whisky-dave wrote
John Rumm wrote
whisky-dave wrote
John Rumm wrote

It's a con that you've fallen for as most people have to.

There is a fairly simple concept in law, that you can't
bind a third party to the terms of a contract that they
have not signed and have not even seen.

Who's the 3rd party ?

If you bought a Sony TV from Currys, then Sony would be a 3rd party.

No they wouldn't

In his situation, they are.

So why send a product back to apple via applecare
when you can get PC woprld to sort it ?

Because PC world and apple will agree that apple will
handle all returns etc. Without that agreement the
responsibility would remain with PC world, and apple
would be within their rights to tell you to go take a hike.

(however apple don't work like that, and tend to dislike
resellers and distributors unless they add significant value)

yuo can buty applecare cheaper than apple sells it.
You can go to anothe rcompany to buy applecare
and teh computer is still covered by apple.