Alexander. Posted January 24, 2019 Posted January 24, 2019 I purchased my PC last year and it comes with a full extended year protection. I never really believed in warranties for electrical purchases until now. I purchased my Laptop from Currys PC World in September, in 2018. The employee said the damaged wasn't caused by liquid alternatively it was because of typing excessively which caused a fault in the keyboard? There is an option to renew it for another 3 years for £15.00 a month when it expires. I'm considering of renewal as I need it for my self employed free lance work. The repair would cost me £160.00 + Labour and parts so it's probably worth thinking about. What's your view on warranties, do you have one and have you ever had to use it?
skyfire Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 First typing excessively should not be much of an issue. Each new keyboard these days can handle more type hits than the old keyboards. I think for console 1 year warranty is a must. Plus there can be extended year warranty. But for the PC, I think there should be minimum 2 year warranty. And some components should be repaired into that. Not having warranty or having the components break after the warranty can be pretty difficult in that case.
killamch89 Posted January 29, 2019 Posted January 29, 2019 I have used a warranty only once when I received a PC with a faulty motherboard when I much younger. Warranties are really useful but you need to read it carefully to fully understand what circumstances does the warranty apply and what can void it. I see you mentioned that the warranty renewal will be 15 dollars a month for 3 years which comes up to 540 while repairing it is 160 + labour and parts which I suspect would be around 300 dollars. I find it odd that typing too much on a laptop keyboard would do that because I also type a lot on my Acer Gaming laptop as well and I have never encountered such an issue. As @skyfire mentioned, keyboards especially on laptops are designed to take a pounding so they should repair your laptop no questions asked because that is a faulty laptop keyboard because no laptop keyboard I know is supposed to break from something like that.
