Restocking fee for exchange

Hello all, had a question regarding exchanging my 16GB iPhone for 32GB iphone and needed clairificaiton. I made a mistake and bought a 16GB iphone and now want to get the 32GB will Verizon charge me a restocking fee if I wanted to exchange? I did read some where that apple was getting rid of the 10% restocking fee but not sure if it applies to verizon and my scenario.
Any input would be helpful.
Thanks

if you bought it from verizon then it's $35...if you bought it from apple then it's up to their policy. they now have to sell it used, which is why they charge the restock fee.

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Restocking Fee for an exchange???

While I understand the need to charge a restocking fee for returns, I find it incredibly ridiculous that we are charged a restocking fee when it is an exchange for the same exact phone. My mother's phone was not working properly so she went to the verizon store to get it exchanged within 14 days as they mentioned, and the representative at our verizon wireless store charged my mother with the restocking fee in order to exchange her less-than-14-day old phone for another phone.
Then what she witnessed afterwards is disappointing. The phone that she had turned in was being wiped down carefully and put back into the box. Does that mean someone else will buy that phone as a "new" phone even though it was not working properly?
We almost feel as if we were scammed into getting a bad phone at first and then exchanged for a good phone afterwards.
Is this just an over-imaginative thought or does this seem highly possible for a company that will nickel and dime you at every thing possible.
This is upsetting as I've been with the company for a very long time and will have to consider other options when my contract ends soon.

Sounds like you were at a Verizon Wireless Authorized Premium Retailer and not a Verizon Wireless Corporate store. Retailers are owned and operated independently of Verizon Wireless. All of the inventory in those stores is paid for by the proprietor out of pocket. They have to sell it. They shouldn't get away with putting a returned phone, defective or not, into a box and reselling it to someone else but it does happen.
At a corporate store if you have a defective device (very rare but it happens) and it needs to be exchanged for the same exact phone within 14 days there is no fee.
There are a couple of ways you can tell the difference between the two types of stores. First, below the big Verizon Wireless logo it will say Authorized Premium Retailer or the name of another company. Most people miss this when walking into one of these locations. Second, usually the phones on display are fake or non-working models. Third, your receipt is usually printed on 8 1/2" x 11" paper and not on regular receipt paper. It's a shame but I would call VZW customer support and see what can be done. When you purchase at one of these locations you must take it back there within the first 14 days. It's the same as if you went to Best Buy. After the first 14 days these locations won't even help you and they will direct you to a corporate store anyway. In which case a defective device is replaced with a Certified Like New Replacement no matter where it was originally purchased.

Restocking fee for faulty EXCHANGE?

lets say a unit is faulty to some degree and it is taken back as purchased with recipt to apple store for a replacement, not a return... is there a re-stocking fee?
thank you.

As a ln At&t rep i can tell you that we are not processing exchanges in the store for defective iphones. Apple has made it clear to us that all phone related problems are to be forwarded to the apple iphone service hotline or corporate apple stores. The 10% restocking fee for iphone exchanges would only apply if one opened the phone and then decided to exchange it for another make of phones. All service and iphone for iphone exchanges are handled by apple, per there directive.
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call Best Buy. This forum is not for questions about Best Buys policies.

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Surprisingly, Toshiba says that my ordered but not yet delivered laptops is subject to a 15% restocking fee. If at all, I think that at least I need to pay less for a restocking fee when I canceled my order before shipping.
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I bought my iPhone4 3 days ago and had to get an exchange because of a faulty on my iPhone. However, they gave me a refurbished one. I don't want to take this, so that I want to get a refund and buy a new one.
I remember Apple had waived the restocking fee, but I don't know they still keep that policy.
Does anyone know about it? If it sill applies, when are they going to change the policy?

An exchange under warranty is called a service unit and is provided in a plain box with the iPhone only regardless if new or refurbished and there should be no way to tell the difference. An exchange under warranty includes the iPhone only since all other package contents included with the retail sales box do not need to be exchanged.
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Restocking fee??

Is there one or not? I got a restock fee for $29

iPhone Return Policy
If you are not fully satisfied with your iPhone purchase, you can return your undamaged iPhone to the Apple Online Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. Please visit online Order Status or call 1-800-676-2775 to request a return. If you return your iPhone within 30 calendar days from shipment, you will not be charged a restocking fee. The iPhone must be returned in the original packaging, including any accessories, manuals, and documentation.
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html#iphonereturns
I'd call them. I returned mine to apple.com last week and they put the reason as 'changed mind' instead of what I really reported with the proximity sensor issue. I haven't received my refund yet.

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ATT restocking fee - waived after press conference ??

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Only AT&T can answer your question for sure. Did you phone AT&T customer service to ask them? I assume you checked online to see if there was notice of policy change from AT&T (I just checked and saw no such notice).
If you are asking for experience of others - I can say that I returned my iP4 to AT&T this week and was charged the restocking fee (after my best effort to have it waived based on it being an Apple product and Apple's policy to waive)

Can I exchange for new if I pay restock fee?

Sorry to cross post, but not getting answers in the other forum
My wife and I bought new iPhones 3Gs on monday to replace our originals.
I have had nothing but troubles.
The first unit, the hold button broke and retreated into the shell - they exchanged it.
The second unit, the screen is WAY too yellow, ever after the update. Also, I have not been receiving calls. I went to genius and talked to AT&T, they say everything is working fine. Missing calls is not happening while in the stores. Keep saying let us know if I keep having issues, etc. I think the phone is a lemon, my wife's 3G phone is perfect.
I work as a freelancer and my phone is my lifeline...I need a fix.
If i go back to the Apple store, and pay the restocking fee, can I just exchange for a brand new phone? The 30 bucks is worth potentially solving this problem.

