Two things: 1) I'm going to be in London for one day (December 3rd, I think) on an extended layover on the way home. It seems to me I keep seeing UK listers talking about vouchers in some magazine to get MDs from someplace (Richer Sounds?)for absurdly low prices like 49p or something. Could a UK MDer please tell me how I would take advantage of this offer? Which magazine has the ads? Is the magazine available at most newsstands? And is the store easy to find (and close to a tube stop)? Or have they stopped offering this special deal? Thanks in advance. 2) Comments on extended warranties: a couple of people have been asking for advice on extended warranties on their MD products. I don't know about the Sony program, but I do know that most of the 3rd-party extended warranties are a SCAM! The reason the salesman is always eager to sell you one of these warranties is because the salesman gets a large commission on the policy -- typically 50%. The store gets a cut, too. So if your extended warranty costs you $30, for example, the warranty provider is probably receiving only $10 or $12 of that amount. With that $10 or $12 per policy, they are able to pay for warranty claims, print up their fancy brochures, and pay their own salaries, while making a profit. What does that tell you about the value of the policy? Check the fine print, too -- there are often deductibles, shipping and handling expenses, etc, that substantially reduce the value of the policy, and the salesmen are frequently misleading (their commission is at stake!) I've had salesmen tell me "oh, even if you forget the camcorder on the roof of your car and drive off, you can come back, scoop up the pieces, put them in a box, and ship it off to the warranty company", while the text of the policy clearly states that they won't honor a claim if there are any obvious signs of damage. I figure that, by the time my MD (or cell phone, or VCR, or camcorder, or digital camera, or...) breaks or wears out, that something faster, smaller, cheaper, and all-around better will be available anyway. Conventional wisdom dictates that, if a piece of consumer electronics dies, it dies in the first day or week anyway, so the standard warranty should be sufficient. --Shane in Seattle ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
