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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Sears Maintenance Contracts
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 20:44:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 20:44:32 1984
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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...