Extended insurance

[Turpitz]

Hi. We had a new kitchen fitted nearly a year ago with all new appliances. We are now getting inundated with letters from comet asking if we want to buy an extended warranty for between £3.60 and £4.50 per month per appliance. This will cost somewhere in the region of £35 per month in total (hob, oven, hood, washing machine, tumble drier, fridge-freezer).

Is it worth it or not?

 

[zipper]

Which manufacturer? It may be worth it for a couple of the products but not necessarily all.

 

[Turpitz]

Hi

Hotpoint for washing things. The rest are mostly indesit - we looked at the "expensive" manufacturers but to be honest we didn't like them

 

[big-all]

almost without exception a definate no no
they often make more money from the extended warentee than the product
they tend to last 5 to 10 years without failing
put your £500 a year in a special kitty then ask your self if you had to replace every item after 5 years to get to 10 years would you have spent £5.000 pounds !!

dont forget if the product has a design fault and it breaks at less than 6 years old dependant on cost[reasonable life expectancy]consumer direct
say it must be fit for purpose and last 6 years

 

[Leccy758]

As a little note for you Hotpoint and Indesit are the same company

Indesit own Hotpoint, Creda, Ariston + many others