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let me say first and foremost that i LOVE your listed location, scott... got a rise out of me.
for the moment i work at a home electronics distributor, where i can purchase anything we sell at our cost (normally half retail price). the only problem is a perennial lack of fundage to do so. at this point i'm stumped as to why retail stores mark prices up as much as they do and the whole thing leaves me jaded. why the hell would i want to pay 500 dollars for a tv that i -know- they only brought into their warehouse for 250? it's really maddening.
as to service plans, i don't bother. it just dosen't seem to make sense to me. this stuff is designed to last a specific period of time, all of those plans are well within it. these are just ways for the chains to make more money... sure, they have to fulfill the odd claim here and there, but for every claim they are paying, they're bringing in so much more on policies that they'll never have to do anything with.
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