{"id":490364,"date":"2010-03-30T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003890"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:16:15","slug":"apple-sends-you-a-check-for-a-hd-you-replaced-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490364","title":{"rendered":"Apple Sends You A Check For A HD You Replaced Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3-30-2010%2012-12-36%20PM-thumb-173x219-38728.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Reader photoguy622 wants to let us know that<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/warning-your-older-macbooks-hard-drive-may-self-destruct-at-any-time.html\"> our article<\/a> helped him get some money from Apple for his broken hard drive. He&#8217;d fixed it himself, but Apple has a free repair program he didn&#8217;t know about. <\/p>\n<p>photoguy622 says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just wanted to write and let you know that based on the story you had published about Apple replacing defective MacBook hard drives. I was able to get the money back I had personally spent on a replacement drive.<\/p>\n<p>I pre-ordered my MacBook in the spring of 2006 and payed extra for an 80GB hard drive.  About 2 years after I purchased it my hard drive broke.  Instead of having it repaired through Apple, since it was out of warranty, I purchased a 250GB Western Digital replacement drive for $ 103 and did the work myself.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing your story on the MacBook&#8217;s hard drives I called Apple and was told that there was nothing they could do for me over the phone and that I should go to a genius bar.  The genius bar told me that since I did not have the work done through Apple, and I destroyed the old drive, there was nothing they could do for me either.  At this point I decided my best option was to write Apple a letter about the problem and include a copy of the replacement hard drive&#8217;s receipt.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after mailing the letter I received a call from Apple and they are sending me a check for replacement drive&#8217;s cost.  Very nicely done Apple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader photoguy622 wants to let us know that our article helped him get some money from Apple for his broken hard drive. He&#8217;d fixed it himself, but Apple has a free repair program he didn&#8217;t know about. photoguy622 says: I just wanted to write and let you know that based on the story you had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}