Applianced Protection Agreements Yes? No? Maybe?

This write-up appeared in Yahoo Voices a few years ago and has a lot of good stuff in it, not that I agree with everything it says. (I never do, do I?) There is a lot of confusion surrounding these agreements, and every retailer offers them differently. This article "Appliance Agreements, A Necessary Evil" goes a long way towards dispelling some of the confusion. In a future post, I will weigh in with my views, but many of them largely mirror the author's.