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For once I can say Best Buy Rocks!!!
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Posted by: Commissar

In December of 2000 I started my sprint service by purchasing a LG TP2100 from bestbuy and purchasing the 3 year extended warranty. Phone was around $125, about a year and a half later a battery post broke so my phone would just turn off randomly. Went into Bestbuy and no questions asked gave me a new phone for no extra charge, the new phone was a Samsung a400-POS! at a cost $150. I put up with that phone for nearly a year and a half, but it got to the point where I couldn't stand the dropped calls and poor reception. I took it in and said it dropped calls, and upgraded to a Sanyo 8100 priced at $199 after $30 instant rebate, and they only made me pay the difference between the samsung so it only cost me $53 after tax, but no questions asked on the phone.

So total price out of pocket for me was $125+service plan (3 years ago)+$53 for a new sanyo 8100!

Normally I think the service plans are worthless, but when it comes to cell phones I strongly encourage them. No questions asked, the service plan carried through to the new phone, and I still have it good through the end of this year in case something happens to this phone!

Posted by: RadShackGuyDEN

BBY makes more profit off serviceplans than anything because 90% of the people never use them. I worked there, however, and spent 200 bux about 3.5 years ago on a 16x CDRW drive. Yamaha. Employee price for the $30 serviceplan? 7.35 or something. Over the years, until my contract ran out I upgraded from a 16x, to a 20x, to a 24x, and finally to a 44x CRW-F1. Never paid a cent more. :P

Posted by: Aurora

Best Buy makes a huge, enormous profit off of service plans. They really are great things for some things, and stupid things for others...

But hey, retail is retail...

Posted by: eckoblaze72

i workl for bb and i know that alot of the stuff with service plans seem like a worthless peice of @^@ but if you have electronics and they offer it on the product.. .just think thats you can always bring it back and tell them it has a short and get new one..

I work there and i do it wirh my cell phone. i 've been doing that with my cell phone for years...