And on the 366th day, the Lord said:

[TetsuoShima]

The article

 

Dell rules: NOT!!!!

 

:D

[Guest c4evap]

Hahaha...you're getting a DUD dude!

 

c4 :cyclops:

[Hilander72]

If you're able, build you're PC from scratch...

 

The individual parts are usually covered by factory warranties up to 5 years (for free!). The "extended" insurrance is only a cost to cover the sellers arses for future costs (they claim the factory warranty, which you can do yourself for free). If you claim a warranty after a year, which is usually not done, since most computers becomes "obselete" within a couple of years and it's often cheaper and easier to buy a new hdd or whatever breaks down first.

 

From experiance I have claimed warranties from Quantum, IBM, Seagate and several other companies for hdd's older than 4 years and there was no problems, but it took 1-2 month to get a replacement. On the bonus side the replacements for old hdd's are usually new hdd's (faster, larger), since they don't have any of the old models in storage. ;)

 

I have worked as a servicetech in the 90s and I used to collect old broken hdd's we had sold (all distributer invoices are needed to make the claim) and when I had 10-20 hdd's (with all necessary invoices) I contacted the company in question and sent them the hdd's the accepted as covered by warranty and I usually sold the replacements as used to "good" customers, for a 90% profit. :)

(sending 1 hdd is not worth the freight cost).

[bones2097]

son of a .....

[kyran]

I build conputers but you need to be close or the shipping will kill you

[Antipodean]

If you're able' date=' build you're PC from scratch...[/quote']

 

 

Always. It's not actually that hard, and you can save yourself a motza.