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Wow - an A/T thread I can contribute to. So for awhile part of my job was helping clients with things like conference rooms and trade show booths. One of the bits of electronic kit that they have in common are flat screen televisions. Now, because clients generally hate spending money and there is usually a Wal Mart within a reasonable distance from either their office or wherever the conference is held, I pick out a budget-friendly TV for them and I always tell them to get whatever warranty or protection plan is offered. In a lot of cases this looks like ~$300 for the TV and like $35 for the three-year protection plan or something - so like an additional 10% on top of the cost of the TV. I've done this for probably three or four dozen setups and I'd say about half of them end up taking advantage of the protection plan within the first two years. Wal Mart's protection plans are generally easier to deal with than Best Buy, in my experience. Anyway, these are bottom-of-the-line TVs. The margins on these things are thinner than their bezels and the manufacturers cut corners and use garbage components. They know you're a cheapass and that you'll probably upgrade it with your next tax return - they aren't built to last. They are going to break on their own. Trust me. They will get bricked by software updates. Their backlight inverters will poo poo the bed. The inputs will inexplicably stop working. Their speakers will die - usually just one channel. Or you'll sneeze near it and it will short itself out in a puff of blue smoke (yes - I had this happen at a trade show with a 55" Vizio). And when it happens, you'll call up, say "yo shits jacked up" and their call center people will walk you through some troubleshooting for like 5-10 minutes and then send you a gift card (usually digitally) and tell you to recycle the TV. They won't fight you over a POS $300 TV. tl;dr: get a protection plan for cheap televisions if you can get something like a 3 year plan for ~10% of the cost of the TV because the loving thing is going to die on you. FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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