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Old 06-06-2024, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by huge-pigeons View Post
What a scam. All the clowns in the ads don’t tell you the true cost of the repair. Sure the repair might be $5000 after paying for 3 years, but since you might be paying $200 a month for this bogus extended warranty, you are paying $2400 each year and after 3 years you would have paid $7200 for the insurance, so that $5000 repair after 3 years really cost you $7200.
The repairs they cover do not allow you to take it to any mechanic you choose and they will replace parts with remanufactured parts.

I have purchased 2 new cars almost every 2 or 3 years and only once did I buy an extended warranty because of 2 things:
I thought I would keep this car longer; and the dealer stated that if I sold the car or never use the extended warranty, they will refund the full cost of the extended warranty. I kept the car for 1 year after the original warranty ended, and never used the extended dealers warranty, so they gave me my money back
You should share the dealerships info

With that kind of sales model...he’s probably living in a travel trailer behind the dealership!

Those warranties, again, not the TV ones ....are where most dealerships make their most profits. So your story, if true, is clearly an anomaly