am

   
   

   I used to work in mobile retail in the UK about 7 years ago (although *not* in sales myself, support staff in store) and this sort of stuff was going on then.

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   Re: Sometimes Helpful

   

   thecaptain, Mar 17th, 2004 @ 6:23am

   
   

   am I happy that insurance companies raise their rates to deal with bull like this? You bet I'm not.

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   Re: Sometimes Helpful

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 17th, 2004 @ 11:33am

   
   

   
   I " lose " my cell phone every 6 months to a woman's shelter.
   
   I get a shiny new phone.
   A Charity gets some assistance.
   And the insurance company gets to pay me back for all the money they scam out of me for auto, life, home owners and every other damn thing they can think of.
   
   An industry like insurance that has no morality deserves no morality from me.

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   Re: Sometimes Helpful

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 17th, 2004 @ 1:53pm

   
   

   So you've decided for me that I want to donate money to womens shelters because you force your insurance company to donate to them and they, in turn, just pass that cost on to me.
   Would it in any way upset you if I decided that I'd rather donate my money to other causes (like a new phone for me) and went to the womens shelter and stole some money from them? I assume it would not.

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