Best Buy Extended Warranty

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Best Buy Extended Warranty Reviews

June 25, 2007

More great service from Best Buy

Best Buy- 4650 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, 52402 - (319) 294-1030

I received my Ipod Nano 4gb in December as a gift. After about 4 months of owning the Ipod, It starts locking up. I let it die and charge it up. After fully charging over night, its locked up again. I let it die once more, and then when I go to connect it to my computer, it doesn't respond.

I took the Ipod in to Best Buy. Get told flat out, the extended warranty will not be warranted. Then I asked the employee if he could help me help contact a place to fix it. He wouldn't. More great service from Best Buy. I'm pretty frustrated with them. The warranty was purchased for this exact reason.

April 16, 2007

Extended Warranty is a rip off!

Two years ago we purchased a laptop from Best Buy and also bought the extended service plan. About six months ago the laptop monitor began to crack, and we took it to the store and spoke to the geek squad. At that time they told us that this is a common problem with the hinges on the laptops but that it wasn't covered under our warranty because it is considered "accidental damage". We argued at that time that it wasn't accidental damage but that the hinges wouldn't move. The recommendation of the geek squad member was to use an external monitor.

We keep the laptop on a desk so we didn't argue the point and removed the screen so that we could use an external monitor. About a week ago we took the laptop to Best Buy geek squad and asked that they fix the hard drive because it had gone bad. The Geek Squad Manager told us, that because we had removed the screen, the hard drive issue wasn't under warranty because the laptop had been "abused". We explained to the manager that the geek squad had told us to remove the monitor when we brought it in for the screen cracking. He even admitted that the hinge problem was a common issue and that even if we had brought the laptop in with the screen cracking it would have been considered abuse, and they would not warranty the hard drive.

We went back and forth for about a half an hour and he told us to call the 1-800 number to get customer service to authorize the repair. When we called customer service they said that the laptop would not be warrantied. They said that they had no control over what would be warrantied because Best Buy warranties are managed by another company. They would not fix the laptop hard drive even though the monitor does not affect the hard drive condition.

We will need to purchase another hard drive or laptop to replace the laptop. Also Best Buy will not refund our entire ($300) extended warranty, only the amount for the year remaining even though they wont warranty the laptop and have never done any other repair on anything we have purchased from them.

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