On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wondering if any of you are using 3rd party warranty services like > SquareTrade.com for your laptops, tablets or mobile phones and if so > what your experience has been. My opinion (and paraphrasing Consumer Reports recomendation): service plans are designed for the profit of the offerer, not the user. Insurance and service plans are rarely a good deal, and on average, you lose money. A friend who's worked most of the big-box stores tells me they were graded not on how many dollars they sold, but how many service plans. For the MacBook Pro: you definitely want AppleCare for non-accidental repairs. It doesn't cover drops, liquid spills, or other abuse, but solves a LOT of other problems, at a cost that's cheaper than a single repair. The Kindle is a consumable. If it lasts three years, the new model they'll have available now will have so many bells and whistles you'd rather buy-up than repair the old one. As Kam suggests, check your insurance policies for loss coverage. You may already have some. Just as "security is a process and not a feature," insurance is a balancing of risks and costs. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vBDaESkktX33X=MnO5_6r7n_wr+=TBSOV__f=iixa...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
