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Start a blog on technology and gadgets, sell advertising on it.

Buy and sell on Ebay or go to the local charity store and sell the stuff on kijiji.

:D

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Join a local FB buy and sell site and fix cell phone screens. The amount of people that constantly ask" does anone know who fixes screens in XYZ area" never ceases to amaze me.

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Really? Is it that common? How on earth do the screens get damaged. In twenty years of mobile phone usage I've never damaged a screen and only once seen someone else with a damaged screen.

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Common enough for cell phone repair businesses to be offering 30 minute turn around for replacement screens.

I dropped my iPhone on my bare foot a couple of weeks ago. The screen shattered.

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The new one looks like it's even more prone to shattering.

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I don't know either ...... And i'm a teenager who usually doesn't have his mobile in a case. And I've never shattered my screen. But I do always get the accidental damage protection in case someone else does.

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This is a good one... :) Takes a while for money to trickle in though. But, I am on the computer all day anyways :D

Someone I know does this and makes a huge profit LOL! :D

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The accidental damage protection is the biggest scam going. Quit while you are young and save yourself a fortune. Better yet, every time you are offered it, reject it and put the same amount/payment into an RRSP. You can thank me in fifty years.

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But what do I do if it actually breaks? At that point my only option is to fork out $800 for a new one.

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How much is the insurance?

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$99. It lasts for 2 years, and if I break it, it costs $50 to replace it and I can do it twice. The max it could cost me is $200. I've never had to claim against it. The one time I did (stupid kid knocked it out of my hand at a fair), I fudged a problem with the Wi-Fi antenna so I wouldn't have to pay the $50. I never keep a phone longer than 7-12 months so its enough.

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In the UK, my husband and I had a paid bank account that had phone insurance included as one of the benefits. We paid 12 quid a month for a joint account, and that covered 2 phones each with a 25quid deductible. Husband had his iPhone 3GS stolen (so that was a few years ago); the bank couldn't replace it as the phone wasn't available anymore, so he got a cheque for 600quid to cover the cost. A year later he left his phone in a cab; again, had the insurance replace it, they mailed him a new one about a week or so later.

I dropped my iPhone 4 after getting pushed in a pub and shattered the back glass. Had that repaired by insurance. Then with my HTC, the battery started acting up and wasn't lasting a full day anymore; I sent it off for repair, had a new one back a week later.

So 4 phones either paid out or replaced for a total of 100quid in deductibles. We also had travel insurance with that bank account, as well as a few other bits covered. So that was totally worth it.

Now that I'm on a Nexus 5, and my husband on a Moto G, we have opted for self-insurance; the low price of those phones isn't worth the insurance premiums.

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Wow that's awesome! Wish we had something of the sorts here. Although Telus has the option of having the insurance as an addon for $6/month, rather than paying $99 upfront, but it only makes sense for us because with all the discounts and credits I've built up, its basically free.

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Right. So the cell phone thread has drifted to teenagers and "kids these days" and this one has drifted to cell phones. :lol: