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Laptop/Notebook Owners: Did you buy an extended warranty?

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i didn't get it for my sager. think about it, you're BETTING it will break. why would you buy something you're so sure will break?

if something goes wrong, i can pay for a lot of repairs with the cost of those warrenties. after all, that's why they offer them. in the long run they make money. statistically it's a bad move on the buyers part or else the companies wouldn't offer them in the first place.
 
I don't own a laptop, but people always ask me for recommendations. I always tell them to have sufficient warranty (I let them determine how much they believe is sufficient). With a desktop, I would tell them not to bother since all the parts are easily replaced and it'll just sit there for its entire lifetime. With a laptop, lots of parts are proprietary, you travel around with it and even the non-proprietary stuff is expensive.
 
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
i didn't get it for my sager. think about it, you're BETTING it will break. why would you buy something you're so sure will break?

if something goes wrong, i can pay for a lot of repairs with the cost of those warrenties. after all, that's why they offer them. in the long run they make money. statistically it's a bad move on the buyers part or else the companies wouldn't offer them in the first place.
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you're absolutely right, but some people just feel the need to buy warranties. i take my notebook everywhere i go. (i'm a student). i take it to class, to the library, to lunch, to the coffee shop, to work, to the bathroom, to my g/f's place - when i say everywhere, i mean everywhere i've had tons of cups of coffee, milk, ketchup, etc. fall on my textbooks, and it's only a matter of time till something like that happens to my notebook. for that, i purchased the accidental damage warranty. it was $300 total for the exteneded/accidental coverage, and considering my notebook cost $2300 (including the warranty), i felt that the warranty was worth the cost in the event anything happened to my notebook.


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Originally posted by: theNEOone
Originally posted by: CrazyDe1
No, warranties are worthless. How much is a warranty? 40 bucks? For one, if anything breaks after the 1 year manufacturer's warranty I know what I'm doing enough to fix it for cheaper than the warranty. Second of all, for the price of Dell's warranties I might as well just buy a computer now, use it for a few years, and buy another one when it breaks and end up only spending about 300 bucks more.

Think about it, I can buy my laptop that I bought a year and a half ago for 1200 off ebay that works for 700 bucks. Dell's 3 year warranty was like 300 bucks. So, for a few hundred more bucks I could just get a brand new laptop.

Oh yeah, my computer has basically been on 24/7 for a year and a half with 0 problems except for when I got pissed I lost a game and threw it on the floor and had to replace the keyboard cause a key broke off. I turned off sleep mode, I turned off power saving mode and I hardly ever restart because I hate waiting for it to come out of sleep mode or restart.
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uhh, you threw your notebook on the floor because you got pissed at a game? good move.
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Actually that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's numerous nintendo and xbox controllers broken from college, basketballs thrown against walls in gyms. One time we had a tecmo bowl tournament and I hadn't played in 2 years. Well, to make a long story short I went from going 54-2 in all my tecmo bowl games to 1-4 that day in the tournament. No one would play me again so I ended up buying everyone lunch so that I could rematch all of them.

I guess I just don't take losing so well...

 
certain credit cards have an extra year of warranty..

so I did not buy extended warranty off DELL, instead I got it from my CC company for free! 😀 (and laptops are pretty much worthless after 2 years)
 
I got the 3 Year Extended Warranty w/ Mail In Service & Complete Customer Care package with my 5150 Notebook.
 
I got the "Accidental Damage" warranty upgrade with my HP ZT3000. Unfortunately, neither my Discover Platinum nor USAA Mastercard have the extended warranty coverage option. I'll be looking into upgrading my MC when it expires in March.

Edit: On the phone with USAA right now.
 
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