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Lots of folks make the mistake of thinking that a warranty is a period of time in which you can get a defective product fixed or replaced. Wrong. A warranty is a promise, made at the time of sale, to the effect that the product conforms to standards, is good for certain functions, etc., (i.e., statements of fact) and it is essentially a contract between the purchaser and the seller - buying a pentax camera from a dealer does not create a contract between the purchaser and pentax. Manufacturers are now including "limited warranty" language in the paperwork inside the package because of a law passed in the United States called the Magnussen-Moss Warranty Enforcement Act. That law obviously only applies in the U.S. and its possessions and territories. It is possible for a seller to be on the hook because of the mfgr's. violation of its "shrink-wrap warranty", where the seller makes a statement of fact to the effect that the mfgr. will honor a warranty, because that constitutes a warranty on the part of the seller. Where the seller makes a statement of fact, directly or indirectly, to the effect that the product has no defects in manufacture and materials, then that seller is on the hook for the repair or replacement. Ordinarily, a person aggrieved by the failure of a seller to honor its warranty can go purchase replacement product at whatever terms are commercially available at the time, and that's the amount of damages that the seller's obligated to cough up.
Here's another thing - periods of time are only related to the remedies available for breach of the warranty. So if a mfgr. says, "two year limited warranty", that two years is the period of time in which they promise (the promise made at the time of sale which constitutes the real warranty) that they will fix or replace a defective product, i.e., a remedy for the breach. That limits them, not the consumer. The limitation on the consumer is a matter of the applicable statute of limitations - where I live, that's four years (measured from the sale, that day being day zero).
Of course, that language in the "shrink-wrap warranty" isn't enforceable everywhere, because (1) there's no "privity of contract" between the mfgr. and the consumer, and (2) the consumer had no way to know what that "limited warranty" said, what the terms and conditions were, at the time he coughed up his money for the product (no "meeting of the minds").
And yet another consideration: the concept of a contract was invented in 16th C. England, and has become an artifact of Western culture. There is no such history in other places, so Asian peoples lack that cultural component. Often, dealing in particular with people from Iran or Korea, one might come to some kind of agreement comprising a contract (in Western terms), put it in writing, signed, witnessed, and notarized. But then the Westerner will be surprised when his trading companion fails to honor the agreement. The logic that applies in those cultures goes something like this: "That contract was a statement of how I felt at that time, my promise was a reflection of my feeling at that time that I intended to do what I said I'd do; but obviously, I can make no statements about the future, or what will happen in the future, because the future does not exist; who knows, we may be dead tomorrow, and then what do our promises mean. No one owns the future, or even his future self, so predictions about future events create no obligation on my part. You must have known all that at the time, so I dealt with you fairly on the day we came to an agreement, because I was honest about my intentions at that time; but since then, I've changed my mind and decided to do something else (like, not pay you the money I owe you). That was then, this is now." Japan and HongKong are more likely to apply Western concepts of commercial law than other countries, particularly when dealing with larger more internationally-oriented companies. But even there, you're taking a risk, and you mustn't expect your local laws and culture to govern what people do who operate in places that are culturally and legally different. (Which is why in my case, I avoid doing business with people from Illinois, Massachussetts, California, and Maryland.)
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