{"id":4628,"date":"2020-10-03T18:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2020-10-03T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T23:08:31","slug":"warranty-not-void-if-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Warranty Not Void If Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Occasionally, bureaucracy gets it right. But getting the word out is often another matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve all seen devices with those &#8220;WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED&#8221; stickers. We may be curious about what&#8217;s inside that Xbox or Roomba, but breaking the manufacturer&#8217;s seal would void the warranty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, it turns out that, in the U.S. at least, those stickers not only have no legal force &#8212; but are themselves illegal. Manufacturers, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/press-releases\/2018\/04\/ftc-staff-warns-companies-it-illegal-condition-warranty-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 ruling<\/a> by the Federal Trade Commission, shall not make warranty coverage contingent on using branded parts or service. Since one of the specific warnings in the press release refers to &#8220;the warranty seal,&#8221; it is implied that this extends to manufacturer warnings that opening the cover will void the warranty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So go ahead &#8212; do that DIY repair. (It&#8217;s better for the manufacturer than RMA&#8217;ing it, and better for the environment than throwing it out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out those pesky &#8220;Warranty Void If Removed&#8221; stickers &#8230; are illegal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=4628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,217,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currentevents","category-digitalcitizenship","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}