recommendation causes void warranty

k3v

k3v

k3v

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I should have known I would not get sensible replies.....
 
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Bare in mind legaly you contract is with the shop, not the manufacturer. If you discussed what you were going to use the object for with the seller then you can argue it is unfit for purpose.

Give us some more info.
 
Did they recommend or just say that it could be used in a different way?
There is a whole world of difference between being told to do something and being told it's possible to do something.
It's generally common sense that if you buy something and use it in a manner different to how it was sold you are taking a risk, the only possible comeback (in my non legal background) is if you are told explicitly to do it rather than it's a something that is possible.

I've bought a number of DVD drives over the years knowing it's possible to flash them to get them to work in a manner other than which they were sold, and knowing that by flashing them I'm taking a risk that any warranty might be voided (generally to either make them region free or because the same hardware had different firmware versions by different manufacturers - HP for example I think used to use their own firmware to rebrand Lite-on drives).
 
His external drive was trampled by a herd of elephants wearing pink fishing waders whilst he was pleasuring an anteater in a nearby tent made out of the skin of 2,000 welsh virgins.

I tried and was more wrong, do I win £5?

Back on topic, it's hardly a recommendation - it's additional information regarding a product. If you buy it and start attacking it with a screwdriver and it breaks that's your lookout. There's threads on here about Jailbreaking an iPhone, or overclocking a CPU, do you think I could hold OcUK accountable if I brick my iPhone/melt my CPU because of information given out on a public forum?

Grip (get a).

:)
 
It does seem slightly shady when one of the selling points of the item being advertised was "You can remove the drive from the enclosure and have the same internal one that we sell for more", without actually pointing out that by doing that completely voids any warranty.

But it's similar to having prices in BIG letters without VAT, unless the amount you are saving is being quoted, in which case the saving after VAT suddenly becomes the big font. :)
 
Werewolf said:
It's generally common sense that if you buy something and use it in a manner different to how it was sold you are taking a risk,
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There's no such thing as common sense anymore, there's only "you didn't say not to do that, I am now suing you."
 
I'm not daft, I realised that undoing that little screw may cause problems [if the warranty was to be used]. Im dissapointed more than anything that common sense cannot prevail and I cannot get a replacement for using something in a way that was pretty much recommended by the seller.
I'm also gald the certain people can see my point of view.
 
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k3v said:
I'm not daft, I realised that undoing that little screw may cause problems. Im dissapointed more than anything that common sense cannot prevail and I cannot get a replacement for using something in a way that was pretty much recommended by the seller.
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Or keep your mouth shut in the first place, put it back in the enclosure and return it to the shop. Oops too late!
 
How did common sense not prevail when you removed the warranty void stickers to get into the unit, and still thought your warranty was still valid?
 
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