Worth buying digital camera 'extended warranty' ? - Page 2

 wrote:

Yea, and every year he buys a $100 camera and takes 100 pictures. He
ain't going to tell us the truth about what it cost himself to
complete that vacation in the van either.

 
  Pfft!  Yeah, right!  We have toddlers, and we take at LEAST 100 pictures a
month - more if we travel anywhere or visit relatives.  So perhaps 1,500
pictures a year.  We save at least $150 a year in photo developing costs
this way, not to mention we get to look at the pictures right away.

  Even if it lasts just a year, I still feel like we've gotten our money out
of it.  Of course, I wouldn't mind if it lasted 3 years instead.

 
Circuit

passing on

The Circuit City protection plan looks out for Circuit City.
You want the OhioGuy protection plan.

Unless you like to play "where's waldo",  looking for all the loopholes
that are there in the protection contract, telling you why they won't pay off,
you probably won't know what you've got until it's too late.

Personally I'd rather hold on to the 20 bucks. It's a sure thing. The
extended warranty is a craps shoot.

Don

 OhioGuy wrote:

As Nancy Reagan used to say "Just don't do it!!!" 8-)

All kidding aside I have to really question what the heck you are doing
to those digital cameras that you kill them off every year on average.
Either you have the worst possible luck choosing the worst possible
camera every time, or you are doing something with how you use/handle
them that brings them to a premature death.

I have three of them in a "paid" (not retail price) price range of 80
dollars, 120.00 dollars and 500 dollars. None of them have died. And the
$500.00 one - a five year old Fuji MX2900Z 2.3 megapixel - is still used
*heavily* and still works fine.

That all being said, you are not the person to by an extended warranty.
Because the first rule of voiding an extended warranty is saying to the
customer "you dropped it" and that's where your "protection" ends. With
cameras they will only fix *known* manufacturer defects. And
until/unless/after the manufacturer gets a few thousand calls from
consumers screaming bloody hell about the exact same problem you won't
see any camera repair under extended warranty.

Lap top extended warranties? The favorite way Lenovo voids extended
warranty coverage of late is to claim "water damage" to a lap top. Not a
half gallon of water in the lap top. The dried residue of what might
have been moisture covering less than a quarter centimeter of a board in
the lap top. That may have been deposited there and dried while the lap
top was being assembled... And usually not visible to the naked eye.

Rick

 Hi
Personally I think the protection plan is a waste of time especially
with electronics,  If there is a problem its usually at the beginning
of the items life.  Companies know this and thats why they offer these
plans,  its easy money for them and very profitable,  its all in the
stats

Plus usually this cover is not for accidental damage which is really
what is most likely to cause repairs.

Sales Person "Oh sorry we don't cover accidental damage or wear and
tear it clearly stated in the policy" etc

I would spend the money on buying a bigger memory card.

Regards

Alex
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