Extended Warranty from Best Buy or Circuit City = RIP-OFF?

[freemanteo]

Here is the BB website link to the NOT detailed Policy: HERE



On my hardcopy under the NO LEMON POLICY;

"it says if item cannot be repaired or repaired more than 3 times, determined by them, to replace product with same price value."

The Plan is in my car, i can only remember so much. How i LOVE fineprints! :|


I am not angry that i did not read the terms & conditions, but is that they LIE to us just to make it sound SOOOOO good to buy the plan!

 

[Triumph]

you still haven't made it clear why you have to pay any difference. i don't see anything in that link.

 

[zzzz]

best way is to go to the same BB tomorrow, and tell this to everyone who wants to buy something from them.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

If you read the fine print of any "warranty", you'll find they cover absolutely nothing.

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
If you read the fine print of any "warranty", you'll find they cover absolutely nothing.

Sad but True. As they say, there is a sucker born every second.

 

[RU482]

Extended Warranty from Best Buy or Circuit City = RIP-OFF?

Well DUH

 

[freemanteo]

Originally posted by: Triumph
you still haven't made it clear why you have to pay any difference. i don't see anything in that link.

Look a few posts up, i said because new stuffs are coming out so often, obviously the old stuffs are obsolete and they did not have the EXACT same model that i have, so i got a comparable product and was told to pay the diff, only if i can find the EXACT same model i have then i DONOT need to pay the price diff.

 

[flot]

Well, as long as they are refunding you 100% of your "original" price, it doesn't seem unreasonable that you'd be asked to pay the difference for whatever else they are selling now. After all - USUALLY things go DOWN in price over time. IE you paid $200 for speakers a year ago of x quality, but now you can get 20% better ones for the same amount of money.

But in general, those plans are only worth it if you are "pretty sure" you'll be cashing in on it. For instance, I bought the plan from circuit city for some speakers for my old Jeep, which sat outside with the top off a lot. Ironically, the speakers were fine when I took them out and sold the jeep. (I was surprised, I was convinced the speakers would have failed and I'd get some new ones) A year later, after they had been sitting on a shelf in my closet, I go to hook them up - and the voice coils had RUSTED inside. Took them back to CC and now have a $150 store credit to use on whatever I want - can't complain about that!

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Actually I heard that CC was pretty good with the warrenty compared to other places. I got it on our widescreen TV, especially since the guy took us over and showed us the horrible burn-in on a sony model (I had any new sony products anyways) "We would have to replace that" he says.

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: fisher
i bought an xbox controller tonight and they tried to sell me a 5 dollar replacement thing in case i threw my controller down in anger and broke it. errrrr. no thanks.

"You see sir, the fact that I'm not taking this controller out and strangling you with the cord for trying to sell me a bullshit warranty should be proof enough that I am in control of my anger enough that I won't break this controller"

 

[Vortex22]

Originally posted by: fisher
i bought an xbox controller tonight and they tried to sell me a 5 dollar replacement thing in case i threw my controller down in anger and broke it. errrrr. no thanks.

They tried to pull the same thing on me yesterday when I was picking up a GC and PS2 controller.