Best place to buy a lumia 930 if you want a recent build/batch handset?

[paddylaz]

Could be a stupid question, but anyone know the best way of ensuring/maximizing the chance that a lumia 930 that is bought on the internet is going to be one that is from a recent batch? I.e. newly built? Figured it might be sensible given the issues/QC problems some people have been having.

Should I wait for stock on the Microsoft Store?

 

[xandros9]

I don't know if we can really answer that question.

How about you buy from a shop with a good return policy? That's probably best in this case.

 

[Ste Wilkins1]

My 930 was built in Feb of this year, it still has problems ie with the headphone jack that completely failed after a week, rather than return it I've ordered a new headphone jack off the net and going to repair it myself because i don't want to risk sending it to France for repair as that where i bought it from, and having to wait weeks for it to be returned or being lost in transit, when i can do this repair myself within 20 mins.

Other than the headphone jack on mine rest of it pretty solid ie screen is perfect & no overheating ect, but the headphone jack is one of the main problems on the 930 & other Lumia's for that matter regardless as to when it was built.

 

[chris_gt]

Got mine issue free from user "never msrp" on ebay, hardware revision is 2.0.0.3 and manufacture date is Feb 2015.

No noticeable issues so far but I don't think it's a batch issue either, just poor quality contra

As Xandros09 said, check for a good return policy and be careful since I have seen some selling them as "no warranty" items (on amazon for instance).