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Generally worthless, but there are exceptions (none / 0) (#11)
by Anonymous User on Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 08:15:44 AM PDT

Our dishwasher failed after about 5 years (motor burned out). I called Sears Service (it's a Kenmore) and the representative said they could sell me an extended warranty and it would cover the repair. I bought it, and it did, saving me about $100. And I got an additional year of coverage, which it turns out I never needed.

I've heard to get extended warranties on notebook computers and Apple computers. My Dell notebook warranty just paid for itself when the internal CD burner/DVD drive failed at 2.5 years. I've never needed to use the AppleCare warranties on a (now) nearly 3 year old iMac, a 2.5 year old iBook and a 1 year old iMac, but I know that any failure on these I wouldn't be able to fix myself (I've fixed my own PC desktops) and would cost more than the warranty no matter what failed.

Beyond that, I must say that I've never owned a car or appliance where an extended warranty would have paid, nor have I bought any.

We did get an extended warranty when we bought a first-model-year Ford Taurus in 1986. It was (for the time) such a complex car that we were frightened by the possibilities for failure. As it turns out, during the course of the 60,000 warranty,  the only thing that failed was the electric motor for the car seat, and that wasn't covered!



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