Here are a couple of reasonable summaries of the UK law:
For transactions before 1st Oct 2015 the Sale of Goods act would apply:
For ones after, the Consumer Rights Act:
Note that both include words to the effect: "Your rights are against the retailer (the company that sold you the product) not the manufacturer, and so you must make any claim against the retailer."
No one knows exactly.
That's how reputable merchants sell yes.
Obviously. Places like currys sell extended warremties via 3rd party componies if a TV goes back to currys they send it on the the 3rd party company.
Exactly.
depending on what they are selling of course.
Yes Obviously.
Who's the 3rd party ? And yuo still have to abide by the T&Cs of teh product and the comnpany which is why htye put teh viuod if removed stickers on things.
So why send a product back to apple via applecare when you can get PC woprld to sort it ?
and that's the con. If yuor retailer is selling lifetime bulbs why does it matter when you brought them ?
Think it's up to you to prove it was bought legitimately. Normally, by a receipt or registration.
You expect a gift to have a warranty?
Not sure explaining further would help you understand.
Which contract with the customer did VW breach?
From the date you purchase it.
BTW, how could you prove how many hours anything has been used?
Really? Most of these extended warranties are operated by insurance companies.
If you bought a Sony TV from Currys, then Sony would be a 3rd party.
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)
What is the definition of "lifetime"?
Wrong, with warranties.
Nope. The only real downside with lifetime warranties is that they are only enforceable while ever the manufacturer is still around.
The term seems at least in the USA to be interpreted in many ways, none of which are what one would expect 'lifetime' to mean. In the UK I can find almost no reference to 'lifetime guarantee' as a legal term with a precise meaning: I conclude it has no legal meaning.
More fool one.
And that means that the normal interpretation of that term applies.
More fool you. It always does.
Oh look. Wodney has found yet another name.
Wiring a socket in a bathroom within the allotted areas could get you gaol time.
In that sense it is quite safe to say it is illegal, in much the same way making a manoeuvre in a car that could lead to a death could also be described as "illegal".
If you saw the wiring in other EU countries I really don't think so.
Really?
if it results in someone's death, it might well.
Of course it does.
Good luck with that.
Yes that's thr problem isn't it, it;s the store that garentees the product ratherthan the manufactorer.
Why not ?
So insurance companies aren't 3rd party companies 1st party being the shop the 2nd the manufacter what's next ?
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.
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