If you have ever purchased a cell phone then you have been offered insurance for it. It sounds fairly reasonable, a few dollars a month for cell phone insurance and if anything goes wrong with your two hundred dollar cell phone then you are covered. Well maybe, there is this pesky little problem of a deductible you may have to pay.
It does not sound so bad to pay fifty dollars for a deductible on your cell phone insurance, however there are times when it may be ridiculous. Take our situation for example. My husband lost the back to his Razor V-3m cell phone. No big deal we will just run down to the cell phone retail outlet and pick one up. No, that would not be the case, because they do not carry them. You must get a completely new cell phone. Oh, well ok we have insurance that will be fine ahhh.... but we forgot about the deductible so now we can pay $50 to replace a perfectly good cell phone or have no battery cover!
We found another way, one of those decorative plastic covers is now covering the battery of my husbands Razor cell phone and the cell phone insurance we purchased was useless. It may be better to put the few dollars a month you pay for cellphone insurance in a savings account and just buy a cell phone should a problem arise. Just my opinion, you are free to take it or leave it.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Rock Band Review
We finally did it, we gave in and paid nearly $400.00 for a playstation 3. I thought that would be the end of big expenditures for a few days, boy was I wrong! The lovely men of my house decided they absolutely could not live without the newest, koolest game on the planet. So being the loving wife and mother I am, I smiled as we walked away from the store with a big box and without my $170.00 plus tax. We were the proud owners of Rock Band. Which included drums,guitar and microphone for the whole family to play!
I was skeptical at first that Rock Band would hold anyone attention for more than a week. But thankfully I was wrong my son and husband were hooked, making their own bands, getting funky hair cuts and tattos! They were in hog heaven! The game was difficult enough for a challenge but easy enough for me to get a few good gigs in on the drums. I think the producers may have a winner in Rock Band. Except for a few minor problems, like the equipment is crap and you can not return it to the store you purchased it from! We had this game less than 2 months and the guitar malfunctioned. The wammy bar would not work at all. Well we attempted to return it only to be shown the yellow dot on the INSIDE of the box flap that stated we were to contact the website to get it replaced. The official site was a bit difficult to navigate and unless you had a credit card you were not getting help anytime soon! To get the guitar shipped immediately you were to allow them to but $175.00 hold on your account to ensure you returned the bad one. That would not be so bad but it took them 60 days to release our money after they received the defective product. Very frustrating to say the least.
Whithin a month the new Rock Band guitar has begun to have problems and the foot peddle broke on the drum set. At this point I am very fed up with Rock Band and their periphials. The game was a great concept poorly executed. There needs to be better quality equipment and in store returns. All in all I could not recommend this game, the price point is way to high for the shoddy workmanship.
I was skeptical at first that Rock Band would hold anyone attention for more than a week. But thankfully I was wrong my son and husband were hooked, making their own bands, getting funky hair cuts and tattos! They were in hog heaven! The game was difficult enough for a challenge but easy enough for me to get a few good gigs in on the drums. I think the producers may have a winner in Rock Band. Except for a few minor problems, like the equipment is crap and you can not return it to the store you purchased it from! We had this game less than 2 months and the guitar malfunctioned. The wammy bar would not work at all. Well we attempted to return it only to be shown the yellow dot on the INSIDE of the box flap that stated we were to contact the website to get it replaced. The official site was a bit difficult to navigate and unless you had a credit card you were not getting help anytime soon! To get the guitar shipped immediately you were to allow them to but $175.00 hold on your account to ensure you returned the bad one. That would not be so bad but it took them 60 days to release our money after they received the defective product. Very frustrating to say the least.
Whithin a month the new Rock Band guitar has begun to have problems and the foot peddle broke on the drum set. At this point I am very fed up with Rock Band and their periphials. The game was a great concept poorly executed. There needs to be better quality equipment and in store returns. All in all I could not recommend this game, the price point is way to high for the shoddy workmanship.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Saving Money on Electronics
Wanting that new gadget fresh on the market? There are a few things you may want to consider. The first thing I learned about computers and technology was as soon as it gets to the store shelf it is already obsolete. In fact it is six months behind the available knowledge. Now this alone does not equal an immediate savings, but the knowledge can help us to reign in the impulse to run out and buy the new release. I mean who wants to pay full price for out dated technology? Armed with this new information it is wisdom to wait a few months to upgrade your equipment. Also you will have time to acertain whether there will be fatal flaws in the gadget. Prime example from my home would be the new Rockband video game for PS3, had we waited to hear the reviews we would not have bought it so quickly. The guitars wammy bar is prone to problems and you have to mail them into the company to get a new one.
Now that we have determined to wait you can be sure that Best Buy and Circuit City will soon be putting that new blu-ray player on sale. If you can not wait and have to have it right now, do yourself a huge favor and comparison shop until you drop. Wal-Mart will price match many items from competitors within a forty-mile radius. Well thats all the grand wisdom for today.
Now that we have determined to wait you can be sure that Best Buy and Circuit City will soon be putting that new blu-ray player on sale. If you can not wait and have to have it right now, do yourself a huge favor and comparison shop until you drop. Wal-Mart will price match many items from competitors within a forty-mile radius. Well thats all the grand wisdom for today.
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