just received my 7800xt hellhound and removed this sticker without realising it would void my warranty...

[andybird123]

afaik they are still enforcable here but even if you find a law to use against them they will find a way to blame CID for whatever return you try

Your contract is with the retailer, so the retailer would have to prove that removing the sticker caused the fault. The manufacturer denying a repair doesn't remove your statutory rights, you would just need to get an independent PC repair shop to state that the card has failed due to a manufacturing fault and nothing to do with a sticker being removed.

If there's evidence you removed the sticker because you modified the card then you'd be out of luck, but if a sticker gets damaged in and of itself isn't evidence the card was damaged by user.

In the OP's case, the sticker isn't somewhere that shows that the card had to have been modified in order to be removed, so the fact that it was removed wouldn't be grounds for the retailer to deny a claim.

It's also a requirement by law that you provide evidence that the product is faulty due to manufacture, to obtain that evidence you may well have to get someone to open up the item to check, so a warranty void sticker would prevent you obtaining the evidence you need, so that would also not be enforceable because the only reason the item was opened up was to check for the source of damage.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Its a bit like manufacturers who simultaneously claim their products are water resistant but fill their devices with finicky moisture sensors which go off if you so much as breathe on them to try and wriggle out of servicing devices they sell.