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Dell 3yr Warranty Worth It?

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For $150 I can get the 3 year warranty rather than a 1 year. Is this worth the money?
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NO!
dell=fail, and so do their warranties. Fix it yourself if it breaks.
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Originally Posted by sgdude View Post
NO!
dell=fail, and so do their warranties. Fix it yourself if it breaks.
Wow, I've heard nothing but awesome about Dell warranties
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dells warranty is verry good. I highly reccomend it for a laptop. But if your buying a desktop why not build it yourself?

ive had a dell desktop and lappy before and whenever i had a problem (hardware wise) there would be a replacement part at my doorstep in 2 business days :]
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One of my friends laptop started having issues just after 3 years. His screen got lines of dead pixels. I usually don't buy the extended warranties, mainly because of the logic: If they offer them, then they are making money off them.

The odds are that you won't use it.
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Yes forgot to mention it is for a laptop.

Still a relatively close vote!
I believe the 3 Year Warranty is called The Overclock.net Option.
Kopi with the 8600m GT on the XPS get the warranty the cards are flawed and warranty a very good idea.
I'm looking at a Studio XPS, ATi 3670
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How much are you spending? A laptop or Camera would probably be the only two items that I would get a warranty on.
With 1yr warranty, about $1400 before tax. With the 3yr warranty, about $1550 before tax.
I would not buy the 3 year warranty unless it included accidental damage. I am down on warranty's in general. That price does seem fair for 2 extra years.
Since this is for a laptop, then if you have the money I would buy it because you can't necessarily repair a laptop like you can a desktop (assuming it covers accidental damage and not just hardware failure)
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With 1yr warranty, about $1400 before tax. With the 3yr warranty, about $1550 before tax.
Since your spending that much I would say go for it.
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I think I've decided not to bother with the warranty. Its works out to 10% basically and I'm pretty sure I can fix most of the issues I have, if its serious...hopefully its within the first year
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Originally Posted by mortimersnerd View Post
How much are you spending? A laptop or Camera would probably be the only two items that I would get a warranty on.
I sent a laptop in once because the screen stopped working they sent it back and told me the screen isn't covered.
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If it's for the accidental breakage and such, and you tend to break things, then sure. Otherwise no.

You can extend warranty later on if you'd like.
Dell, in general, makes me cry. The customer service is nothing but a bunch of PC gamers/computer builders working partime, or you will get a foreign agent who speaks with such a bad accent that you wont understand him nor will he understand you. Because of Dell, my computer came with a 80GB HD instead of the 160GB i ordered. They sent me 50 dollars back as a compensation, but still, i was very dissapointed. They are a pathetic company and stay away from them.

That is my


But get the warantee, you probobly will need it IMO.
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