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Old 12-15-2010, 04:42 AM  
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Originally Posted by Adraco View Post
Many years ago I worked summer for a TV store owned by Best Buy. The shop gets to keep around 46% of the warranty amount, or at least that was the number back then. And if you sold warranties amounting to a total of $1800 per month, you got yourself a nice first level bonus of $100, then at $2500 you got another $100 bonus and aftrer a certain amount you got yourself a percentage of everything over the set amount.

This is where a shop today is making it's money.
yup, this is pure profit to them. The other high mark up items are the cables and other accessories, that is why they try and upsell you I very rarely buy extended, did on one of my cars, worked out well, because of little things, also on a built in dishwasher, with in home service
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