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From: heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apples Warranty Sucks (was Re: LaCie...)
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Date: 27 Sep 89 17:53:44 GMT
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In article <1989Sep26.124447.23473@hellgate.utah.edu> t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs) writes:
>In article <32434@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@src.honeywell.com (Murat N. Konar) writes:
>
>>whole point of offering only a 90 day warranty is that it gives customers
>>an incentive to buy AppleCare.  AppleCare makes dealers lots of money.
>
>Boy, It's even more of an incentive to buy a 3rd party internal drive with
>a 1-5 year warranty!!!!!

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?

>
>Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu

Todd Heberlein
heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu	128.120.57.20