[D Hanson]

I usually never go for the warranties these electronics stores always try and sell you. I though what the heck for my last computer.

I have had a slew of problems with the computer and keep getting charged for their efforts to fix. They always seem to find a way to get around the warranty.

When they give the sales pitch about the warranty, they always make it sound like everything is covered and even told me that they will come to your home to fix it which was attractive to me. Last time the mother board flaked out, they made me spend literally hours on the phone with support before they would even consider sending someone out. Total waste of time and I ended up having to take it directly to Comp USA in the end anyway. So much for onsite repairs.

Two more problems in the last week and dropped $ 175 for service charges and $ 399 for a new video card a couple of days ago. Still having problems and now they tell me that it will cost $ 100 to back up a few picture of may car to CD saved under 1 directory and that they will charge me $ 125 an hour.

The sum total of this is that I can buy an entire new CPU box cheaper than what the charges I am incurring and about to incur to try and get my computer fixed under warranty. I think I paid about $ 400 for the warranty on just the computer and also paid like a $ 100 for the LCD monitor to be covered. What a waste of time and money.