"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Friday, 2 December 2016 17:51:38 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 1 December 2016 17:49:50 UTC, John Rumm wrote:
On 01/12/2016 17:06, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 1 December 2016 11:33:43 UTC, charles wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 1 December 2016 00:30:33 UTC, Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Tim Watts
wrote:
On 30/11/16 18:00, charles wrote:
I have that problem in a shower room. To wire in permanently
means
removing a factory fitted, moulded on plug. Doing that negates
the
guarantee,


I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

Can't see why it would if the plug is correctly fitted.

Isnt it simialr to a sticker falling off saying "warrenty void if
removed". All it means is the company refused to guarentee
something
that
could have been '****ed' with and then put back together so it's
not
noticable.

I;'m not saying they are right to claim this it';s just what they
say.

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.

If a product is faulty it goes back to the store from which you
bought
it.
You have no contract with the manufacturer.

A friend had a canon camecoder 500i that was sent back to canon
under
guarantee
NOT to the store.

That may well be the case in that situation.

However, the legal responsibility belongs to the merchant it was
bought
from.

How does a merchant know how long any product will last ?

They dont.

They do have some idea.

Only once they have been selling them for a while and so
know what the warranty claim rate has turned out to be.

They still have a legal obligation to repair or replace it if it
fails within a reasonable time for that particular type of item.

And who sets that time ?

Ultimately the legal system used if the manufacturer refuses to honour
the warranty claim. Usually the small claims system in many jurisdictions.

So laptop is expected to last rather longer than say a pair of flip
flops.

So flip flops don;t have a warrenty is that it ?

Corse they have a warranty. Its just not as long as a laptop has.

If a manufactuer guarantees a product for life then
why should they merchant support it for life ?

Because when something is guaranteed for life by the manufacturer,
the merchant can claim off the manufacturer when they get a
customer returning a failed product that has a lifetime guarantee.

So which products have a lifetime guarantee ?

That varys. At one time some floppy disks had one and a mate
of mine used to save up the ones that had failed, take them to
a trade show and get the goon in the fancy clothes fronting
the manufacturers booth to replace the failed ones.

It's a con that you've fallen for

Nope.

as most people have to.

Wrong, as always.