Should i send iphone back?

Question

i have about 3 stuck/dead pixels on my screen none of them are in the middle they are all around the side. Im getting a empty box to ship mine back in should i take the chances in getting a refurbished one that could be worst then the one i have or keep this one?

Answer 1

I also have gone through three new phones so its really a preference.
I have never actually gotten a refurbished product but i have heard the same thing from two different companies one being apple.
With refurbished products you are getting all working parts, while some of them may be from a seperate phone and "used" while the broken feature will be replaced with a working part whether new or from another phone.(ex. screen from a phone with cracked back plastic, and a proccesor from a phone with a broken speaker put into your refurbished phone, or just a brand new piece). So while thats sounds kind of shaddy, which puts me in the wrong mindset for some reason, there is actually a better chance that phone will work to perfection.
The two different techs told me that when they complete a refurb product, it goes through 8-12 times more testing than a new phone. When they test new phones, of the assembly line they do it for basic features like turning on, running basic programs and say checking the accelerometer because they use the assumption that the pieces should be working order. With a refurb they over test to make sure things work together and especially the parts that were faulty before hand.
Again im no expert but i had two different companies give me roughly the same explanation for how the refurbs work. But then again you can probably just go to an apple store and they will swap it out.