These things are especially evil in Australia where consumer protections are stronger and usually exceed the stated warranty.

I've had this conversation many times:

"Can I interest you in an extended warranty with that?"

"No thanks, it's no better than consumer protection"

"Fair enough. Had to ask"

When i worked for office Max, back when they still existed, they told us to always always always push the "extended warranty"...

$4.00 on a $15.00 calculator... Even if you're making minimum wage, the time spent dicking around with the warranty crap, you could have bought a better calculator when the first broke.

These laptop fans I bought a while back had a warranty of 60 days. At that stage I wonder why even bother. They worked just fine for years, though.