When offered the optional warranty on (whatever) at checkout, I always say “No thanks” – followed by “… because I know if this product you are selling me is defective, you will make it right.”
I buy the extended warranties for electronics if and only if they cover the dumb stuff my kids do to their equipment. Most other extended warranties are a waste of money.
My eldest dropped her school computer on the floor within the first quarter (case and all) and it killed the hard drive. Thankfully, we had paid for insurance. She also broke her headphones this month. We were delighted to pay the extended warranty when she got a new pair – $10 for two years is an almost guaranteed win in this case.
Used to be if you bought a Craftsman hand tool it was warranted for life. Of course Sears is all but out of business, which could be related to that policy, though I strongly doubt it. Meanwhile, if you bought a Kenmore product (Sears brand kitchen appliances) you got a much shorter warranty and an offer to buy an extended one. That extended warranty, averaged over all the Kenmore appliances I’ve bought, has saved my bacon (literally: The fridge failed while we were on vacation) exactly once, and has cost far more than the total of the payments.
Bottom line: In my experience, the extended warranty is priced well above actual value. Just like Caulfield’s offer.
I met a guy once who liked to use an I-forget-what-size socket from a Craftsman wrench set as a guitar slide. It was a weight he liked, gave him the sound he wanted, and if anything happened to it? Craftsman warranty to the rescue.
djlactin over 4 years ago
Brilliant!
mddshubby2005 over 4 years ago
“Extended warranty? How can I lose?” Homer Simpson
whahoppened over 4 years ago
More likely they had an answer and needed to come up with a question.
Anathema Premium Member over 4 years ago
An extended warranty would be right answers that later become wrong. Needless to say it’s not necessary.
AndrewPetersen over 4 years ago
Seriously…a semantics debate on This Comic?
sandpiper over 4 years ago
Where there’s a way, somebody will
pony21 Premium Member over 4 years ago
When offered the optional warranty on (whatever) at checkout, I always say “No thanks” – followed by “… because I know if this product you are selling me is defective, you will make it right.”
Herb L 1954 over 4 years ago
Caufield will be a great lawyer/politician ;(
The Brooklyn Accent over 4 years ago
Am I the only one who’s parsing Caulfield’s statement in the second panel to say he’ll replace not his answers if they’re wrong, but the questions?
jbarnes over 4 years ago
I buy the extended warranties for electronics if and only if they cover the dumb stuff my kids do to their equipment. Most other extended warranties are a waste of money.
My eldest dropped her school computer on the floor within the first quarter (case and all) and it killed the hard drive. Thankfully, we had paid for insurance. She also broke her headphones this month. We were delighted to pay the extended warranty when she got a new pair – $10 for two years is an almost guaranteed win in this case.
Concretionist over 4 years ago
Used to be if you bought a Craftsman hand tool it was warranted for life. Of course Sears is all but out of business, which could be related to that policy, though I strongly doubt it. Meanwhile, if you bought a Kenmore product (Sears brand kitchen appliances) you got a much shorter warranty and an offer to buy an extended one. That extended warranty, averaged over all the Kenmore appliances I’ve bought, has saved my bacon (literally: The fridge failed while we were on vacation) exactly once, and has cost far more than the total of the payments.
Bottom line: In my experience, the extended warranty is priced well above actual value. Just like Caulfield’s offer.
childe_of_pan over 4 years ago
I met a guy once who liked to use an I-forget-what-size socket from a Craftsman wrench set as a guitar slide. It was a weight he liked, gave him the sound he wanted, and if anything happened to it? Craftsman warranty to the rescue.