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Originally Posted by khalleron
It's gambling with really long odds. If you insure all your electronics, the price you pay far outweighs the likelihood of actual breakage.
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Right, but I doubt everyone here with an extended warranty is buying EWs on ALL their stuff. There are more options than NEVER and ALWAYS.
I bought an extended warranty on my new Sony PRS-950 because it was a mere $25 and the unit had been a floor model and goodness knows what the poor thing had been through. I consider that a fairly solid investment for an eReader because (a) it costs $200, (b) I intend to carry it around quite a bit and it's long and thin and relatively fragile and I've already seen a clumsy store employee break one.
I *didn't* buy an EW for my $200 phone because I expect to replace it at near-full price in a few years for an upgrade anyway, plus it's small and fairly compact and it's a lot less likely to "snap" from someone sitting on it wrong.
EWs aren't scams any more than, say, life insurance is a scam. You're placing a bet that you hope to lose -- you're betting money that your device will break, and you're hoping that you're wrong. For some devices, under certain life conditions, for some consumers, it's a great deal -- for others, it's not.
To each their own.