Cell phone repair / warranty question

[volleyballer]

Has anyone successfully used the extended warranty feature of their Chase Sapphire Reserve (or similar) credit card for a failed cell phone?

My wife's phone (Pixel 4a5g, about 1.5 yrs old, of course 6 months out of warranty) has failed, most likely a main board issue. It won't connect to any cellular network. Tried swapping sim cards, tried factory reset, no dice. Ubreak/Ifix won't even look at it since it's not under warranty. I couldn't even pay them to fix it if I wanted to.

Google is charging $349 for their mail-in repair service. I could potentially recover this cost through the Chase extended warranty, but then I risk being out the money if I don't jump through the correct hoops for the warranty claim.

I swapped my wife's sim over to my Pixel 4a5g, so she's good for now, while I'm currently using my ooooold Nexus 6 which is barely running LineageOS 18.1. So it seems at least one phone needs to get purchased / acquired in the near future.

I could just be an obedient American consumer and go buy a brand new phone. It's not like I don't have the money. It's more an issue of not being a consumer sucka, not contributing to e-waste, etc.

[yachi]

You know, I always forget these warranties are there.  I've fixed batteries and screens on iPhones and never even checked whether my credit cards extended any of the factory warranties.

[HipGnosis]

I haven't, but I don't buy phones with warranty.

If I did, I'd call the credit card and talk to someone ;
A) find out if it can be done
B) find out exactly HOW is needs to be done for them to 'cover' it

[volleyballer]

Happy ending to the story - the warranty service reimbursed $130 to fix the camera issue on my phone, and reimbursed $390 replacement value on my wife's phone, which was diagnosed by a  repair shop as unfixable. Winning!