twesterm said: I've actually never disagreed that anyone that sells a warranty makes money off the warranty since they're selling essentially air and every now and then a replacement, but it's still nice to cover your ass since electronics break all the time whether or not you take extra good care of them.

This is still a digression from the thread, so I'll make it quick.  My point is that if you set aside the amount of money you'd pay for a service plan every time you buy electronics, you could replace your failed electronics easily and have plenty of money left over.  Of course, Entroper is right that you need to do the cost-benefit analysis for bigger electronics, but bigger electronic can often be repaired for the cost of a service plan.

Bodhesatva: what are you doing as a retail grunt.  You seem like a really sharp guy.

The PS3 version of Ratatouille is not listed on this week's release list at GamaSutra.com, so either it's running late or got dropped due to timing constraints. (Assuming it was actually announced and we're not all just making assumptions.)

@ddobson

According to:
http://ps3.ign.com/objects/882/882530.html

There should be a version of Ratatouille, but if that is true or not I have no idea...

 EDIT: It seems like the Wii and the xbox360 have a lot more info than the PS3 version, so mayby IGN just assumed that all plattforms would have the game.

I think that I can live with the risk of not buying insurance for everything except for the car... even if you'end up with a defective console before the first year, you have your warranty as your best friend,if its afer the first year, you could always repair it for a little bit more (or even less in the case of expensive electronics) of what the extended warranty costs.

To ths date, only laptop computers have failed on me (I have a working SNES to this date). I got the laptops repaired for less than one hundred dollars , the extended warranty was sold for two hundred. And besides, the laptops failed after three years of purchase, so the warranty wouldnt even be used to cover it.

So, in my experience, only the car insurance is worth it.

After some digging around, I discovered that the PS3 version of Ratatouille isn't expected to ship until "this holiday season". At that time, there's also supposed to be a 2nd DS version. ;>

DKII said: After some digging around, I discovered that the PS3 version of Ratatouille isn't expected to ship until "this holiday season". At that time, there's also supposed to be a 2nd DS version. ;>

As Ratatouille is a Disney/Pixar film, if they are indeed withholding the PS3 version as a holiday season special, I expect it would ship as an exclusive bundle with a Blu-Ray home video release. Given the film and the game would both be six months old by the time December rolls around, that would fit a normal home video release timeline.

I think they may just be missing out on american sales as the movie released here 6/29 and it seems that it is scheduled for a Q3 or early October release in the U.K. around when the movie premiers there. Somewhat odd that they would miss two game movie tie-ins if they already missed Shek 3 I'd say maybe its just the audience their selling to but then I'm not sure why they would release the game at all instead of just releasing it late as they are doing with Ratatouille.

Dryden - the game is being developed by THQ though, not Disney. It could be the game just wasn't ready -- originally done on 360 and not ported over in time. And then they're saving it for near the Blu-Ray/DVD release now. Dunno.

twesterm said: jlauro said: twesterm said: Slightly off topic but I use to work in Geek Squad, and let me tell you, not buying the protection plan for any system or item is fairly silly. People use to come in all the time with broken shit (iPods, cameras, PC's, printers, PS2's, TV's, vacuum cleaners, ect.) and always got pissed off when I told them they had to pay if they wanted me to do anything for them because they didn't bother buying any kind of waranties. Also, buy buy warranties on MP3 players, especially iPods. All of those break all the time and you'll save yourself a fair amount of grief. /off topic Depends how you treat your stuff. Never regretted not having it... By the time something breaks, half the time I wouldn't remember where I purchased it from anyways. lol No matter how you treat your stuff, stuff breaks. I treat my things like they were made of some kind of precious plastic and things still break over time (I have one those uber Dyson vacuums and it has had to go in for repairs twice actually). Luckily, I know better and my shit is covered.

Paying for insurance on every piece of electronics you own is a huge waste of money. Insurance is designed to benefit the insurer not the insuree thus, over time it doesnt pay off which is why insurers are so succesful. They put fear into people and you are just playing into it. For every person you saw with a broken part there were 97 other people who didnt have a problem. What about those 97 people? If they baught those overpriced insurance policies then they got ripped off. Like other have said, only pay for a warranty on an item that is out of your normal affordability range. For most folks that should be in the $1k or over range.

Bod,

Off for the holidays? Let us know when you get back to work. I enjoy reading this thread quite a bit.