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But that, for example, would not work here in Leicester as our accounts are now zeroed at the end of every financial year, meaning that we cannot build up a surplus to cover future costs.  So have a talk with your financial people as well.

Kees

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Sent: 12 November 2013 17:03
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Subject: Re: repair budget

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You can't buy extended warranties?  Yikes!  In that case I would recommend budgeting for the replacement of an entire system every 2 years (or when the default warranty expires.) @:-)

Craig


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Johannes Helm <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

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> Bonsoir, Sylvie,
>
> this is not a trivial issue.
>
> Besides the natural and common sense reasoning (yours), there is a 
> legal issue, at least at places like the Karolinska, Stockholms 
> Universitet, Universitetet i Oslo (where I am) and so on:
>
> As far as I know, in all Scandinavian countries state institutions are 
> automatically self insurance units. Legally this means that you are 
> not even allowed to purchase any so ever form of insurance. At least 
> in Norway, this means that we are not allowed, formally speaking, to 
> buy any warranty extensions or the like. The original warranty periods 
> - two years at minimum we have to demand (as demanded from us by 
> Norwegian law) - hence cannot be extended by buying extensions, since 
> any extension would, legally speaking, be interpretable as the 
> purchase of an insurance and this is not allowed.
>
> I would therefore recommend you to FIRST speak to a person formally 
> educated in law and employed at the Karolinska and entitled to provide 
> competent answers related to this problem BEFORE trying to purchase 
> anything of the type you mention in your mail.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Johannes (no persons educated in legal matters in the family as far as 
> I can genealogically trace back, which, however, is not very long)
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> > Hi everyone
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> > We are trying to come up with a budget that makes sense. Sigh...
> >
> > How do you estimate the amount of money you will need in the coming 
> > years to fix existing microscopes?
> > Do you apply a percentage of the price? we are trying to estimate 
> > which contract is most cost effective.
> > We will anyway keep paying for 1 service visit per year.
> >
> > Thanks for your input
> >
> > Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards
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> > Sylvie
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