As far as I was concerned - I never bothered about the warranty. If I was offered a longer warranty - at a higher price - I gave it up. I do this because I hardly ever make use of the warranty. Once - a long time ago - in the early nineties, I bought a Polish Neptun 505 TV in a shop. The TV was for half its value. It had only one "but" - it was defective and did not work. The list of listed faults ranged from a faulty power supply to a damaged cathode ray tube. I, however, took a chance. At home I replaced probably 2 transistors in the power supply and the TV then worked for many years. The other faults listed in the specification turned out to be fiction. Of course, I still rummaged around with it later - for example, when there was a need to replace the SECAM board with a SECAM/PAL board, then still replacing the WN duplicator and other "minor" repairs. I would just like to add that I worked at the time as an employee of the electronics service and later as its owner - a total of about 25 years of work - but these are irrelevant details.
