Tag: Insurance
Best Buy Launching Future-Proof Insurance Program Called Buy Back Super Bowl Sunday
Starting this Super Bowl Sunday, Best Buy will be launching what the company is heralding as a technology insurance program for future-proofing your gadget purchases. Essentially, along with your tech purchases at Best Buy stores or online–like a new notebook, desktop, flat screen TV, tablets–you can buy the Buy Back program insurance, which sets a [...]
Black Friday Tip: Pay With The Right Credit Card to Avoid Extended Warranty Rip Offs
Retailers will be pushing expensive accessories, services and extended warranties on Black Friday in an attempt to make a profit off of cut-rate electronics. They are not selling TVs and laptops at 40% (or more) off for the fun of it. Buying an extended warranty is generally unnecessary, especially if you have a decent credit card. [...]
AT&T iPhone Insurance and Some Alternatives
Would you pay $13.99 for insurance on your iPhone? Based on some pictures of internal documents given to Boy Genius it may be coming soon. The cost seems a little steep if that was the only cost. But you would also have a big deductible on top of the monthly charge. Here are the details: [...]
USPS Loses Five Insured ThinkPads, Compensates Owner w/$74
You might want to avoid shipping notebooks via USPS after reading a story over at the Consumerist. A USPS customer shipped his friend five notebooks and insured them for $3,000. The package never showed up across the country, so he filed an insurance claim. The USPS gave the customer $74 for the lost ThinkPads.
