Originally Posted by
soitgoes
Actually, AmEx's terms will provide coverage extension for extended warranties of five years or less--see post #2 and/or the PDF link I posted. For computers, the extended warranty has to be provided by the manufacturer, which AppleCare is.
I agree completely with this. But the specific extension is only of the base warranty, after the extended warranty is expired:
If you purchase an additional service contract or extended warranty with a product which is otherwise eligible under the Buyer's Assurance Plan, and the combined coverage provided by both the original manufacturer’s warranty and the purchased service contract does not exceed five years, then the product is eligible for coverage under the Buyer's Assurance Plan. The Buyer's Assurance Plan will extend the warranty time period and mirror coverage of the original manufacturers' warranty up to one additional year after both the original manufacturer’s warranty and the purchased service contract have expired.
So either the Platinum or the Centurion will only get one year extended (mirroring the coverage of the original manufacturer's warranty). The centurion card will not get 3 additional years, as the policy is to mirror the original term with a max duration of 3 years. Since the original warranty is one year that is what you'll get extended, after the original warranty and the AppleCare have both expired. If the original warranty were for 3 years and then AppleCare was another 2 years (instead of 1 + 2) then the AmEx extension would be 3 years for Centurions and 1 year for Platinums, mirroring the original warranty. But the original warranty, which is what AmEx mirrors, is only one year.