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Fri May 26 2000 at 17:32:00
An
option
avilable for
purchase
at
additional
cost
when
aquiring
major
appliances
. Essentially,
insurance
against
equipment
failure
. The
retailer
sells you this
insurance
in the
hope
that you will
forget
you
purchase
d it or
lose
the
documentation
recording
the
warranty
so that they may make
maximum
profit
from its sell.
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untergeek
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Fri May 26 2000 at 18:04:49
Actually the
retailer
probably doesn't much care whether you
lose
the
documentation
or not. The whole
genius
behind the extended
warranty
can be seen by looking at the
bathtub curve
. When you buy that new
TV
at
Best Buy
it'll probably
fail
in the first
month
you have it or it won't fail until ten
years
or more in the
future
. By selling you a warranty that covers years two and three of your
ownership
they're covering the
time
in which the
product
is least likely to fail. Basically whether you remember that you have it or not the extended warranty is almost
pure
profit
for the retailer. The
moral
of this
node
being this, don't buy the extended warranty.
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