Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!utastro!bigtex!pmafire!geoff From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apples Warranty Sucks (was Re: LaCie...) Message-ID: <793@pmafire.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 20:07:02 GMT References: <89092403144572@masnet.uucp> <524@cpdaux.UUCP> <32434@srcsip.UUCP> <1989Sep26.124447.23473@hellgate.utah.edu> <5439@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1124@key.COM> <1989Sep29.145311.9386@ee.rochester.edu> Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 21 In article <1989Sep29.145311.9386@ee.rochester.edu> rajiv@ee.rochester.edu (Rajiv Arora) writes: >In article <1124@key.COM> russ@xanadu.key.COM (Russell Donnan) writes: >>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! But you DO have to pay exhorbitant interest rates if you don't pay it off in a month. :-) Seriously, thanks for the info. I've got a Citibank Classic MC and didn't know about that. -- Geoff Allen \ Disclaimer: WINCO doesn't believe in Macs, {uunet,bigtex}!pmafire!geoff \ so of course these are my views. ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff \