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How Warranties Work: Who is Responsible? The Installer? The Shipper?
< !DOCTYPE html> Installers and/or Contractors Remember that the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act only governs warranties on “tangible personal property.” Not only does it not cover property like land ownership, it also does not cover warranties for services. Not all states…
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How Warranties Work: Who is Responsible? The Seller or the Manufacturer?
< !DOCTYPE html> I mentioned a scenario in the first warranty post where customer Oswald had two businesses fighting over who didn’t have to honor the warranty on his damaged floor. I’ve also written about a situation where a retailer…
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How Warranties Work: Used and “As Is” Sales
< !DOCTYPE html> The Warranty Killer Things may be sold “as is” in many states. No warranty is being offered, and the statement “as is,” which tells the customer that the product is definitely in less than the best condition,…
How Warranties Work: The Caveats (the “bewares”)
< !DOCTYPE html> From the Latin phrase “caveat emptor,” meaning “Let the buyer beware,” specifically of hidden things, what we would call the fine print, caveats still exist with warranties. There is the already discussed issue of transfer of ownership.…
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How Warranties Work: The Limited Warranty
< !DOCTYPE html> As I wrote in a previous segment, a manufacturer may limit the length of implied warranties to the duration of the written warranty. This renders the warranty a Limited Warranty A limited warranty is a warranty with…
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How Warranties Work: Basic Types of Warranties – Full and Extended Warranties
< !DOCTYPE html> Full Warranties A full warranty is the golden ticket in warranty land, and probably as rare of a thing to find too. I’ve found it on things like some Craftsman tools and Wüsthof knives. When you spend…
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How Warranties Work: Basic Types of Warranties – Implied part b
< !DOCTYPE html> The Implied Warranty of Fitness for a Particular Purpose I talked about one kind of Implied Warranty in the previous post. This is the other kind. Rather than affirming the basic notion that “Box cutters will cut…
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How Warranties Work: Basic Types of Warranties – Implied Warranty
< !DOCTYPE html> The Implied Warranty Our situation with implied warranties is better than my wink and nudge remark in the previous post might have … uh, “implied”. An implied warranty is an unwritten, also unspoken, but automatic promise that…
How Warranties Work: Basic Types of Warranties – Express Warranties
< !DOCTYPE html> There are two basic kinds of warranties, express and implied, both of which provide remedies to a customer if their product is found to be defective. Before I go into the differences let me clarify what these…
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