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From: holzwort@ittral.UUCP (Paul Holzworth)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.video
Subject: Re: Extended Warranty Coverage on VCRs: Worth It?
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 17:57:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  2 17:57:52 1984
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I have always enjoyed doing the following when someon tries to sell me
an extended warranty.   Ask the salesperson why you should buy something
from him if it is obviously such a piece of junk that you need an
extended warranty.  They usually come back with the response that if it
should break then you won't have to shell out big bucks.  You can then
ask them if they are willing out of the goodness of their hearts to lose
money on the service contract since the odds are obviously very high that
they are going to have to pay out a lot of money to get it fixed for you.

They usually give up.

Reliability studies indicate that there are two major failure periods in
the life of a product.  There is a time right after a unit is produced that
it dies due to defects in manufacturing or materials.  (This is the 
thing that 90 day warranties take care of.  Then there is a time at which
the product just plain wears out.  In between these times the incidence
of failures is much, much lower.  So if you are buying a product from
a reputable manufacturer it almost never pays to buy an extended
warranty.  (If it did,  why would they be so interested in selling you one.)