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From: lute@abnjh.UUCP (J. Collymore)
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Subject: Re: Extended Warranty Coverage on VCRs: Worth It?
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 16:30:16 EDT
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I was also given the sales pitch about an extended warranty for my VCR (a GE
4-head that I bought in January).  I turned it down.  The primary scare tactic
they used on me was head cleaning costs.  I posted queries to net.video and
the concensus was that you don't have to clean the heads every 40 hours of
play (as the salesman probably told you).  You have them cleaned when you
have a NEED to have them cleaned (i.e. when there is NOTICEABLE degradation in
picture quality).  Therefore, I felt why should I get the extended warranty
(knock on wood)?

Since there IS a 90-day warranty, I did take one precaution against early
parts failure, I used it A LOT for the first 60 days.  If anything was going
to go wrong, I wanted it to happen during the warranty period, and I wanted
to know what the VCR's weaknesses might be.  So far everything seems fine.
(Knock on wood, again.)


					Jim Collymore