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JohnnyBuddha · 12-09-2007, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester Molester

When you're buying a piece of electronics, the person pitching the extended warranty isn't doing so for your benefit, they're trying to get the bonuses that come with selling an extended warranty. Although there are exceptions, extended warranties are almost always a ripoff and are just a moneymaker for the store and salesman.

I think most people realize this b/c I never sold to many.

I've read this in a few articles recently and am a bit surprised. I've recently purchased extended warranties for my video iPod and my PS2 when I bought it years ago. I ended up using my PS2 warranty about two years after buying it because it just wore out (the warranty cost $50) and I just sent my iPod in a month ago (~2 years after buying it) because the battery was really weak and it was shutting down randomly. This warranty also cost me about $50.

Do people buy warranties that are shorter than the life-span of what they're buying, do they lose their warranty slips/receipts? I've got a special shoe-box for mine.

Mr. Omoplata · 12-09-2007, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnnyBuddha

Do people buy warranties that are shorter than the life-span of what they're buying, do they lose their warranty slips/receipts? I've got a special shoe-box for mine.

I would assume you don't need to put your warranty receipt in your "shoebox" if you registered the product with the company alongside with your extended warranty. Meaning they would have all that information on their computers.

**Lubaolong** · 12-09-2007, 04:01 PM

I bought a warranty with my washer and dryer. They might not be likely to break, but they were like $2500, and spending an extra $70 is worth the peace of mind.

anaconda · 04:12 PM

edit: never mind...

ElKarlo · 12-09-2007, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by magicman531

My local buffet dumps the days excess food into a bucket outback. Bums come by and are able to take whatever food they want out of it.

So that's why you don't leave tips.

quick5pnt0cobra · 12-09-2007, 04:16 PM

Auto Mechanics: Not all of them are trying to rip you off, but you may be charged much more than you should have been. For example they go off a flat labor rate which means even if it takes them twenty minutes to change your brake pads they will charge an hour+ worth of labor. It's also very common for shops to "guess" what is wrong with the car, throw a part at it, and hope that solves the problem. It doesn't really matter if they had to put unneeded parts on your car because when you come to pay they'll tell you it was all required.

Security guards: They don't guard much. Many times when they see something clearly wrong they'll look the other way just so they don't have to get involved. Also they rarely allowed to physically stop you from doing anything. Instead they're told to call the police.

Fast food: They drop your food on the floor and think nothing of picking it up and putting it back on your plate.

DangerDan · 12-09-2007, 04:31 PM

I currently work at a grocery store

If you get cashback make sure you get it, I always forget to give it to customers.

People assume the scanner goes off when you walk through the door with anything that has a barcode but that's not true. It will go off with makeup or DVD's or anything semi-expensive and not perishable. People always walk out or try to walk out with a cart full of groceries and many get away with it because the alarms don't go off for groceries.

When the alarms do go off and you have a cart full of groceries you have the receipt for and you are a white, middle or upper class citizen they will just wave you on because the alarms go off for cell phones or other things everyonce in a while. If you walked in and it goes off you could make a big scene so everyone that works there knows that it goes off for no apparent reason when you walk through the door, then you could walk around and steal a bunch of shit and hide it in your person and buy some groceries and walk out and be like "remember me? It goes off everytime I go through, I think it's my cell phone or something"

McDonald's: I've dropped a peice of grilled chicken on the ground and we didn't have any more and it takes about 8 minutes to make it so I just picked it up and slapped it on that club sandwich like nothing happened. This probably happens a lot....

We never spit in anybody's food, but fast food is disgusting though. EVERY meat product is frozen solid and we don't make shit ourselves except put it together. The meat is like hockey pucks and one time we were dicking around in the back freezer and we started throwing the pucks at eachother and I got a gash in my hand because they were so hard. Everything has grease. We would dump all the grease out at the end of the day (a few gallons of it!) that was trapped from the patties and it would frequently clog up the back drain so that the drains in the lobby would back up and send nasty ass water into the lobby and flooding it.

DangerDan · 12-09-2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by quick5pnt0cobra

Auto Mechanics: Not all of them are trying to rip you off, but you may be charged much more than you should have been. For example they go off a flat labor rate which means even if it takes them twenty minutes to change your brake pads they will charge an hour+ worth of labor. It's also very common for shops to "guess" what is wrong with the car, throw a part at it, and hope that solves the problem. It doesn't really matter if they had to put unneeded parts on your car because when you come to pay they'll tell you it was all required.

They'll also get you on the towing fee. We got a quote from a tow truck saying it would cost $90 and when we got the car fixed and everything the towing fee was $135. Pay the towtrucker up front so you don't have to deal with that.

limp_dilznick · 12-09-2007, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Lubaolong

99% of Chinese translators in the military don't know how to say 'light bulb' in Chinese.

"Right barb"

Ben Zona · 12-09-2007, 04:48 PM

When i was working in a special area in a life-science-business I found out that the stealing of business knowledge by other firms orwas/is a real problem .
We were always told to be cautious as hell when, for example chinese business-partners were visiting us, hiding any sign that might show with whom else we were working with and stuff like that.