Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ur-valhalla!rajiv From: rajiv@ee.rochester.edu (Rajiv Arora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apples Warranty Sucks (was Re: LaCie...) Message-ID: <1989Sep29.145311.9386@ee.rochester.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 14:53:11 GMT References: <89092403144572@masnet.uucp> <524@cpdaux.UUCP> <32434@srcsip.UUCP> <1989Sep26.124447.23473@hellgate.utah.edu> <5439@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1124@key.COM> Reply-To: rajiv@ee.rochester.edu (Rajiv Arora) Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering Lines: 24 In article <1124@key.COM> russ@xanadu.key.COM (Russell Donnan) writes: >In article <5439@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd) writes: >> >>If it can be done, I would recommend purchasing your Apple computer on >>an American Express card to get the extended one year warranty. I >>wish I would have done that-I just forked out about $270 to extend my >>warranty. Has anyone out in NetLand done this or knows if it will >>work? >> >Yes, purchasing your Mac with American Express would increase your warranty, >but it would DOUBLE it, not make it one year. That means 180 days, -or- >6 months to you and me. i.e. not much of a difference for the sake of >paying off an $8,000+ charge in one month. You get the same "double the warranty period" if you use the Citbank Classic Visa/MC cards. And that you DON'T have to pay off in a month! Rajiv Arora -- Addresses: UUCP: ...!rochester!ur-valhalla!rajiv ARPA: rajiv@ee.rochester.edu