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<font size=3>At 12:34 PM 8/31/2014, Brian Cluff wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I was going to write a long
reply to this message, but Joseph wrote almost exactly what I was going
to say.<br><br>
If you treat your laptop well and carry it in a padded bag and don't run
it in harsh environments, you'll almost certainly not need it.<br>
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snip, snip<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>, and the money
I've saved from not paying for the extended warranty would more than pay
for a couple of laptops.<br><br>
Brian Cluff<br><br>
On 08/31/2014 11:27 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I've never purchased an extended
warranty for a computer.<br>
It's a form of insurance, so you can guarantee that, statistically, the
cost is greater than the predictive (actuarial) cost of repair or
replacement.<br>
given that gross margins on extended warranties for electronics
(particularly computers) run in the 80%-90% range (which is why sales
pushes them so hard), you can bet that your chances of needing that
coverage are slim indeed.</blockquote></blockquote><br>
I recall many years ago I attended a seminar for servicing/repairing
household appliances......(I was a young Culligan Dealer at the
time)....and an attendee from Calgary, Canada shared with us how he sold
a warranty contract every time he could - then put that money into an
escrow account that was used to "pay" him whenever he provided
warranty service for his customers......as I recall, he told us that
escrow account had just under $1,000,000 in it at the time.....now I do
not know how large his business was, but so what - just add or subtract
the zeros.....<br><br>
lyle tuttle</font></body>
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