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Warranties are really only as good as the place honoring them. Manufacturer warranties are basically a gigantic hassle with an endless amount of hoops to jump through, and you're out your product the entire time they are trying to prove that the reason it broke is your fault/not honor the warranty. One of my good friends sells high end appliances for a living and he said he barely makes anything on a warranty sale as compared to the sale of $100K worth of kitchen/home appliances, but he ALWAYS sells the warranty simply because it is such an insane hassle to get a manufacturer out to see your broken fridge/dishwasher/towel heating rack etc, and what are you going to do while your major appliance is broken? If it's a major purchase and the company is reputable, buy the drat warranty.
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Old Man Pants posted:Warranties are really only as good as the place honoring them. Manufacturer warranties are basically a gigantic hassle with an endless amount of hoops to jump through, and you're out your product the entire time they are trying to prove that the reason it broke is your fault/not honor the warranty. I guess this varies by your market and/or manufacturer. I bought a Samsung washing machine and within the first year had a malfunction. I tried reporting it to the reseller, who told me to call Samsung directly. Samsun had some sort of machine-learning voice control robot that interrogated me about the symptoms and said they'd be in touch. The next day, I got an email saying the robot had ordered a spare part and a tech will be along as soon as they get the part. Which turned out to be the week after. He talked to me to confirm the diagnosis, then fixed the problem and was on his way in 30 minutes. No charge, no extra warranty purchased.
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Sep 16, 2020 11:13
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Captain Monkey posted:Gravel protection when renting a car in Iceland. With the insane wine and rural roads, if you're going to be driving outside the Reykjavik area, it's well worth it. That's a good idea. We didn't get it as we were sticking to the main roads but it would have made sense to have. Also, if you need an automatic transmission be sure to reserve in advance as they aren't the standard there.
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Sep 17, 2020 18:36
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I just want to clarify that I meant wind, not wine. I was not drunk driving in Iceland.
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Sep 18, 2020 03:03
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Like others had said the tire hazard warranty thing. But 20 years I was into car audio. The warranty on subwoofer is great. If you blow it, you just bring it in and they hand you a new one
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Sep 19, 2020 12:19
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I bought the gold warranty on the last car I bought. It has paid for itself 10x over. I've had my transmission replaced, an issue with steering, tires, and my entire AC. All covered. I am never buying a nissan again however.
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Sep 28, 2020 15:55
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I had multiple XBOX 360's and XBONES crap out on me, so I've been very happy opting for the replacement warranties on those and don't think I'd buy a console without one at this point. Also, the homeowner warranty. My realtor is a big fan of them and made sure it was included when we bought the house. Didn't need it at all that first year and I was going back and forth on renewing it. Glad I did because that year the compressor in the AC unit and our dishwasher's main control board both failed and there was a water leak from an upstairs bathroom and it covered replacing/fixing all of that.
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Oct 7, 2020 19:58
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Omg, I finally reached a point in my life where I have decent credit. The Costco Citibank offers 2 year warranties on any product you buy with it. Some fun I’ve had: My wife wanted to lead to build a gaming desktop and ended up jabbing the motherboard with a screwdriver. They asked us to get an estimate for repair and credited the whole amount. We buy drat near everything through that card now. Bird scooter we put money on took a big ol poo poo and demanded we carry it 6 blocks to stop it from charging us, bang chargeback instantly approved. 24 hour fitness and their class action? I didn’t have to do ANYTHING with that garbage, I called em and let em know “I’m not a lawyer and am having a hard time with this paperwork they expect me to do to get my money back”. Boom - every payment they’ve charged me in 2020. Our OLED tv has 5 years of warranty because of that card and Costco. It a direction I appreciate things going in... if we can’t have the kinds of basic protection afforded by government that Europeans take for granted. It seems like capitalism has decided consumer protection is worth it, caveat emptor is not a feasible way to get consumers to keep shopping. tl;dr Having a warranty on stuff like a car wash breaking down mid spray is pretty nice.
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Oct 8, 2020 19:19
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Rather than making a new thread, this seems like the place to ask this: Have you ever "registered your product" like so many boxes, manuals and websites ask us to? What benefits are there for us or for them? I think I only heard of people doing this to complete some kind of rebate or gift card gimmick promotion, nothing else.
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Oct 18, 2020 06:24
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I know some software publishers used to use that information, back in the 80's and 90's, to send out promotions for new releases. I don't think it had any benefit to the consumer except if you wanted to keep in the loop of you favorite game publisher or so.
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Oct 18, 2020 12:11
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When I bought my Benelli there was a sheet that suggested registering online. I bought that brand because they have one of the best warranties in the business, so I did it. I don't know what benefits there are to it, I just didn't want any possible hassles if I had to use it 
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Oct 18, 2020 13:02
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I've had good luck with warranties because I'm a disaster. New laptop gets destroyed by a toddler? Jump through some hoops and: bam! New computer. Sleeping rough on an air mattress, so it falls apart after three days? Just make it a point to go to Sears every three days for a replacement for a YEAR. Plenty of other ones but those two really stand out.
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Oct 20, 2020 17:15
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Roumba posted:Rather than making a new thread, this seems like the place to ask this: Have you ever "registered your product" like so many boxes, manuals and websites ask us to? What benefits are there for us or for them? I registered a dishwasher once for whatever reason. You get put on their "crazed dishwasher enthusiast" mailing list. Edit: Besides marketing, they may be obliged to try to get customers contact info in case there's a recall. Pekinduck fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Oct 21, 2020 |
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Oct 21, 2020 02:23
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Some products have fine-print in their good warranties where you have to register within a certain period of time after purchase to get the good coverage, otherwise you default to a crappier warranty period.
