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camp guy · 05-03-2013, 04:03 PM

In today's economy, dealers and suppliers are pushing users to have maintenance contracts as a way of establishing a revenue stream for them during these tough times. Interestingly enough, if your systems holds together and performs they way it is supposed to, you will feel that you paid for somekthing your didn't need, BUT, if the reverse is the case, and your systems has problems, you may be very happy to have the contract. ALSO, be careful about mixing your homeowners do-it-yourself- skills with work you want, or need to have done, by the outsider provider. All too often, the favorite "out" for a contractor is to tell you that the parts you may have provided, or the service you performed as a homeowner, didn't meet the factory specs. After several years of going back and forth with a heating company, I finally buckled and took the contract, but I tried to make it very, very clear to them that as far as I was concerned, ANY problems from that day forward were theirs to correct. So far, so good, with annual check-ups and service.

I am sure others will have opinions, but I sleep well at night knowing the company is just a phone call away - anytime.

05-03-2013, 04:03 PM	#3
camp guy Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: formerly Winter Harbor, still Wolfeboro Posts: 1,224 Thanks: 317 Thanked 560 Times in 310 Posts	Maintenance contract In today's economy, dealers and suppliers are pushing users to have maintenance contracts as a way of establishing a revenue stream for them during these tough times. Interestingly enough, if your systems holds together and performs they way it is supposed to, you will feel that you paid for somekthing your didn't need, BUT, if the reverse is the case, and your systems has problems, you may be very happy to have the contract. ALSO, be careful about mixing your homeowners do-it-yourself- skills with work you want, or need to have done, by the outsider provider. All too often, the favorite "out" for a contractor is to tell you that the parts you may have provided, or the service you performed as a homeowner, didn't meet the factory specs. After several years of going back and forth with a heating company, I finally buckled and took the contract, but I tried to make it very, very clear to them that as far as I was concerned, ANY problems from that day forward were theirs to correct. So far, so good, with annual check-ups and service. I am sure others will have opinions, but I sleep well at night knowing the company is just a phone call away - anytime.