Now i KNOW everyone here (becuase you own a puter) has bought an electronics device of some sort, and been offered an extended warranty. Sometimes they make sense, most times they dont.
Well, here is one story. I left my home in late July for a full 4 week holiday to the best part of the world, (Calgary and into the Windermere area) and when i got home, at some point things had gone terribly wrong. We had clearly had a lightning strike/power surge of somekind, and it nailed a bunch of stuff.
Specifically it had smoked the computer, on which i so eloquently illustrate my opinions on CP (J/K guys
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Anyhow, I had purchased that computer in Oct of 02, and it was a 3 year extended deal. So i came in under the gun by 2 months. Good lord am i happy i did.
Now, i was NOT real happy when Best Buy explained they needed to send it away for repair/estimate, but it was great news when they called me after 2 1/2 weeks to say that my system was unrepairable and I would get full replacement. I was asked to come to the store and settle up, which I did about 3 weeks ago.
Now going in there...I thought that I would be given a couple hundred bucks towards the new toy.....well i was wrong. The way these warranties work is that they have to at least replenish what you had (if it was a 46" TV, then you get one as big or bigger). So they informed me that i had $499 to work with and anything above that I had to cover.
I was astounded to find out that what i had (it worked for what i needed) was no longer even a thought.
I went from a 233 Intel Celeron and 128 MB RAM, 40 GB HD that had a DVD player and a CDRW, to a 340 Intel Celeron, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD with a DVD/CD RW and all sorts of newfangled connections.......all for 20 bucks on top of the 499 i was alloted.
On top of all that, there is NO question that both my video and audio cards are 100 times better than the last ones.
Great deal and something to consider when buying any sort of electronics in the future.