About to begin a battle with Apple. A cautionary tale?

[scottness]

I'm aged 33 and I already have enough money never to have to work again...

Careful... I used to think the same thing until October 2008. If you really have that kind of money, you know what I'm talking about.

so I'm really just pursuing this out of principle so I may as well give it a go for the sake of seeing where it ends up.

You still lose time that you'll never get back, all for "principle". I'd opt to spend my time on a more lasting and worthy cause. Spinning your wheels on something like this is a little petty, don't you think?

 

[tomjdavies]

Being 33 and having enough money to never have to work again.... surely you have better things to do than pursue a petty claim.

Then again, who am I to judge.

 

[acfusion29]

Typical idiotic US reply.

Read up on the UK Sale of Goods Act, which covers things like this

First of all, don't insult me.

Secondly, I'm not from the US. If your smart ass knew where Toronto was, you'd know it's in Canada.

Now who's the idiot? Learn your geography.

No, you listen.

The guy is not saying he is suing Apple, he is simply looking to take them to a Small Claims Court using the UK's Sale Of Goods Act.

Typically, when anyone from the US hears the word "court" they imagine court cases, suing, etc ... which is of course the case in a country where someone cam try to sue McDonalds for making them fat. I rest my case on that point.

You have no idea what you are talking about, and as much as you or any other user from the US/Canada wants to rant to the contrary, your knowledge or your laws means the square root of f**k all ... the UK has this law, and belittling this guy by using the laws of your country is wrong.

The only mistake this bloke made was joining and posting his question on this forum. I suggested he join MacFormat UK forums and get input from respected UK Mac journalists such as Chris Phin and Crsig Grannell, who reply on the forums often.

At the end of the day, UK law states that a device must be fit for the purpose it was built for a reasonable time. My iPhone cost me £342 and was bought in September 2009. If it dies in November 2010, two months outside warranty, then it clearly was not built to standard since it only lasted two months outside warranty.

People in the UK have had SuperDrives and Hard Drives replaced outside warranty on their Macs using the Sale Of Goods Act.

At the end of the day, if looked after, a £900 Mac or £400 iPhone SHOULD be expected to last longer than a few months outside it's standard warranty. If they don't then the quality of the product is questionable.

Sigh...

APPLE, gives each buyer the option of buying extended warranty.

Do you know what electronics are? Clearly not. They can fail at any given time. You can have your ****ing iPhone for 2 days and it can explode on you. It's unlikely to happen, but it can.

The point is, Apple offers extended warranty and the OP elected not to purchase it. Apple did their job by offering extended warranty.

 

[kainjow]

This thread is a mess and I'd rather not waste my time cleaning it up, so closing it.