mynameisbob84 said:Misono said:Timing is key too. I know that sales staff in electronics places have quotas to meet for selling the extended warranties. Managed to get 25% off a 50 inch TV by saying I'd take out the warranty. UK law gives you 45 days to cancel these, so after I'd done it and signed the paperwork, just cancelled the policy.
This strikes me as being a bit of a shitty thing to do and not a million miles away from "paying" a model for a show with Paypal and then cancelling it after the fact.
It's just a way of using laws to gain an advantage. In this case, you hurt the company financially, not necessarily the employee. Doesn't always work. I wouldn't normally buy an extended warranty anyway, so if the worker was on commission for those, then the whole scenario would make no difference at all for him.