Only a fool would buy an extended warrantee. Everyone knows TVs last for at least ten years and then, if it craps out on you, you just buy a new one. I've got a portable TV that's nearly a decade old and nothing has ever gone wrong with it. It's indestructible.
If you have an ounce of common sense you'll know that retailers make a mint from selling useless extended warrantees to gullible consumers - it's the ultimate in fear-consumption. Nothing ever goes wrong with modern TVs. You might be forgiven for purchasing cover for a new washing machine - they have moving parts, anything can go wrong. You'll be a grandparent before your television breaks down.
Every time you buy a new TV, DVD, VCR, PC, Hi-Fi, Washer, Dryer, whatever it is, you are faced with the hard-sell sales assistant on 10% commission trying to tell you that the top-quality comsumer durable he's just spent 20 minutes convincing you to buy is going to go tits up the day after the standard one-year guarrantee runs out. Fear; consume; live.
I bought a new 28" widescreen TV 13 months ago; I didn't get an extended cover plan with it - no fool me! The colour's all fucked up now.
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