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[ekimswish]

My wife's touchscreen LG Viewty we bought back in Jan/2008 recently went wacky. When you started it, it would just repeat the opening sequence on a continual loop. Time for fixing.

So I took it to an LG shop near my house and they told me that I could take it to after-service for fixing, which would take about 3 days and cost 120,000won. Or, I could trade it in for this other phone they showed me, and I would just pay 50,000 won. The phone they showed me was a piece of crap, even though it apparently had a better camera on it, but I decided to let my wife see if maybe there was a nicer phone she would trade for.

The next day my wife and I went to look at trade options, but stopped by the other LG shop down the street first, just to see if the story would remain the same. These guys also wanted to trade, again for a crappy phone and 50k. We asked if there was a touch screen we could trade for, since that's what we had, and they showed us one a year younger than our phone. I thought it looked nice but my wife was skeptical, so I asked them to start it and show it off a bit, maybe to convince the wife.

It wouldn't start. It was broken, too. That's when the salesgirl told me to come back and Monday and she'd bring a phone she had from home, and I just asked again for the details of the after-service center. They said it would cost 100k to fix, and take 3 days, but later their estimate was 70~80k, or just 80k for another crappy phone. By this time I knew the phones I would be trading for were 2nd hand.

I got to the after-service center today, and the fixing guy told me to wait 30 minutes. He took 50. When he was done and I asked how much, he told me nothing, have a nice day.

Anyways, just in case any of you have a broken phone and the shop you go to pushes you to trade and buy, DON'T DO IT! I mean, might be okay if it were a new phone you're getting, since you're paying on top of the trade, but not for a 2nd hand piece of crap. Obviously the shop people knew they could get my phone fixed for free and sell it for 100K or much more (we originally paid 700k in 2008).

So, I hope this helps someone.