Help! Warranty void, I don't know what to do!?!?!

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So after a long time of dealing with issuses with my Macbook Pro, I finally decided enough was enough and to send it in for repairs under warranty. Problems with it were as follows:
Heat:
At 100 percent CPU useage for both cores my computer was reaching up to 204F (or around 100C) in temperature. It was getting so hot I burned my hand on it.
Battery:
Throughout the time that I have owned the computer, which was since march of this year, the battery capacity has deminished greatly. I use a program called coconut battery to monitor this. I also used my own personal observation, where by this point I was only getting an hour battery life after a full charge. I only have about 45 load cycles on the battery.
Other:
There were also issues like the screen being slightly warped, where the right corner was not completely lining up with the left, and the chrome on the button on the front of the computer having mostly warn off...but I told them if they atleast got the heat and battery fixed I'd be happy. The representative who I talked to definately seemed to agree with me that the issues I was having would be covered under the warranty.
So, I sent the computer in and as of today I got a call saying that there was liquid spill damage, and that the warranty was void. If I wanted it repaired they would have to replace the logic board, the superdrive, the battery, and some other things I can't remember for a grand total of 1200 dollars. Here I am, a poor college student that has been an avid mac user for most of my life, telling people how great macs are and convincing people to buy them but only having a little 500mhz ibook on loan from my parents, and only by pure luck had some family members help me out to buy this computer for school. Then to hear that nothing is covered and that I am supposed to come up with 1200 dollars SOMEHOW, just because some liquid got on the computer.
This so called liquid damage that they are reffering to probably occured when I was working and had my computer on the desk...someone must have been drinking a coke cause when I came back there was a coke can on its side, but not exactly very close to the computer, and the liquid had seeped underneath the machine. When I picked the mac up there was liquid on the bottom of it, but only because those little useless rubber standoffs they put on the bottom of these Macbook Pro's was not high enough to be above the thickness of a water based liquid as it runs across a desk. At that point I promptly had unplugged the battery from my computer and the power cable and dried it all off. From that day no NEW problems had surfaced, the battery and heat issue had already existed.I didn't expect that any should because the liquid had only reached the bottom side of the computer and it was shut off quickly.
I know of a guy who had an ibook, and he spilled a whole can of coke while he was driving into the keboard while it was on. When the computer then shut itself off because it just couldn't operate with so much soda in its guts, the guy then tried to turn it back on!! No response of course, but that night we took it completely appart, dried out every component and put it back together. The thing booted up perfectly. So it makes me VERY mad when they tell me everything wrong with my mac is due to a liquid spilling on it!
Is there anything I can do? Any legal recourse I can take to get this resolved? Anyone who knows anything about this please let me know. Thanks!

Answer 1

This so called liquid damage that they are reffering
to probably occured when I was working and had my
computer on the desk...someone must have been
drinking a coke cause when I came back there was a
coke can on its side, but not exactly very close to
the computer, and the liquid had seeped underneath
the machine. When I picked the mac up there was
liquid on the bottom of it, but only because those
little useless rubber standoffs they put on the
bottom of these Macbook Pro's was not high enough to
be above the thickness of a water based liquid as it
runs across a desk. At that point I promptly had
unplugged the battery from my computer and the power
cable and dried it all off. From that day no NEW
problems had surfaced, the battery and heat issue
had already existed.I didn't expect that any should
because the liquid had only reached the bottom side
of the computer and it was shut off quickly.
Where was your desk?
I think you should find the drinker/spiller of the coke.
Getting electronics wet usually kils them, they aren't made water proof or even resistant.
Logic board+super drive+batery=$1200 probably not far off.
Some one owes you 1200 cokes and IMHO it is not Apple.