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TommyCarey
My family has had computers for a while, but I never owned one by myself. I purchased my first one around 10 years ago and I got it from overstock.com which was a horrible idea. It was a horrible idea because after I purchased I was asked if I wanted to buy a type of insurance deal for 2 years and I was like "Hell Yeah I Do!" so I paid an extra $79 for it and was covered from basically any malfunction for 2 years because I bought the best insurance package they offered me.
Fast forward about a year and the charger fried as well as my battery. I got a hold of overstock and they wouldn't accept my insurance purchase because it was a year old.... yeah, I purchased a 2 year warranty and this thing fried after just a year. They kept giving me the run around and eventually said it was my own fault that the battery went bad, I was furious.
I purchased a new charger that was a universal one with about a dozen charger tips that I could swap out for different types of laptops if I needed to, I also bought a new battery and just popped it in. So now I paid for the laptop $600, paid for the additional warranty $79, paid for a new charger $90, paid for a new battery $50 - $60 (don't remember the exact price). So basically I paid $826 for a laptop that wasn't too fancy
I now build my own desktops and only purchase brand spanking new laptops. I've only ran into one problem since that first purchase, and it was just my hard drive deciding it wanted to fry itself
Anyone else have a good or bad story? Oh man, I actually think I still have my first computer still :D It was a dell laptop and I can't remember the windows version, but I do know I didn't hate it like I hate windows 10 lol :D My family has had computers for a while, but I never owned one by myself. I purchased my first one around 10 years ago and I got it from overstock.com which was a horrible idea. It was a horrible idea because after I purchased I was asked if I wanted to buy a type of insurance deal for 2 years and I was like "Hell Yeah I Do!" so I paid an extra $79 for it and was covered from basically any malfunction for 2 years because I bought the best insurance package they offered me. Fast forward about a year and the charger fried as well as my battery. I got a hold of overstock and they wouldn't accept my insurance purchase because it was a year old.... yeah, I purchased a 2 year warranty and this thing fried after just a year. They kept giving me the run around and eventually said it was my own fault that the battery went bad, I was furious. I purchased a new charger that was a universal one with about a dozen charger tips that I could swap out for different types of laptops if I needed to, I also bought a new battery and just popped it in. So now I paid for the laptop $600, paid for the additional warranty $79, paid for a new charger $90, paid for a new battery $50 - $60 (don't remember the exact price). So basically I paid $826 for a laptop that wasn't too fancy :( I now build my own desktops and only purchase brand spanking new laptops. I've only ran into one problem since that first purchase, and it was just my hard drive deciding it wanted to fry itself :( But that was a quick fix since I had an extra hard drive laying around and had backed up my files on an external hard drive a few weeks prior because my laptop was acting up :D Anyone else have a good or bad story?
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