Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 1/4/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!bhaskar From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Sears Maintenance Contracts Message-ID: <971@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 20:44:32 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.971 Posted: Tue Mar 13 20:44:32 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Mar-84 00:30:50 EST References: <134@byucsa.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 9 It took Sears one full year to stop pestering me to buy a maintenance contract on a vacuum cleaner -- I received a call every 2 weeks typically. It is amusing how the product salesperson emphasizes how reliable the product is and then the contract salesperson emphasizes how the product really needs to be fixed because it breaks!!! On a related subject -- with three-way phone service, if you get a telephone solicitator who won't shut up and go away, just call your local dial-a-prayer recording number...