I do not like extended waranties, Sam I Am.

[Sliceanddice]

Has the clerk ever read Consumer Reports? They consider extended warranties to be mostly sucker's games, just like insurance at the blackjack table.

most computer peopl ei talk to say it is a suckers bet but if its important get it i bought a cheapass laptop payed an extra 100 bucks for a 3 year warentee and i ended up using it multiple times when my hard drive died, 3 times and my laptop burst into flames.
100 bucks saved me 500

[Amwhere]

The last time I was at Gamestop I was offered "Used Game Protection" ($1) on two used PS2 games I got... for $4 and $8. For disc based games, warranties are a rip-off anyway - take care of them and they'll last years.

(One of those two games were Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter - going for $46 on Amazon right now. )

[PepperElf]

i'm reminded of a car mom once bought.

The company policy was to push some warranty on the tires, but... The salesman said it was his last day on the job so... he didn't care about pushing them. He simply told Mom... "You have Michelin tires - they're already covered for X amount of <years> by Michelin. You don't need this warranty."

[bunnyboy]

The only time I've ever seen an extended warranty go good is with Fry's Electronics, since 90% of the stuff they sell is electronics....it decides it'll break 91 days after you buy it.

On a side note, I stopped going to EB Games/top routinely about January of last year... it was for a variety of reasons, and the straw that broke the canel's back was, buying wow game time card thing, and getting asked if I wanted to pre-order Lich King... 3 times... all answers were no and my thinking was

this is Blizzard who tried SC: Ghost (never came) and SC2 (came WAY later than was expected) why do I wanna bank on an expansion pack for a game I might not even play a year from now (I was right there...need money to play FFXI) or might be delayed for 2 years...by which tim I'll probably have forgotten about it.

*sighs* and this is why you don't let marketing majors decide any business practice aside from avertising.

[Imogene]

I actually stopped going to Media Play because of something like this.

I'm not saying that that was the reason the place went under, but it couldn't have helped.

Having worked the better part of my life under the Media Play umbrella, just before we shut down, we were owned by Best Buy, and they were running us as though we were independent stores from the mall. They falsified earnings statements so their stockholders would be more inclined to sell us when they did. And got sued, as we immediately started turning a profit once we were gone from their regime. They kept inundating us with crap... more toys, more board games, more TCGs! More shit that'd hang on the walls for a year, eventually get marked down to under a dollar, and then get transferred to another store to sit around more.

Personally, I only tossed the rewards card to people who were buying more than $50 worth of merchandise. Though I did always ask for the Entertainment Weekly offer, and I made sure everything was understood perfectly before I actually signed customers up for it.