Need help to make screen inoperable

[Blenjar]

Flat Screen Monitor Replacement Plan
One-time replacement if your flat screen monitor becomes inoperable during the first 2 years from the date of product purchase.

Screen is a sitting duck in my room..its a 17 inch and worth 250 bux. I dont want it, I want to buy a GPS with that money. I don't want to sell it cuz im losing money. I bought the insurance for a reason when I worked their.

How can I break it in a way that it looks legit?
I want my screen to malfunction. Any clean way to do it? Opening the machine and fukin it up is the last thing I'll do but ya.
Any tips?
I'll not break it, I want it to malfuntion***

-- Blen

[Kaotic Lazagna]

oh man, that's tough. i really don't know how to make a screen malfunction. you can try to overheat it some how, possibly messing something up in side and/or poping a pixel.

[Blenjar]

I guess opening it and cutting a wire up or something..lol...just gotta make sure it doesn't look like it was open.

-- Blen

[Kaotic Lazagna]

i wouldn't open it, it'll be way too hard to make it look like you didn't (unless you really have skills). heh.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

try to make some pixels pop (actually, a lot of them)

[jdubau55]

Feed it 220v instead of 110v. You could easily make a plug with female 110 on one end and a male 220 plug on the other for cheap. Not completely sure that would work i feel confident it would fry all kinds of stuff.

[Blenjar]

hahahaha lmao thats genious!!!

-- Blen

[punch]

Originally Posted by Blenjar

Flat Screen Monitor Replacement Plan
One-time replacement if your flat screen monitor becomes inoperable during the first 2 years from the date of product purchase.

Screen is a sitting duck in my room..its a 17 inch and worth 250 bux. I dont want it, I want to buy a GPS with that money. I don't want to sell it cuz im losing money. I bought the insurance for a reason when I worked their.

How can I break it in a way that it looks legit?
I want my screen to malfunction. Any clean way to do it? Opening the machine and fukin it up is the last thing I'll do but ya.
Any tips?
I'll not break it, I want it to malfuntion***

-- Blen

umm please read the warrenty, "replacement" is the key word, they don't give you cash, they give you another monitor, probably a refurbished unit also.

[Blenjar]

I get store credit to buy my GPS.

-- Blen

[ChinoCharles]

-slaps forehead-

What are we gonna do with you Blen.

EBAY YOU FUCKING CROOK!

[Dragonacc]

I agree with echo hrs.

You'll probably just end up breaking the thing and being SOL because they'll figure out you busted it on purpose.

Definitely don't use 220v on it, that wouldn't meet "proper use" guidelines and your warranty will be denied for sure.

Bottom line, things don't "magically" break, that's why buying warranties on consumer electronics is a rip.

[Yaris Revenge]

I don't see why the 220V wouldn't work? How would they prove he was responsible for the voltage spike? It could just as easily have been lightning, or a car crash blowing a transformer on a power pole, right? Pretty sure you're not required by law to use a surge protector.

All it would take is a 110v plug end, a 220v plug end, and the wire between. Presto! A 220-110v adapter.

~YR

[Yaris Revenge]

Sounds like he bought the store warranty though. Any time I've ever taken something back to an electronics store under warranty, the just accept it and give a credit/replacement. I've never seen them actually check one out beforehand. And how would they know it was high voltage that burned it up? Could easily have been a weak component... they can fry with the correct voltage.

It's certainly risky, but if you're going to do SOMETHING to it, I would say the 220v adapter is the safest, most realistic bet.

~YR

[jdubau55]

If its a protection plan through the store then he's golden. I've had a protection plan on a TV and they dont really ask questions they just fix it or replace it.

[Dragonacc]

I guess in the end some people are just more ethical than others...

[jdubau55]

Or more thrifty.....depends on how you look at it.

[Dragonacc]

Originally Posted by jdubau55

Or more thrifty.....depends on how you look at it.

Ethical -

Adjective

* S: (adj) ethical (of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics) "ethical codes"; "ethical theories"
* S: (adj) ethical (conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior) "an ethical lawyer"; "ethical medical practice"; "an ethical problem"; "had no ethical objection to drinking"; "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants"- Omar N. Bradley
* S: (adj) ethical, honorable, honourable (adhering to ethical and moral principles) "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"

Read into it however you like.

[KS SOLO]

You can slice and dice words all you want, intentionally breaking something so you can collect is fraud. And planning on how to do it, and asking how to do it without getting caught just amplifies your guilt. Sorry to sound like preaching, but it just seems like a bad idea. Take the high road!

LD