Even if someone were to give you an answer to this, The Apple Store would have to agree in order for it to actually happen.
It's probably best to give the Apple Store a call.
Hopefully someone has actually tried this and can give you an actual answer, but barring that you'll have to ask Apple.
Sorry. Hope you get an answer.

I purchased an iPhone 5S using my EDGE upgrade on September 5, but would like to exchange it for an iPhone 6 within the 14 day period. Other than having to pay the $35 restocking fee, will I have any problems doing so? Thanks

I purchased an iPhone 5S using my EDGE upgrade on September 5, but would like to exchange it for an iPhone 6 within the 14 day period. Other than having to pay the $35 restocking fee, will I have any problems doing so? Thanks

Good evening udflyers! You should not have any problem returning/exchanging your current within 14 days http://bit.ly/IeiJI of purchase. However, you may have to preorder the device you want as it is not currently available and preorder start on 9/12/14 at 12:01am, PST. Please process your return/exchange thru the same channel as your original purchase.
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I got a IMAC 10 days ago, if the new one comes out what the chances for exchange?

I got a IMAC 10 days ago, if the new one comes out what the chances for exchange?

I'm not sure about a restocking fee, but heard of people returning items for a new or differant one. they said they held your original payment as a credir toward your new order.. I'd just call them and ask. good luck.

Gave up, returned, charged restocking fee

Well folks I've been doing all the research, trying to make the best decision like many of you and after as much "testing" as I can do I've finally given up on having this phone and now must consider my options. I'm in my 14 day window coming over from AT&T and with the switch I'm activating 4 smartphones with Verizon. I was hoping to make this my first Android phone having been an apple user for the last 2 years and for reasons I don't need to go into here I was really excited with the prospects of stepping away from iPhone to give the GNex and the new OS a try. However...
I was unable to really acquire even a 3G signal at my house sitting in the living room on the main floor. The vzw coverage map shows that I should have 4G here and definitely 3G. First call to tech support did all the usual resets with no real changes on signal. And when I say "signal" I mean the phone's ability to actually do something with data. I'm not one to fixate on the signal bar and I simply try to open a web browser, open a few sites and run a speed test to measure upload/download speed. I even went outside my home and walked around the yard to see if I could do any better. Once I was able to get a bar of 3G for a very short time. Tried to open the browser- webpage not avail, speedtest- couldn't complete. Got the communication issues error message. Next I wonder just where this phone will actually work on 3G and if I'm lucky 4G. So I print a map of my town and set out to drive my favorite roads to the places I usually go, stopping at intervals to record my connection results. What I found out is pretty simple. Unless this phone is fairly close to a tower it will not work in 4G mode. And, apparently, it will have a hard time switching to 3G as it seems to be trying to resolve operation in 4G. I make that last statement because of this finding: I was about to box it up after an hour of comparing it to a Razr where the Razr could show 2-3 bars of 3G and open web pages and complete a speed test and I thought I'd dig into the settings again for another look and decided to switch off the CDMA/LTE in favor of CDMA only. I had tried that on the first day and it had no effect. But this time the GNex liked that. It almost immediately found the 3G signal and it then could load a web page and complete a speed test. Sigh.
Well, there are other details but this is getting long so suffice-it-to-say that if you are ok with digging into the settings and switching the network mode manually you might get this thing to work better than what most of us have been experiencing. I'm not in for any more frustration so I returned the phone today. Oh, and by the way, the other smartphones are iPhone 4S's and they have 2-3 bars 3G, usually staying on 3 in the same living room I had the issues with on the GNex. And of course, open web pages and speedtest results are good, better than the razr (in 3G) as I recall but that could have been environmental since those tests were done a day apart.
So the icing on the cake is, and I'd like your opinion, is should I think it to be ok that Verizon charges a restocking fee on a phone that they acknowledge has issues. Most of us agree that a software fix to change how the signal strength is displayed will do nothing to fix the radio issue and real world actual data transmit and receive. I'm not likely to consider wasting too much of my time further arguing for a credit of that restocking fee but I find it aggravating that Verizon would handle this issue in this manner. I've searched quite a bit (next will be a phone call) for a copy of the "worry free guarantee". I'd like to read exactly what that means and how it relates to defective phones. Perhaps that is where the problem lies... to get a phone exchanged without a restocking fee it must be so defective that it is "dead". In this case "defective" is a bit of a grey area so we end up being tagged just a bunch of whiny customers with expectations set too high. Thoughts?

Well, here is where I'm at... and I've commented on a few posts this evening... I'm heading back toward the iPhone path. As much as I wanted to throw some money the android way and as much as I wanted to learn this OS I don't think I can put up with any more frustration right now. I did have some of that with Apple when they said their new iOS5 would work on the earlier phones (3GS) and iPad 1 but that upgrade made my devices pretty bad. Slow to respond, laggy, bigger battery drain, etc. But anyway... the 4S my wife is now using (on VZW) is quite snappy and picks up a good signal. It is getting 3 bars where the GNex usually had none or maybe 1 but never lasted. Now add this line of thinking: If you buy your iPhone from the Apple store I think your customer service experience might be better as well. And I mean if you have issues with the phone. It seems to me that with VZW you get 1 chance to return (+fee) and the second phone you're stuck with. At least that is what I was told. I'm assuming with Apple they will exchange the phone (no fee) and if you do have problem they will at least hook it up and run diagnostics right there in front of you. I had them do that for me on a 3GS. Again, I'm not sold completely on either OS and really wanted to give android a try. Just not sure its time to play beta tester for the 4G network or this hardware. I may wait to see what this new LG Spectrum looks like. Although everywhere I read there are few people who like phones from LG. But the specs indicate it will have a great screen, removable battery and upgradable memory for starters. Good luck getting things worked out.

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