Fwd: Re: Extended warranty's?

[Chris Dyer]

concur. when i sold consumer electronics for a large chain, we were told to 
push those warrantees.  cuz they cost the store nuthin', and we liked them 
b/c our commission on them would sometimes exceed that of the device the 
customer was buying. cars, another story perhaps.

...i wish my '87 5kcstq had a giga-extented warranty. :(


>From: Brad Wilson <bradw at pobox.com>
>To: Audi Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: Re: Extended warranty's?
>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 05:59:26 -0700
>
>Andrew Sitzer wrote:
>
> > I cant believe I am asking this, as I always though extended warranties
> > were for suckers.
>
>My friend kicks himself every time he thinks about not buying the extended
>warranty on his car. He had some decently expensive work go wrong about 4 
>or
>5 days after his eligibility to buy the warranty expired. :(
>
>Extended warranties on electronics are, IMO, a sucker's bet. Consumer
>electronics by and large will fail nearly immediately (<1 year) or last
>nearly forever. I don't put cars in that category, though. I can easily
>imagine $1200 worth of work needing to be done to nearly ANY car over a
>period of 7 years, even if it was all small work. IMO, this seems like
>something you should seriously consider. (Besides, when small things go on 
>a
>non-warrantied car, we'd tend to just let them go and live with there, 
>where
>if I had a warranty, I'd make sure the car stayed in 110% shape).
>
>Best regards,
>Brad
>
>2000 A6 2.7 biturbo quattro   http://www.quality.nu/bradw/audi/
>1 driver, 2 turbos ... no limits
>
>

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