On Sunday, October 6, 2013 3:54:09 PM UTC-4, Oren wrote:
What you miss; obviously, is that plug-in protectors DO WORK.

Quite the contrary. They work ... on one type of surge that is typically not destructive. And then I also added perspective - the numbers. A 'whole house' protector does maybe 99.5% of the protection. Leaving a power strip protector to add maybe another 0.2% protection.

Big buck, plug-in protector warranty promotes a myth. Those warranties are so full of exemptions as to not be honored. Many have filed claims to learn that reality the hard way. Why does it hype a big buck warranty? They are selling to the naive who assume a big warranty means a better product.. Reality from the free market: products hyping a biggest warranty are usually inferior. Since GM cars have a best warranty, then GM cars must be superior to Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai? Nonsense.

Warranties are hyped to deceive the naive. A more honest answer says where hundreds of thousands of joules are harmlessly absorbed. Plug-in protectors ignore that question since it does not protect from that type of surge.. Will not say how their near zero joules make destructive surges (hundreds of thousands of joules) irrelevant.

Well they do admit to many exemptions so that warranty is not honored. But that is in fine print that naive consumers never read - until they learn about that warranty the hard way. Even the warranty works - to increase sales.