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Originally Posted by thesquare
Do you have to be a Geek Squad member to have them come to your house and switch out a TV ?
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That's two different things. If you buy a TV in the store, you pick it up at the store and take it home. You can have Tom at Villager AV
Villages AV set it up for you. You can set it up yourself, it's not hard to do, I've done many. You pay Best Buy for delivery and set up for $50, but that's all you get.
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The TV will have a warranty, usually for one year. You can buy an extended warranty. I would only buy an extended on a product you take to the store, a laptop computer, a printer or something similar. For a larger item like a TV, I would join Geek Squad. They say you have 7 days to join after you take the TV home. However, I had a 2017 Samsung TV go black in 2019 that I purchased from Best Buy. I only had the manufacturers one year warranty. I called BB and they let me purchase the Geek Squad membership at that time for $199 for a year. They came to the home and diagnosed the problem, came 4 days later with the part and fixed the TV. I had to pay for the part and $50 for the initial visit and then I coverage for the remainder of 12 months.
I just got a renewal notice for another year of Geek Squad. I cancelled the renewal, why have it when the TV is working fine. Just buy it when the TV goes out, and then it's good for 12 months from that point on.
In reality I'm done paying to repair a TV, you can buy a newer better product than the one you're having fixed for only a couple hundred more than what Geek Squad is going charge to fix the old TV.