Product Warranties and Laws
Comments debate the enforcement of product warranties, skepticism about companies honoring them, and comparisons of consumer protection laws across regions like the EU, US, UK, and Australia.
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that... sounds too good to be true. could you provide any references on what the actual consequences of this warranty are?
Good luck getting the warranty honoured ;)
Something something EU consumer protection law, stuff needs 2 year warranty, and if it breaks in that time you either have to replace or refund the customers. Doubly so if you knew the product wouldn't last 2 years.
iirc they have a life warranty, that kind of addresses your concern.
what? noIts really simple, mandate sane warranty period, like in EU.
They do, it's called the "warranty period". :-)
This is pretty standard language for most warranties. Apple used to make the same claim, although I'm not sure if they still do.
for sure, and it is a minimum. Not sure how it works exactly, but if a device fails prematurely (within some reasonably determined expected lifetime) due to manufacturing errors you can claim warrant for longer. You might need legal counsel to actually get it though.
"Voids the warranty" comes to mind.
Many EU countries have protections stronger than this. Eg after 2 years you might have a right to compensation proportional to expected product life.