Product Warranties at Best Buy and/or Circuit City.? I'm about to purchase a computer and am trying
I'm about to purchase a computer and am trying to opt between Best Buy and Circuit City. I found the same model HP desktop at both places in $40 for the complete package.
So, it comes down to Norton vs. MicroTrend (or something close to that) and the service plans that both stores offer.
Does anyone enjoy any experience, comments, advice....on the topic? I'm really torn.
Thanks within advance.
Answers:
Manufacturers propose warranties on their products. Stores get rid of you service plans. Service plans are an insurance policy. Just like motor insurance or life insurance. A company is betting that you won't draw from into an accident or die, but charges you for that bet. On the happening that you do, they pay out. Guess what? Those companies are pretty obedient bettors as they're still in business. It's with the sole purpose a good deal for you because it could be a catastrophic cost for you to wreck your vehicle, or to your family if you see the bucket.
But if your computer dies, it's not going to cost you thousands of dollars to replace it, let alone a short time ago fix it. So on the rare break that it craps out, the company is betting a lot of YOUR money on the slim possibility that they might hold to pay out rather bit.
Did you know that if you buy that computer with a credit card, you really probably have double the manufacturer warranty through the credit card. Check with your credit card company. Why discharge extra for what you may already have?
I couldn't speak for Circuit City, but I'm categorically not impressed with the scam artists at Best Buy. They very soon CHARGE you over $100 to take stale all the Free Trial crap software, which bogs down your computer right at the birth, that the manufacturer put on the computer contained by the first place. How about that? They trademark a profit on that crap on the computer in the first place, since vendor pay to put it on at hand, and then they manufacture MORE money by taking it back rotten.
And now Best Buy is charging race $80 to 'supertune' their new HDTV's to gain 'maximum performance' out of it. They claim to be able to access SECRET software inside the TV that mere mortals don't know in the region of to squeeze out extra performance that the factory owner built in, but doesn't want you to savour.
Forget the Nigerian Scams, Best Buy has plenty of their own going on. And you want to reward them MORE for a service plan you'll likely never inevitability? best but have the better services plans. I have both and circuit city really sucks.