Should 2nd. Buyer Receive Guarantee ?

Extended warranties are a good example of how it is a matter of $$$$. If you are willing to pay more, what is basically an insurance company will guarantee the product for a longer period. I never buy the extended warranties. The very few items I have paid for repairs over the years is easily not more than what I would have paid in advance for an extended warranty.

A good friend of mine feels differently, but he is a heavy user. He had a high end VCR break on him after 4.5 years of use. He had extended the warranty twice to 5 years. The model was discontinued and they could not get the part for it, so they gave him a brand new current model for a replacement.

Elizabeth has a good point. My experience is that a lot of things like CD Players, Computers, Etc, break right away if they are going to break, so if you pick up one used that is a couple years old, that has worked fine, it will continue to do so.

BTW - Conrad Johnson does provide a transferable warrantee on their Premier products (at least for the 12 and 17LS) from the original owner to subsequent owners. There are a few conditions on this, but it appears as though they will honor the warrantee as long as they are notified of the transfer(s).