2007-12-14 11:20:01 · 4 answers · asked by ? 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
Personally I would get an extended warranty. If that tv breaks and it needs to be replaced, you just have to exchange it!
example: Your tv breaks in 2 years and obviously in 2 years the technoligy will be better. With the warranty you can just exchange it for the value you payed for you tv. Meaning you get a better tv for the same price you payed originaly! Then if you want you can pay a few hundred dollars to get a bigger and better tv. Versus paying another $800-2000 for a new tv!
Its your choice. I buy warrantys all major things i buy including vehicles!!!
Its a machine and machines break!!! No matter how good the product is!!
BTW: I just had a Sony crt HD tv break 1 month after the factory warranty expired. Since I purchased the warranty, it needed to be replaced so I upgraded th a bigger and better 32 inch LCD hd tv at NO CHARGE!!!!!!!
My 2 cents!
2007-12-14 12:03:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm glad you asked. Circuit City's warranty is a bit different than some others. You did well by purchasing one and I suggest you keep it. You did not state the price of your TV, but I'm going to assume it was considerable. I don't have the "Bravia" LCD, but a Sony Wega I bought from Best Buy. Boy, am I glad I bought the $299 service warranty; the first warranty I ever bought for anything. What can go wrong? I'll only mention a few of the many. The "engine" can go out, which is the mirror device that projects the image onto the screen. Mine went out and would have cost $900 to replace. The lamp can burn out. Mine did and would have cost about $250 to replace. The LCD TV's have three full sized screens; blue, green and red (the primary colors of any TV set). Any one of them can loose pixels. Typical warranties will not replace either or all of them unless you loose at least 6 pixels, which would leave you with white spots on your screen. I have not have that problem and it is rare. However it does happen and to watch a TV with small white spots is maddening I would think. Circuit City's warranty differs from others in this respect. If you do not use it, they will give you a free lamp at the time it expires. This is the cost of a new lamp which you will at one point need, no matter what you do. At between 3000 and 6000 hours of use, it will burn out. It may at best last 9000 hours (The life of a plasma TV), but it WILL burn out. This option in your warranty pays for it hands down. The problems I had occurred was after the first year, therefore buying the warranty was a good choice. The reason it is for 3 years is statistically people replace their TV's every - you guessed it - 3 years. Since my TV was $3000, I invested in the warranty because I did not intend to replace that investment in such a short period of time. I just received my second lamp (by mail) only one month before my warranty was to expire. I saved $1400 by purchasing the extended warranty. As a side note, I also purchased two LG LCD computer monitors at the same time I bought my 50" Sony LCD TV. They were $750 each and I did not buy extended warranties for them. They are still working fine and now sell for $300. Had I purchased warranties for them, they would have expired by now and the price of the warranties would have nearly been what the selling price of them now are.
2016-04-09 03:38:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had a number of Sony TVs in my life and never had a problem with them. I currently have a 32" CRT Sony XBR HDTV that I've had for 7 years and a 40" Sony Bravia LCD HDTV that I got a couple of years ago, and I never experienced any problems with them.
Personally, I never get an extended warranty. I think they're kind of a rip-off. If you don't have any problems during the factory warranty period (usually 1 year) it's very unlikely you'll ever have a problem in the next 4 years. That's why electronics and appliance retailers push the extended warranties. They know that they'll likely just take your money and never hear from you again.
In fact, if you ever do a search on-line for a TV or something and find a price that seems too good to be true, chances are they will tell you the TV is in stock and then ask you if you want to purchase an extended warranty. And, if you get the TV but don't get the extended warranty, they'll put you in backorder limbo and, even after they've charged your credit card, make you wait for months before they either deliver the product or you cancel your purchase.
Don't get it. You won't need it.
2007-12-14 11:36:28 · answer #3 · answered by Paul in San Diego 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i think u should its worth it
2007-12-15 05:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by First L 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