BLACK MAMBA2 Warranty

Aloha from your meister:
  I have been asked to address the issue of product     
 warranty... Thanks for the many e-mails especially  
 those that have concerns with purchasing THIS M2  
 product as well as ANY product that is 'brought into
the USA' for resale... 
            If you purchase a video camcorder at your local photo     
    store or discount electronics store you will see a very
'Finely' worded document that informs you of the 
         conditions which would VOID any guaranty work to be 
         performed by either the manufacturer or his authorized 
repair shops scattered around the country. 

        The exclusions are so contrived that basically you are 
          going to have to have a DOA (dead on arrival) product 
for any warranty work to qualify. 
           Even at that the manufacturer has such language that it 
               will be up to THEIR interpretation and not you the owner 
              as to what constitutes ANY warranty work to be perform 
            & what cost You will bear. MY short answer for all this 
is quite simple... 
             do Not rely at all on any implied or written guarantee.... 
        simply take your product's ID, serial numbers, make, 
               model & brand and submit them to your 'Home Owners',
automobile and / or business insurance policy.  

           Please remember one salient Fact... The cost of repair 
              NORMALLY exceeds the cost of replacement . It does 
               not take rocket science here to be prepared here & take 
              matters into your own hands & not to rely on the "good 
          will' & the generous good wishes of these monolithic
organizations...
         I have In Boxes full of nightmare stories of certain
                'understandings' going South; of Big Name electronics 
                   & Big name stores & chains. On the matter of extended 
                      warranty... they have for the most part have proven to be 
                  a FURTHER waste of money as they have consistently 
                    shown to be not 'worth the paper they are printed on' &   
                      that is a quote from hundreds of fellow camcorder            
                        owners that have fallen for the extended warranty scams.  

                   Canon said many years ago at a convention that if they
                felt an extended period of time was warranted... they
             would include it.  JVC it was not necessary.  Sharp 
                  & Sony said to the effect it would add undue expense 
                    that their customers had not seem fit to addressed so it 
      was a non issue to them and their customers.  
And on & on...

           I wish I had better news in this department but at
                  least you have been given warnings that many do not
           get at all. BTW, the cost many times of adding a 
            camcorder to a home owner's policy is.... ZERO !

         Extended warranties can run into the hundreds.