FTC warns six companies of illegal warranty stickers and practices
How many products have you bought that come with stickers proclaiming "warranty void if removed?" Those stickers are remarkably common despite being illegal here in the good ol' US of A since 1975. Last month, the FTC announced that it had alerted six companies that their warranty terms and conditions could be in violation of the law. More recently, the folks at Vice's Motherboard publication discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request that the six companies were Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Hyundai, HTC, and Asus.
The FTC says that the above-named companies' warranty terms could be in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act . That's because the companies imply or outright state that users will lose their warranty coverage under various circumstances, like using third-party parts. That's not legal unless the ...