{"id":57727,"date":"2017-12-13T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=57727"},"modified":"2017-12-13T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:07:40","slug":"refurb-goods-and-shortened-warranties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=57727","title":{"rendered":"Refurb goods and shortened warranties"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my son’s XBOX ONE died age 18m I was happy to have my AMEX extended warranty at hand.<\/p>\n

Except, they correctly pointed out, it was a refurb and had a limited 90 day warranty.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough I’d never run into this before; I assumed a normal warranty. Why buy something the seller predicts will fail prematurely? That would require a hell of a discount.<\/p>\n

If I ever buy refurb again the product will have to have a full warranty period.<\/p>\n

Penance paid, lesson learned, shared, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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