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Get a warranty from SquareTrade

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Have you ever purchased something online from eBay or even a retail store and then later wished that you’d purchased a warranty for the item? Or perhaps you are like my husband and I and you purchased an item but the extra warranty offered by the store was just so expensive that you balked at paying such a high price for coverage that you might not ever use?

That’s right. Chris and I purchased an HD video camera and a Digital SLR camera from Best Buy this past Sunday. The two items and accessories cost us well over $3000. We were offered extended warranties for both items, but do you know how much those extended warranties would have cost us if we’d purchased them? Close to $800! That’s almost a quarter of the price that we paid in total for the two electronic items! Geez! We could get a new washer, dryer or even a desktop computer for that price!

This is where Square Trade comes in. SquareTrade offers warranties on electronics and appliances at 30 to 50% below retail. It doesn’t matter if you purchased your electronic item or appliance online or in a retail store you can get a warranty for the item.

Now if Best Buy had offered their extended warranty at half the price that I just told you about we might have purchased it. It’s there loss I suppose. Now that I know about SquareTrade I’ve looked into the warranties that they offer for the two items that we purchased and the warranty prices really are about half the price of what we were offered at the retail store on Sunday.

The website states that warranty claims are served within five days and that they do not charge for deductibles. You can also cancel or trade your warranty at any time.

The site looks pretty easy to use. Go to the main page of the site and click on the “Get a Care Plan” button, or the “Get a warranty” button at the top of the page.

There are two columns on the page that you are brought. One if for an item purchased from a retail store and the other is for an item purchased from eBay. Pick the correct button and begin filling out information as to what product you purchased as well as the purchase price and date if you bought from a retail store, or simply fill in the eBay product number if you bought from eBay.

Once you fill out your information you’ll be offered a warranty for the item. Once you’ve read the information on what you are being offered you can purchase the warranty.

If you do purchase warranties through SquareTrade you’ll be able to manage your warranties and any claims you make towards those warranties online via the SquareTrade system.

SquareTrade covers items purchased from online and offline stores such as Amazon, Dell, Sears, BestBuy, Circuit City and many more. Plus, you can buy warranties for any times that you purchased in 2007. It doesn’t have to be a recent purchase as far as I can tell.

Warranties are only available to buyers in the USA at this time. Being in Canada I won’t get to try out the SquareTrade service, but if you are a US resident you might want to take a look at what they have to offer and decide if purchasing a warranty via SquareTrade is right for you.






Wirefly sells cell phones on Ebay

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I didn’t realize this but Wirefly, one of the largest independent retailers of cell phones and accessories sells some of their surplus cell phone inventories on EBay.

Wirefly has great deals on cell phones and cell phone packages that include a mobile phone plan on their company site, but if you are just looking to either get a new phone or an extra phone because you already have a plan that you are happy with or that you re locked into for a certain amount of time you can simply go to their Ebay site and purchase a phone without a phone plan.

As I looked through the site I saw that they have all of the latest styles of name brand cell phones on their Ebay site, so you don’t have to worry that you might only be able to find older models there.

One thing that I do like about their Ebay site is that you can read all the Wirefly writeups of Wirefly itself on the companies main Ebay Wirefly page, and when you click on a phone that is for sale on the site you’ll get the same high quality information about that particular phone as you would if you were on the Wirefly website.

Go visit if you want to save some money on your next new cell phone.

Wirefly sells surplus cell phone inventory on eBay. So you can get a great deal on a phone without a plan. (You can get a free cell phone on Wirefly.com, but you need to commit to a 2-year plan)

Use Bidnapper to win your Ebay auctions

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I occasionally visit Ebay and check out the various items that are being sold there. Sometimes you can find some really good deals on garden ornaments, tools, and even solar or wired lighting for the garden.

I’ve only ever won a bid once! Luckily I just came across a software program called auction sniper that works by delivering bids to Ebay auctions at the last minute in a process called “snipping”. If I decide to use this software I’ll have a better chance of winning the auctions on items that I would really like to purchase.

The website offers a free 15 day trial of Bidnapper. If you enjoy bidding on auctions frequently you might be interested in purchasing a subscription with the company for as low as $6.95 per month or $46.95 for a years service. Subscriptions give you unlimited bidding for one, three, six or twelve months. Unlimited bidding means there are no restrictions on the number of bids you can place, or auctions you can win. Charges are not based on a percentage of your winning bid, as with other services.

Your username with be protected from searches by your competition, and you’ll be able to hold prices down by not bidding throughout the auction. You can even change or delete your bids without any hassle.

The dynamics of online auctions have been studied by University researchers in economics, mathematics, and physics, and the research has shown that experienced bidders who participate in “late bidding” are often successful in their attempts to secure auction items. If you’re an “Ebay Junkie” Bidnapper might be perfect for you.

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