Why bother?
I ordered a phone from Frank 2 years ago. I went for top of the range condition which was mint at the time.
Within a month, the battery capacity was already at 86%. Granted, when I first received the phone it was at 90%. This still was still underwhelming as I had gone for top of the range ‘mint’ offering (they didn’t have the prime offering back then).
In that same time period, the charging port began failing. Firstly, it would randomly stop charging, leading to me unplugging and plugging an assortment of charge cables back in repeatedly until the phone ‘recognised’ the cable. Eventually, this turned into a notice which said liquid was detected within, which actually worked out better because when this notice appears - you have an option to override it, in case of emergency. Nonetheless, I contacted Frank to see what could be done. To be fair, they were quite pleasant and offered me a swap out. The issue I had with this was that I took on all responsibility for damages in transport or if it got wet during transport (considering my phone was displaying liquid within I thought this could be an easy cop out for Frank) plus I’d be without a phone for the 3 days freight there and 3 days freight back to me.
I came to the conclusion that given the risk involved and the time I’d be without a phone, I was better off getting my charging port replaced at a local shop. Yet, it was seriously underwhelming having ordered the best condition phone from Frank and having 2 major issues within a month of purchase.
It’s now time for me to buy another phone and needless to say, I won’t be going back to Frank. I’ll be going to my local shop where I can see the battery health life % prior to sale and take it back without any risk or delay if something goes wrong.
It raises a question, why bother purchasing from Frank in the first place?