"3rd Party" display iPhone 5

I recently went inside the apple store here in texas to see as to why my iPhone wouldn't charge correctly. Last year I had the same problem and someone was able to just clean the phone and tried it out and it worked fine. This time it was fairly busy, and one of the apple reps decided just to help me without an appointment. I told him the problem and he asked around for what looked like a sim card remover. After receiving one and started to use it to clean the charging port. I asked him if that was safe for the phone since it was a pointed metal tool. He stated, "It's fine, as long as I don't hit the charging prongs".  Afterwards he did not bother to test to see if this in fact fixed my problem. Since it was back to school, he seemed very busy and just let me go on my way. Arriving home, several hours later I needed to charge my phone since it had died. Trying to charge it it did not work at all. Prior to going to the apple store, my phone would charge with the charger at a certain angle. A little frustrated I was wondering if the guy at the store had made me fry my phone since usually if the phone dies it still displays the battery asking to be plugged in. The display was completely black. The next day, I went back to the same apple store and asked about my issue. They took my phone to the back and eagerly tried to tell me my phone had a 3rd party display. The serial number on my display box was not the same as the one apple uses. I was confused because I have never fixed my phone in the whole two years that I have had it. I bought this phone from best buy on September 21st, the day the iphone 5 first dropped. I had it reserved and bought brand new with apples wrapping packaging stil on it. They said that they could not help me at all since it was a 3rd party display even though I have never gotten my phone fixed. They even stated maybe I had "forgotten" that I had it fixed. Already frustrated he even said that what his apple rep did would not have effected my display. My question is, has there ever been any issue with having a different serial number on the parts that apple uses or the phone it self?

Most likely used. Apple does not sell parts exect to AASPs who are not allowed to resell them.

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