Protection Plans

Circuit City and Best Buy offer two kinds of coverage. They are either the standard coverage and the accidental coverage. They both offer accidental coverage on Digital Cameras, Notebooks, and gaming consoles.In my opinion it is worth to get a accidental coverage on a digital camera. Let me tell you a story. I just bought a digital camera june 06 at Circuit City with there accidental coverage. It was a sony dsc-p200. There was not a problem with it but I hated the camera cause it would take blurry pictures. Anyways I dropped it on "accident" a couple of times which cracked the lcd. Then I called the service people up and sent it in. A week later they told me they cannot fix it and sent me a gift card worth the purchase amount of the original camera plus tax. So if your the person who wants a new camera every year, just spend the extra on the accidental and you'll make yourself happy. They may make money but thats the way business goes. Peope will make money off of you reguardless of what your buying. Those are my two cents.

curtailed their return policy. Lying, cheating, and stealing are not OK.

Well first of all I agree that Costco should change their return policy. It is crazy for someone to buy a tv or etc and return/exchange it a year later just because they didn't like it. Those are the people that are hurting them the most. Costco is also trying to change their return policy similar to match big box stores like Circuit city and Best Buy because they are trying to cut their loses. Circuit City and Best Buy at least had a sensible one that they state to you. In my case, my camera took very blurry shots but I knew for a fact that they would not fix it because they told me it was not a mechanical issue. The guy on the phone basically told me to drop it on accident and send it in. So I did just that and got a gift card. At least I purchased an accidental coverage on my camera and in my opinion didn't really do anything wrong.