Interesting post on Extended Warranties
Here's a link on a way to 'game' extended warranties. I'm not sure this would work if people started doing it regularly but it's interesting. Not b/c I think it's cool to game stores or anything of that sort, but mainly b/c few things are as annoying as the hard sell on extended warranties.
I was at the Best Buy in Bellevue, WA a few months ago and heard an entirely different (but very cool) way to deal with these sales pitches... This guy was buying a laptop and the sales dude started the pitch. The guy said "I'm absolutely positive I'm not interested in an extended warranty" right after he told the guy "I'll take it". So they sales guy says "That's fine, there's no pressure to get an extended warranty." Then he proceeded to ask "May I ask why you aren't interested?" Then the customer said "No." The sales guy said "Ok , I understand" made some smalltalk and then asked "But it's such a good deal, I just am really curious why anyone wouldn't be interested." The dude replied "For the same reason I'm no longer interested in buying the computer, cancel my order" and started walking. If everyone did that for an entire day, I wonder if Extended Warranties would go away for good?