{"id":1433,"date":"2007-03-19T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T13:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/the-limits-of-apples-warranty\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:48:02","slug":"the-limits-of-apples-warranty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/the-limits-of-apples-warranty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Apple&rsquo;s Warranty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/weblogs\/editors\/2007\/03\/mbpservice\/index.php\">Rob Griffiths<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/weblogs\/editors\/2007\/03\/mbpservice\/index.php\">\n<p>Somewhat shocked at the assertion we couldn&rsquo;t go any further unless I pulled out my Visa card, I asked the rep &ldquo;so let me get this straight. I have a machine which is under warranty. But in order to prove to you that it&rsquo;s broken, I have to pay you money first so you can try to fix it over the phone?&rdquo; He replied that I was correct. I then asked what my &ldquo;free&rdquo; repair options were for my broken machine, and there was basically only one: take it to an authorized service center, where they can do the diagnosis and then send it in if it&rsquo;s really hardware.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Griffiths Somewhat shocked at the assertion we couldn&rsquo;t go any further unless I pulled out my Visa card, I asked the rep &ldquo;so let me get this straight. I have a machine which is under warranty. But in order to prove to you that it&rsquo;s broken, I have to pay you money first so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-08T20:48:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"7ee3bd8d-6208-4ea2-a972-102911b023ff","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-08T20:48:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfuO9jWIITqKpchApEbAj_w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,30],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applecare","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26240,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/26240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}