Just bought a Bradley BT1S1 at Cabela's and was offered an service plan (I believe it was for 2 years), for $30. I turned it down at the time. Is this possibly something I should actually consider? Or is this OBS a pretty solid unit?
You don't need it. Not with the customer service you get from Bradley. These things are bullet proof. Sometimes there are afew bugs to work out at first but once done its golden. I would have so kicked myself for paying the extra money.
Thats good to hear! I was looking at a Masterbuilt digital unit, but after comparing the quality and over all "feel" of the Bradley to the Masterbuilt I just simply had to go with the Bradley unit. Plus having the auto feed is such a huge plus.
I have no knowlegde of the masterbuilts, but I know as soon as I saw the Bradleys that they werefor me. I wasn't even looking for a smoker cause my plywood homebuilt was fine for me. But when I heard about the Bradleys and googled them that was it I had to have one. But for me they were out of my price range till our big chain grocery store had them in their catalog for points and I had enouh the get it free. But looking back to what I know now I would have paid the money to get one. I think of the old plywood one fondly but remember also that the only time I used it was for smoking salmon and that was 2 or 3 times a year. Now I have had mine for about 9 months and have smoked so much different stuff I have to schedule time to smoke salmon. Of course getting on to this forum was a real bad thing cause just when you think there is nothing left to smoke these guys come up with a whole new dimesion of possiblities.
Extended service plans are designed to make money for the people who sell them.
If they thought it was to your benefit (and not theirs) they wouldn't be selling them.
Think... if you bought the ESP for everything you buy that offered one...
by the time you really needed one, you would have saved more than enough cash to "self-insure".
And, as Murphy's law would have it, the ESP you needed would have expired or "fine-printed" itself out of usefulness anyway.
ESPs are insurance policies.
Only insure the things you can't afford to "self-insure" (house/life), and you'll save a bundle in the long run.
In the specific case of the Bradley - I've never heard anyone complain that they don't stand behind their product.
Like Quarlow (sorta) said - $30 will buy a lot of MEAT ;D
Hal I love the way you defined what I said to the T, I never knew I was that articulate. ;D ;D
Q, I was just extrapolating a bit... I think "YOU DON'T NEED IT" was VERY articulate!
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SW35 - I didn't mean to get on a rant, but I've paid a LOT of "stupid tax" in my time...
Anyhow... Ya done good.
;D ;D