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There are those that walk around and use smartphones that have cracked screens.  While Corning’s (GLW) Gorilla Glass™ and Asahi’s (5201.JP) Dragontrail™ and their predecessors have gone a long way to keep smartphone screens intact, along with the hundreds of protective cases available for almost any smartphone brand, there are times when phones fall on bathroom floors or concrete train platforms with the result a cracked screen.  Getting a screen fixed if you do not have a repair plan attached to your phone can be an expensive and time consuming task that leaves you without a phone for some indeterminate period.
For a short time, if you happen to have a particular Samsung (005930.KS) smartphone, you can get your phone’s screen repaired for the bargain basement price of only $50, and this is a bargain for anyone who needs a screen repair when compared to the cost of replacing a damaged screen at other times.  Looking at Samsung’s entire line of smartphones, the top of the line Galaxy Z Fold 3 ($1,799), the cost of an inner screen replacement for that phone is $479, which is 26.6% of the initial price of the phone and for a screen replacement for any of the three fold models (Fold, Z Fold 2, Z Fold 3), the average cost to repair the inner screen is 28.1$ of the initial cost of the phone and the cost for the lower priced Galaxy Flip line runs to 35.6% of the initial price of the phone..
Of course, foldable screens are going to be more expensive than most, so we take it a bit further and calculate the cost of replacing the rest of the Samsung Galaxy line  back a few years to see the cost for other more ‘normal’ display replacements.  The average cost to replace a screen on a Galaxy S series (Flagship) smartphone runs between 19.9% and 30.4%, while the cost for the now defunct Note line ranged between 20.7% and 25.7% of the initial cost, but what turns out to be the most expensive replacements are those for Samsung’s mid-to-low tier line, the A series, where the cost of replacing screens for these budget phones ran from 25.9% to 61.2% of the initial price.
There are some rules during the promotion however:

• You must be a resident of the US (50 sates & DC)
• You must mail-in your phone (No walk-ins)
• Does not apply to frame or back glass
• No Samsung partners are participating (including Best Buy (BBY))
• You have to open a Samsung account
• The promotion runs from 6/13 to 6/27
• Eligible phones –
  • Any Galaxy S phone from the S9 and new series except the S21 FE & S20 FE
  • Any Galaxy Note 9 or newer phone
  • Any Galaxy A phone (No ‘J’ series phones)

We have not seem many of these promotions so if you have a cracked screen on any of the above Samsung smartphones you should take advantage of the offer.  Perhaps Samsung is trying to reduce replacement screen inventory, but whatever the reason such offers should be taken when they are present and this one will only last another two weeks.  Unfortunately you will be without your phone for some period of time (no timeframe given) but burner phones at Walmart (WMT) are as low as $20.00 and you can always justify a back-up phone for those times when yours slips under the couch cushions for a few days.