With you on that. I have expensive Compaq servers aboard one of my
ships. The things kept shutting down because one of 3 fans would flame
out. Compaq kept saying that they had a sub-24 hour guaranteed response
time and kept spares in stock. I asked the rep how he proposed to get
said spare to a ship off the Antarctic coast. That shut him up.

I want gear that doesn't *need* an extended warranty. Speaking of
which, my Apple laptop glitched last night for the first time. Seeing
as it's end of financial year time here and I have money left in the
budget, I might go buy one of the new Intel based ones.

PDW

In article , Bob Crantz
wrote:

As a rule I don't buy service contracts I'd rather buy things that don't
break. I did buy one for a notebook computer after weighing risk vs return
and based on previous notebook computer experiences.








"Frank" wrote in message
oups.com...
Dave wrote:
Perhaps the advice is specific to Sony. For most products a service
contract
is just plain stupid. I'll bet I've saved at least double the costs of all
repairs by never buying a service contract. Most electronic items, at
least,
fail, if at all, during the warranty period.

and Mys Terry said:
Service contracts for almost anything are a sucker bet. Not everything
you own is going to break. If you have 20 or 30 items with extended
service contracts, add up how much you spent on all those pieces of
paper.

I agree generally but agree with Dave's comment about specificity. To
harken back to Rob's minivan thread, my brother bought a Chrysler
minivan back in the 80s. He generally avoids buying extended warrantees
or service contracts; but being the anal nitpicker he is, he reviewed
the service history of this vehicle and bought the extended warrantee
in this case. He used the heck out of it, too. FYI, this is how
"particular" he is: When he bough the car, he went over it and gave the
dealer a two-page list of things he wanted corrected before he'd accept
it!

Frank