Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site byucsa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!utah-cs!beesvax!byucsa!universe From: universe@byucsa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Sears Maintenance Contracts Message-ID: <134@byucsa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 09:36:51 EST Article-I.D.: byucsa.134 Posted: Thu Mar 8 09:36:51 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 08:31:29 EST Organization: BYU Compter Science -- Provo UT Lines: 30 <> When my wife and I bought our refrigerator from Sears, The salesman pushed us for a maintenance contract. After figuring out that with the contract, I would pay for the refrigerator several times over, I decided I'd take my chances and told them no. About two weeks later, I got a note from Sears again asking me about a maintenance contract. I threw it away. Then, a man called me from Sears, asking about a maintenance contract. I told him no. Two months later, a woman called my wife and asked her about maintenance contracts, noting that since there were "a lot of fields by where we lived," we had to worry about "mice chewing through the wires and tubes under the refrigerator," since they would be sure to run in whenever she was holding the door open talking to the neighbors. Needless to say, we didn't get the contract. We also didn't get one for the Kenmore sewing machine, which we bought a year later, even though they called every bit as much. At least they haven't called for the washer we bought a year ago. Maybe they're leaing. After talking to one of the salesmen, I found that they get quite a commission on those contracts, which have a fairly high markup by Sears. All in all, though, I've been happy with Sears, maintenance contracts aside. Daryl