Legality of a 90 day warranty

Regardless of where it was bought, whether it was consumer or B2B, etc. etc. I think the answer to the basic question of 'is it legal to only provide a 90 day warranty?' is yes. I'm pretty sure it's legal to provide no warranty at all, as a warranty is effectively an add-on insurance product that is entirely discretionary/optional to be offered (or indeed purchased)
 
MassiveJim said:
was for a customer :)
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Then it would be a B2B transaction, regardless of whether you bought it using your personal account, and so any consumer rights wouldn't apply. I believe SOGA still applies in that the goods must be of satisfactory quality, so you might have an argument there, but it's nowhere near as clear cut as a B2C transaction.
 
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Haggisman said:
Then it would be a B2B transaction, regardless of whether you bought it using your personal account, and so any consumer rights wouldn't apply. I believe SOGA still applies in that the goods must be of satisfactory quality, so you might have an argument there, but it's nowhere near as clear cut as a B2C transaction.
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thank you :)
 
There is no legal rights to a warranty, its just a goodwill gesture, don't get a warranty confused with consumer rights.

Problem you have though is you have no consumer rights as you bought it for work Your contract is B2B so you are bound by any terms they offer if any at all.

That doesn't mean you don't have contract law on your side though, as even with a B2B contract an item still needs to be of satisfactory quality.

Only problem is enforcing it through a court, but even a consumer can have that problem if the seller says the warranty has expired.
 
I hope you get this sorted out but I reckon it's gonna fall on your toes tbh.
If you've repaired this as a business/work then your customer likely has cause to claim from you.

Refund the cust or replace screen FoC I think would be your options.

Don't apple have specific authorised repair places? Is it like an accreditation and only then will they sell you parts?
Or is it the usual apple jack up everything and no 3rd party anything allowed
 
90 days warranty just happens to be what Apple offer for parts used in an official repair. I'm guessing this seller is copying that time frame (as it's ofc 3rd party/end hand parts).
platinum87 said:
From what i've gleamed, you cannot buy a legit replacement screen for a macbook, apple do not sell macbook screens.
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~Divine~Wind~ said:
Don't apple have specific authorised repair places? Is it like an accreditation and only then will they sell you parts?
Or is it the usual apple jack up everything and no 3rd party anything allowed
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Only time someone is allowed to buy parts direct from an official place is if they're doing the new self service repair scheme. They'd only let you order parts for machines you have serials for too.
 
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~Divine~Wind~ said:
I hope you get this sorted out but I reckon it's gonna fall on your toes tbh.
If you've repaired this as a business/work then your customer likely has cause to claim from you.

Refund the cust or replace screen FoC I think would be your options.

Don't apple have specific authorised repair places? Is it like an accreditation and only then will they sell you parts?
Or is it the usual apple jack up everything and no 3rd party anything allowed
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You have to be apple certified/registered/authorised whatever they call it to get your hands on genuine parts.
But from what I gather on the net its not worth doing the margin on a phone repair for example (according to a YouTuber that signed up to the program) left them around $8 profit margin.
Essentially apple launched the program to show people that they were allowing 3rd parties access to their parts due to a lot of noise surrounding the right to repair bill, but the reality was they just made the program too unattractive for any 3rd party repairer to want to take part. (Usual apple shenanigans)

In terms of repairing apple hardware as a 3rd party we have to rely on non genuine and used parts, having looked on ebay since starting this thread, it appears that most lcd sellers on ebay are offering only 90 days warranty (on all lcds) some offering only 30 days. So it isn't/ wasnt unique to this seller.
 
Still your prerogative, on inspection of the laptop whose screen 'failed', determine if screen really failed, or product mal-treated(again ?) , or secondary issue caused failure,
and owner may have to pay for those analysis costs, and no refund, if screen was not cause,
 
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