I never buy extended warranties. I've always felt they were a ripoff. Well, my FIL bought one for his $1200 TV a few years ago. This year the damn TV broke just before the Superbowl! They didn't get it fixed before the bowl but man, a guy came over and installed a new tube and new motherboard and now the thing's sharper than ever. Imagine that... anyone ever make good on an extended warranty?

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

I've bought extended warranties for all my MBs and it has returned at least 10x the value of the warranty.

For notebook computers I always recommend the extended accidental damage warranty along with the purchase. I've done this probably ~30 times over the years and almost all of those have resulted in replacement computers down the line.

Electronics represent the state of the science of value engineering. With normal use, the manufacturer’s goal is to get the product to last to the end of the standard warranty, plus a little more. After that they want it to fail.

OTOH, if something gets light duty, an extended warranty is often of no value.

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

Butterfingers!

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1992 300D 2.5T
1980 Euro 300D (sadly, sold)
1998 Jetta TDI, 132K "Rudy"
1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)

Not unlike the manufacturers who are butter-sluts.

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

High-end telephones... work related. I *always* get a plan with them. My phone breaks once a year, and I get a new phones. Haven't paid for a phone in 15 years.

I've never bought anything that offered a waranty but when my mom got her new E-Machines computer she bought one. Its a good thing she did because the mother board went out on it a month after the free waranty expired. They replaced that then six months later it fried another mother board!! Lucky twice because it was still under waranty. This time they just gave her a whole new computer. The down side was it took about a month each time to resolve the probelm. After seeing all she went through I will never buy an E-Machine, and if for some reason I do then I'm definately getting a waranty.

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Seth

1984 300D 225K
1985 300D Donor body
1985 300D Turbo 165K. Totaled. Donor Engine. It runs!!!
1980 300SD 311K My New Baby.
1979 BMW 633csi 62K+++? Dead odo