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Oct 21, 2020 19:05
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Pekinduck posted:I registered a dishwasher once for whatever reason. You get put on their "crazed dishwasher enthusiast" mailing list. Someone once told me about the holy grail of dishwashing: two dishwashers in one kitchen, so you never have to empty the dishwasher, you just take the clean dishes out of one and put the dirty dishes into the other, then run it and go the opposite way. The fact that this is now an ambition of mine makes me a dishwasher enthusiast, I guess.
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Oct 23, 2020 04:36
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I've actually seen that in practice in a workplace. It worked so-so because some idiots couldn't tell which one was "clean" and started dirty cups in it...
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Oct 23, 2020 08:29
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:I've actually seen that in practice in a workplace. It worked so-so because some idiots couldn't tell which one was "clean" and started dirty cups in it... I think I'd get a magnet or something to designate the clean one vs. the dirty one in that situation, and possibly even in a home. I mean, I still have that problem because occasionally I can't remember if I've run the dishwasher and just not emptied it, or if it's full of dirty dishes, so... whatever.
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Oct 23, 2020 22:37
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PT6A posted:I think I'd get a magnet or something to designate the clean one vs. the dirty one in that situation, and possibly even in a home. Oh, they had a very clear magnetic laminated sign that you were supposed to move from one machine to the other when it finished running. Somehow didn't help for these monkeys.
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Oct 24, 2020 21:31
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I haven't seen this mentioned but absolutely buy a warranty for any kind of robot you get. Litter robots are great and nothing compares to them, but for the love of god get a warranty. They need some kind of repair once a year. We also have a neato and robot vacuums should have the longest warranty you can buy.
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Oct 28, 2020 06:28
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redreader posted:I haven't seen this mentioned but absolutely buy a warranty for any kind of robot you get. Litter robots are great and nothing compares to them, but for the love of god get a warranty. They need some kind of repair once a year. We also have a neato and robot vacuums should have the longest warranty you can buy. I'm going on year 3 of my Eufy Robovac.. the only non-consumable I've had to replace is the battery, after 3 years it wasn't holding as long of a charge...
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Oct 29, 2020 23:56
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Bought a new cell phone a few years ago. They had a warranty replacement plan that you paid for monthly. They would replace the phone if damaged, you only pay shipping (in addition to the monthly fee), yadda yadda yadda. Paid for one month. Phone arrived before the case did. Dropped the phone and shattered the screen. Had a replacement within 2 days, and the case arrived at the same time. Cancelled the monthly warranty plan thing the next month.
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Oct 30, 2020 14:58
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Earlier this year I bought a used car and they offered gap insurance. I kind of took it in a whim, I'm a very conservative driver and have never even been in a fender bender. Well 3 weeks after I got the car I slid on rain when someone cut me off and hit a phone pole and completely totaled the car. Never been more thankful that I randomly was offered and accepted gap insurance.
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Nov 7, 2020 18:48
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When I bought my second camcorder in the late 90s early 2000s I got like a 7 year warranty with Best Buy because I knew I'd break that poo poo. So 5 or so years down the road my camera finally fell apart do to neglect and abuse and when I took it in they were like "Well this model is out of date so they don't make it anymore, I guess we'll just have to give you the current equivalent". Basically because I paid 20 bucks years earlier I got a higher quality brand new Camcorder with more/better features.
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Mar 4, 2021 23:12
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Sort of? I keep my Chase Sapphire Reserve in part for the primary rental car insurance (well, in the pre-COVID days, anyway), and it's paid off. I rented a car from Sixt a couple years back, and they claimed it was returned with major tire damage. I have no idea how that could have been, unless it happened as I was driving it back to return it, but my credit card's insurance people took care of it for me. I think they even got Sixt to drop the claim, though I don't really remember. I just know I didn't have to pay anything extra.Ancillary Character posted:Some products have fine-print in their good warranties where you have to register within a certain period of time after purchase to get the good coverage, otherwise you default to a crappier warranty period. This was the case with my Wii. Registering extended your warranty from twelve months to fifteen months. Coincidentally, I registered mine, and it actually did die within that extra period, so I just drove it over to the repair shop that they had at their HQ at the time (the repair shop's since closed, unfortunately), and they transferred my data to a new one on the spot. Took about 15-20 minutes altogether, and it was all covered because I had the extra few months from registering my console.
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Mar 20, 2021 09:28
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the SSD in my new laptop shat itself and died only 3 months after i got it, warranty covered it i somehow have worse luck with drives than my dad who used to literally maintain storage servers for a living
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Mar 26, 2021 05:17
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I rented a U-Haul trailer for a 1000 mile 2-day trip. The insurance was ~$20 or less, so I took it. The second morning of the trip I hit black ice on the freeway and slid off the road sideways at 55 mph. My truck rolled twice, the trailer rolled 1.5 times. Both were totaled. Trailer was missing a wheel, completely bent out of shape, etc. 100% covered.
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Blue On Blue posted:Tire and Rim protection package when you buy a new car. I absolutely regret not getting the wheels and rim protection package when we bought our used car. I'm pretty sure with my wife's driving, I could have made money on this package.
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