Warranties are a rip-off. Almost every consumer and financial advice columnist or site will tell you not to buy them.
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Originally Posted by clintbradford
For less than thirty bucks, SquareTrade will perform a sixty dollar battery replacement job on my Kobo - if the battery fails in three years. Spending thirty and getting sixty is quite cost effective.
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You're spending $30 to MAYBE get $60. That's a terrible deal, and the exact kind of warranty you should avoid. Insuring against disasters is exactly the right attitude you should have. Everything else should be a pass.
Paying 25% of the price of an item to have "just in case" coverage is really not very wise. It's a very bad gamble.
Consumer Reports can explain it better than me.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/m...anty-11-06.htm
You're better off saving the money.