Ext Warranty is good for certain products, and sometimes, it's good if you get a deal where they'll give you a new product off the shelve, and then the company deals w/ the manufacturer. But you have to read the warranty deal, or have someone explain it to you. I was dealing with Circuit City about a mp3 player that my wife bought... basically instead of giving you a gift card for the items purchase price rather than giving you a new product... only problem with that, is if you buy the product on sale then you're getting shafted, because now the mp3 player is back up to reg. price, and circuit city is getting off with paying you less than what the player is really worth, and once they redeem the players regular warranty, then they're going to get another player to sell at full price.