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by fweespeech 3995 days ago
> tl;dr: "out of warranty" is not necessarily the end of the story, although I don't know about the US.

In the US, there is no "statute" for contract of sale like you have in the UK. Its entirely what is written by the seller [which is the warranty], so yes, it is the end of the story :P

Generally, if its nearly an immediate loss/failure, you can do something more but that is about the only situation. Months/years later its whatever the merchant & manufacturer stipulated.

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> In the US, there is no "statute" for contract of sale like you have in the UK.

Depends on the specific US jurisdiction and the particular kind of sale, but this is often false. See, most notably, the Uniform Commercial Code. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code

>Its[sic] entirely what is written by the seller [which is the warranty], so yes, it is the end of the story :P

It's not entirely about what the seller wrote. It's primarily about the representations the seller made (written or otherwise) about the product and whether the product doesn't meet those representations.