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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
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Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho
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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.


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