'hobbyman II' said:
just to mention
under EU law the minimum guarantee period is 2 years, Britain signed up to the agreement, but as usual the Gubmint has been dragging its heels and ignoring complaints/allowing companies to just offer 1 year, but legally you have a two year guarantee, just waiting for someone to bring it to the EU`s attention, it`s gonna cost some firms big time if the EU make their judgement retrospective, just think of all those folk that could claim if they did
a good so me ps3 will be under warranty, i can play it again (stupid 2.70 update)
Sony actually fixed mine knowingly out of warranty, which was pretty nice. But officially it's only a 1 year warranty, though it probably shound be 2.
kind of like what nintendo did for me. oh, wait, no they refused to fix my wii while it was stilll under warranty even though i hadn't done anything to void it.
I would like to point out here, that there's an EU directive regarding (bad translation follows) "error responsibility" and expected life time for a product. This supercedes any warranty and basically means, that if a device has a manufacturing flaw, which presents itself during the expected lifetime of the device or item, the reseller/manufacturer/importer (depends) has to fix/replace it or refund its current value. Expected lifetimes for different items are enumerated in the directive. I got my 4 year old Acer laptop refunded because of this when its motherboard broke down, albeit after 1.5 years of rope tugging
Oh, and the responsibility to show its NOT a manufacturing flaw is on the selling side, of course.