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Well basically i do tech support for my parents and get paid £100 a month. Now heres the catch: i can only use it when necessary, and most is saved up for "university" crap. The only reason my parents are making me use it to buy a  new phone is because my M4 Aqua nearly bruned me, and they dont want to pay for it as well. Is this unfair?  Also, i can only get phones under £300, so a OnePlus Two is my only option 

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What your parents are doing there is very good and you will thank them when you get to university. I don't know your reqirements for a phone, but the Oneplus isn't your only option in that price bracket. There's the Zenphone 2 for example, or the motoG

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No offence but you just sound like you're crying over spilt milk

 

Agreed.

 

OP, time to grow up.

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You're getting paid to help with your parent's computers, and you're complaining? Dude, really?

What do they know of England, who only England know?

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If they bought the phone, it's not fair that you have to pay for it, but if you caused it to, which I don't know how you could do that unless the lithium was exposed to the air, then it's fair. They bought a faulty phone, they should pay for a new one.

Nope it is a CPU fault. and they kinda forced me to upgrade my phone 

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I'll tell you what is unfair, you having the nerve to charge your parents for tech support and they paying a $100 and you not paying for food/rent/utilities/breathing up all the good air.

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You're getting paid to help with your parent's computers, and you're complaining? Dude, really?

 

This is the kind of guy who gets everything, until he doesn't get his own way then the world sucks. OP is getting money to go to uni in a savings account ready for his education so he doesn't struggle yet is crying over buying a fucking phone. People like OP is the reason I rent my own flat for university instead of living in student halls with complete and utter retards who cannot function without mommy, daddy and a bottle of vodka every weekend instead of food, water and clothing.

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Nope it is a CPU fault. and they kinda forced me to upgrade my phone 

Is it overheating? If so how it could have burned you?

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This is the kind of guy who gets everything, until he doesn't get his own way then the world sucks. OP is getting money to go to uni in a savings account ready for his education so he doesn't struggle yet is crying over buying a fucking phone. People like OP is the reason I rent my own flat for university instead of living in student halls with complete and utter retards who cannot function without mommy, daddy and a bottle of vodka every weekend instead of food, water and clothing.

Well you think i complain? what about the spoilt brats in my school who get free iPhone 6S and crap, and complain when they lose or break it and get a new one for free 

And here i am having to pay for my own tech 

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Is it overheating? If so how it could have burned you?

Reached 81 degrees internally, and it made my hand red and dry. Got a few blisters as well 

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This is the kind of guy who gets everything, until he doesn't get his own way then the world sucks. OP is getting money to go to uni in a savings account ready for his education so he doesn't struggle yet is crying over buying a fucking phone. People like OP is the reason I rent my own flat for university instead of living in student halls with complete and utter retards who cannot function without mommy, daddy and a bottle of vodka every weekend instead of food, water and clothing.

 

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Well you think i complain? what about the spoilt brats in my school who get free iPhone 6S and crap, and complain when they lose or break it and get a new one for free 

And here i am having to pay for my own tech 

whats wrong with paying for your tech, its the real world you don't get everything from your parents forever, unless you live with them for your whole life

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Reached 81 degrees internally, and it made my hand red and dry. Got a few blisters as well 

You were gaming or something? Or it just decided to overheat out of blue?

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Well you think i complain? what about the spoilt brats in my school who get free iPhone 6S and crap, and complain when they lose or break it and get a new one for free 

And here i am having to pay for my own tech 

 

Then get over it already and buy a new phone instead of crying over it.

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Well you think i complain? what about the spoilt brats in my school who get free iPhone 6S and crap, and complain when they lose or break it and get a new one for free 

And here i am having to pay for my own tech 

 

Oh dear, that's horrible! Hold up, let me look at the things on my desk that my parents bought for me. Hmm, oh wait, nothing. 

What do they know of England, who only England know?

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You were gaming or something? Or it just decided to overheat out of blue?

Out of the blue, was using Google chrome to do homework 

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