I got my eMachines 6809 about three months ago from BestBuy. They REALLY pushed the service contract on me, and I kept telling them that I was leaning towards getting it from eMachines since it was $100 less and looked to be basically identical. The only upside of getting it from BestBuy was instant turn-around (well, fix time only, no waiting for shipping back and forth.) I told the sales clerk that I'd prefer to get it from BestBuy, but it just wasn't worth an extra $100 to me. They kept trying to say eMachines would not do things like replace a damaged screen, but I had already read all the details of both contracts on-line and knew how they stood up to one another and kept correcting him. Finally he went off to talk to a supervisor and said that they couldn't drop the price of the service contract, but he could drop the price of the computer by $100 as long as I got the service contract at the same time.
Since the eMachines rebate at the time was $100 I was a bit concerned that the dropped price would cause some issues, making eMachines think I had somehow gotten an instant rebate and decide not to honor the mail in rebate. They did return my rebate information, but just saying that I had not properly marked the eMachines 6809 on my sales receipt (NOWHERE does it say to do this in the rebate instructions), so I circled it (was the ONLY thing on the receitp) and sent it all back, which was by then after the original due date, but just three days ago I did finally receive my $100 rebate check from eMachines.
In short (I know, far too late), if the BestBuy clerk will not price match the service contract, see if they will deduct the difference from the notebook instead, and if they still fuss see if there is anyone higher up you can talk to. They REALLY like to sell service contracts, so if you truly appear to be set to get it from eMachines if they don't drop their price they will most likely work something out.
Jim
Since the eMachines rebate at the time was $100 I was a bit concerned that the dropped price would cause some issues, making eMachines think I had somehow gotten an instant rebate and decide not to honor the mail in rebate. They did return my rebate information, but just saying that I had not properly marked the eMachines 6809 on my sales receipt (NOWHERE does it say to do this in the rebate instructions), so I circled it (was the ONLY thing on the receitp) and sent it all back, which was by then after the original due date, but just three days ago I did finally receive my $100 rebate check from eMachines.
In short (I know, far too late), if the BestBuy clerk will not price match the service contract, see if they will deduct the difference from the notebook instead, and if they still fuss see if there is anyone higher up you can talk to. They REALLY like to sell service contracts, so if you truly appear to be set to get it from eMachines if they don't drop their price they will most likely work something out.
Jim