• Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldM
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      5 months ago

      These things are especially evil in Australia where consumer protections are stronger and usually exceed the stated warranty.

      I’ve had this conversation many times:

      “Can I interest you in an extended warranty with that?”

      “No thanks, it’s no better than consumer protection”

      “Fair enough. Had to ask”

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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      5 months ago

      These laptop fans I bought a while back had a warranty of 60 days. At that stage I wonder why even bother. They worked just fine for years, though.

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      5 months ago

      When i worked for office Max, back when they still existed, they told us to always always always push the “extended warranty”…

      $4.00 on a $15.00 calculator… Even if you’re making minimum wage, the time spent dicking around with the warranty crap, you could have bought a better calculator when the first broke.