On (03 Nov 97) Matt Smith wrote to Scott Christensen...
 SC> I *don't* buy the extended warranty.  (I have a 1972 DX-160
 SC> still in daily service...)
 MS> Same experience here, though not RS.  Either electronic gizmos
 MS> go buggy early in the factory warranty, or they don't go bad
 MS> beyond things any idiot could fix like tightening knobs.
 MS> Either way, the extended warranty is a bad buy.  Extended
 MS> warranties are much more profitable for retailers than the item
 MS> they insure in many fields other than electronics.  When buying
 MS> a car, the sales manager demanded I sign, item by item, a
 MS> waiver form acknowledging that they had offered me various
 MS> extended warranties (and didn't buy them)!
My experience has been the same. I never buy an extended warranty,
for two reasons:
1. As you stated above, usually an item will go bad during the
   initial period of the factory warranty.
2. As much as I would hate to do it, almost anything I buy I could
   replace the next day if I had to.
I once bought a color tv from McDuff's for $98. They offered me the
extended warranty for $49, which would cover the TV for two years.
With this wonderful warranty I would be able to bring the TV in
twice to be cleaned, and adjusted. You know that when you took the
TV in for the freeby service they would shoot it with a blow gun to
get the dust out, and visually look at the picture, deciding the
color looked fine and therefore would need no adjustment. When I
turned down the warranty, they acted like I just didn't understand
what I was doing and had the manager come to explain it to me. At
the time, about ten years ago, $98 was quite a buy, otherwise I
would have laughed at them and walk right out of the place. That
same TV is currently in my computer room, and still works fine.
Martin
... At least Pee Wee Herman wasn't *talking* during the movie.
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