Comments on: "Warranty void if removed" http://valdodge.com/2008/11/04/warranty-void-if-removed/ Random Wanderings and Wonderings Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amin b http://valdodge.com/2008/11/04/warranty-void-if-removed/#comment-106367 amin b Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:43:47 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/11/04/warranty-void-if-removed/#comment-106367 I suppose one could always slit the bottom of the static bag and carefully <i>extract</i> the drive so as to leave the warranty label intact. (without 'removing' anything, just in case) But then what if they mean 'removed from the bag'? Worse, if they mean <a href="http://valdodge.com/2008/05/27/wasteful-packaging-2/" rel="nofollow">'removed from the box'</a>, then it's too late anyway. The last time I bought a hard drive, the warranty was from the date of manufacture! I noticed this as I belatedly installed the drive just days before the warranty's expiry. If they don't want to provide a warranty then they just shouldn't. And anyway what is stopping them from making the warranty expire x number of days from the date of <i>design</i>. Or first business proposal. Or maybe when the manufacturing line was brought on line... Maybe you could just leave it in the bag, make some slits for the connectors, and fashion some sort of air-injection cooling system to keep things cool. Better safe than sorry. I suppose one could always slit the bottom of the static bag and carefully extract the drive so as to leave the warranty label intact. (without ‘removing’ anything, just in case)

But then what if they mean ‘removed from the bag’?

Worse, if they mean ‘removed from the box’, then it’s too late anyway.

The last time I bought a hard drive, the warranty was from the date of manufacture! I noticed this as I belatedly installed the drive just days before the warranty’s expiry.

If they don’t want to provide a warranty then they just shouldn’t.

And anyway what is stopping them from making the warranty expire x number of days from the date of design. Or first business proposal. Or maybe when the manufacturing line was brought on line…

Maybe you could just leave it in the bag, make some slits for the connectors, and fashion some sort of air-injection cooling system to keep things cool. Better safe than sorry.

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