Talk:Warranty/Archives/2011

Guarantee Redirect

A guarantee is not the same as a warranty.

A person may warrant that information he says is true, and if it is not true, then he is liable for damages caused from others relying on it being true. The person's statement is a warranty.

A person may guarantee that another person will perform an obligation, and if that other person does not perform the obligation, he is liable to perform that obligation (e.g. pay money), or to pay damages resulting from non-performance by the other person. The person giving the guarantee is called the guarantor.

In the case of manufactured goods, the manufacturer can give a guarantee that seller of the goods will replace or refund the goods if they don't perform to the terms of the guarantee, and the seller of the goods can give a warranty that the goods will perform to some standard. I've heard there were some problems with enforcement of warranties and guarantees due to lack of privity of contract, but I can't see how this problem cannot be resolved -- the manufacterer is, in effect, holding out an offer to the whole world, that any buyers who buy the goods from any sellers will benefit from the terms of the offer, and the buyers accept the contract by buying the goods.

I'm not sure why the spellings differ at the end of the word or even if I have the right understanding of all this.

But there should be a separate article on financial guarantees, which are used in banking and finance to provide a further avenue for recovery of money when the principal borrower defaults. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.89.10.126 (talk) 08:42, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

What exactly is a lifetime warranty?

The term shows up everywhere, but it's not clear what it means in general. Is there an accepted legal meaning for a lifetime warranty? (and is it 'the lifetime of the article', or 'the lifetime of the owner'? njh 23:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC) [a lifetime warranty should be good for the buyer's lifetime; "lifetime" ties to life of a product would beg the question of what the life is -- if it fails in 12 months was that the product's life? jeisenberg]

Lifetime warranty is being misused by many manufacturers and brand specially in the computer and technology business where the life of a product is very short. No brand offering lifetime warranty in their web sites clearly give a definition of what is the actual meaning of the term "lifetime warranty ". According to me it basically means the life of the product, if the product is no more being manufactured then the warranty is over. As such if in Nov 2006 a customer buys DDR1 Memory Module then the expected warranty period will not last 6 months also as DDR2 will become mainstay and DDR1 Production would be no more.

transfer of warranty

could someone expound on how warranty transfer works, it's legal implications, etc. for second hand items. -- Bubbachuck (talk) 21:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Heh, I actually came to this page hoping for some clue as to that exact question. I know some companies don't disallow it (NEC, for example) whereas other companies write warranties specifically stating that it only applies to the original purchaser; Microsoft for the Xbox360, for example here...as I'm discovering to my dismay, on the phone with customer service right now. However, even their warranty mentions "[h]owever, some jurisdictions extend the protection of implied warranties to subsequent consumers and therefore this limitation may not apply to you." So, likely part of the reason for a lack of reply to your question is that the answer varies based on where you reside and the precise terms of the actual warranty itself. Phil Urich (talk) 22:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Please define "inver quera."

Thanks. 67.243.1.21 (talk) 19:53, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Deleted. Like you, I could not find a definition of the term anywhere. 842U (talk) 15:10, 9 February 2010 (UTC)