On Thursday, 1 December 2016 11:19:04 UTC, NY wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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It;'s similar to lifetime guarantees where the con is that you have to
have a reciept why ?
If a product is faulty it goers back to the manufacter for replacement NOT
the store, as where you brought it should be irrelivant.

Normally, the receipt is the proof of *when* as well as *where* the device
was bought.

Why does that matter ?


It's irrelevant whether you bought your vacuum cleaner (or
whatever) from Currys, John Lewis or a local one-off private electrical
shop, but if the warranty is for two years, then proving *when* you bought
the vac (and so when the warranty clock starts ticking) is crucial.

Obvioulsy but I;'m talking about lifetime guarantees and guarantees of 50,000 hours for an LED bulb. All, they need to do is have a date stamp on the buld.
50k hours is over 5 years so if yuor 50k hour life bulb dies and the date stamp said it was made in 2015 you should be able to get a replacement from the maker without a recipt


However you are talking about a lifetime warranty, so the concept of "when
the clock starts ticking" is irrelevant. All I can think is that the
manufacturer wants to make sure you've bought the appliance from an
authorised reseller and have not acquired it as a "grey import"

why would that matter they are selling the product, so maybe they should sell it on the grey market.

that has
bypassed the normal distribution channels and may not even be authentic

Well such things a sfake can be sorted unless they truely are a s good as an orginal.

(it
could be a rip-off clone). Also,

So ....

it's a check that the appliance isn't
nicked and bought from a man in a pub, no questions asked :-)

why does that matter the buld has a lifetime guarantee.


When I bought my camera (see 35 mm SLR thread) I had the choice of paying
more from some suppliers for one with a manufacturer's warranty, or less
from other suppliers for one that was a grey import that has the reseller's
warranty but no manufacturer's warranty.

I had that choice in teh 70/80s too.


I took the calculated risk to go
for the grey import, hoping that I'd never need to call on a reseller's
warranty that might not be worth the paper it's written on.

I did the opposite lucky I did as the canon A1 didnlt work properly out of teh box. so it went back to the shop and they ordered a new one.

As it is, the
camera is just coming up to the end of the manufacturer's warranty period
and I've not had to claim, so I made the right decision.

Me too.
I didn;t think the risk of saving £20 or so worth it.