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  • #31
    With rare exceptions I will never buy extended warranties.

    1. I kept screaming NO when I bought by honda passport and they kept lowering it and finally offered me 7 years 75,000 miles for just under $700. That one I took. But not at the original 2300 offer. It really makes you wonder if they can still make money at 700, who the hell would pay 2300.

    2. Whenever I bought a projection TV and the warrenty wasn't expensive since the guns will usually fail at least once during the warranty period.

    Other than those two examples, I've never bought one. They're usually not worth it. (unless it's incredibly cheap)

    I once went into radio shack to buy a replacement universal remote for 9.99
    The clown asked me if i wanted to buy a extended war. for 3.99. I couldn't stop laughing. It it breaks, I'm throwing it away.

    It is my belief (along with what Snoopy said) that most issues will happen in the first 30-60 day and will already be covered. So no extended plan is necessary.
    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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    • #32
      I once went into radio shack to buy a replacement universal remote for 9.99
      The clown asked me if i wanted to buy a extended war. for 3.99. I couldn't stop laughing. It it breaks, I'm throwing it away
      Back when I was a cashier - this is several years ago - on more than one occasion I sold a warranty as expensive or more expensive than the product the warranty covered. Ha-ha!
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      • #33
        Yeah, DLP RP TV's are one good example of where there is a high (30%?) failure rate within the normal extended warranty time of a significant part (the lamps)... whereas Plasma/LCD it's a bad idea because those have a much lower (~5-7%) failure rate in that time (unless you get like a 5-6 year warranty, but with technology advancing I suspect you can get a whole new identical TV in 5 years for the price of the warranty if it's 20-30%, so ...)
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