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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
It's one thing to retail merchandise all over the place. The manufacturer is the one who is going to be stuck with the angry consumer in Norway who expects the Mexican manufacturer to comply with a five year warranty (and how exactly do they go about enforcing it anyway .... declare war against the country of manufacture??), but it's a whole other problem to be the manufacturer and sell the product worldwide ... because then you really are on the hook.
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It isn't as simple as that though.
At least in the UK, if an item is not fit for purpose, or dies before a reasonable expectation of its lifespan, the sale of goods act places the burden on the retailer to make good, not the manufacturer. As a purchaser, the only contract you have entered into is with the retailer, you haven't made any agreements with the manufacturer.
So Amazon already have to have all the lawyers in place to deal with people whose iPods break after a month, and so on.