I'll give you a clue to the scopes I purchase......LEUPOLD!So you pay 1500 for the warranty and 1500 for the glass and end up with overpriced vortex stuff.
None of the high end brands have an unconditional lifetime warranty for a reason. If they did people would be driving trucks over them after the tiniest scratch trying to claim a new one. And a 4000dollar spotting scope would be 8000.