Paying For A Warranty
My car stereo has been acting up and so I decided to replace it. My first port of call is the car dealership. I call them up give them my VIN number and the guy at the end of the line tells me that it will cost me $962 total to have the job done.
"962 dollars!", I yell at him. "What does the stereo include?", I ask him.
Apparently, I'll be getting exactly the same stereo as I have. No bells, no whistles. Just a CD player and radio. In addition, the stereo comes with a warranty.
For someone who has never paid for a warranty, I was not about to enter the live by fear band wagon. When I buy something, I don't expect it to last forever. Whats more, my car is 6 years old and it's useless to buy a stereo that will outlast it.
Instead, I've settled for a much cheaper car stereo from Circuit City. With them offering free car stereo installation, I'm saving myself $50 which I would have paid at Best Buy had I bought the same stereo.
For the $962 I could have gotten my car pimped up with a DVD player, screens and some serious woofers. But I guess I'm well past that stage in life.
First thing I'll do when I pick up the car tomorrow is to hook up my wife's mp3 player onto it. I just loaded it with over 100 albums from my Kenyan music collection. Sweet:)
1 comments:
its cheap at that price, I'd get it, cos we are going back to the buy to last thingy rather than the throw-away thingy we have been on for the past generation. check out the tyres made of corn and stuff like that. kids travel well with DVD in the back seats, and then you won't have to play eye spy for 4 hours at a time.
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