| ▲ | Animats 7 hours ago |
| Easy solution if you like tariffs: all imported items over $100 must have a 10 year full warranty.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty... |
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| ▲ | pphysch 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Is it easy? What if an organization avoids liability through shell companies and financial engineering? "The company managing your warranty was acquired by Foobar Inc and their sole building burned down destroying all records. We apologize for the inconvenience." |
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| ▲ | Dylan16807 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well there is the option to make Amazon responsible for what they sell... | | |
| ▲ | MrDrMcCoy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think they should be responsible for accurate listings, swift refunds, taking down misleading products, and banning repeat offenders. I somehow think making Amazon "responsible for what they sell" goes far beyond that in ways that are not reasonable. Only those that make products should be responsible for them. | | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well they don't ban repeat offenders. Trying to directly regulate the banning of repeat offenders seems more difficult and less fruitful than giving the store fallback responsibility for the warranty. Australia gives the store primary responsibility and it seems to work well for them. |
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| ▲ | pydry 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Demand collateral | | |
| ▲ | Animats 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's what bonds are for. US customs requires prepaid bonds for other things. Importers who don't have enough assets would have to post a bond to cover repairs for the product. They get it back at 10 years. | | |
| ▲ | pasc1878 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | A way to get the right to repair for the rest of the world. Apple/MS/Google would have to keep their products working for 10 years. |
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| ▲ | Joel_Mckay 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | When most fortune 500 companies burned brand-goodwill to sell disposable versions of products, it is credulous to believe all problems are external. =3 |
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| ▲ | gowld 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Comment is unrelated to the link, except that both have the word "Warranty". |
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| ▲ | throwitaway222 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | maddie0 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | HN quite famously has more than one person posting to it. | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's not even something the average person would call a tariff. I don't know why they used the word. | |
| ▲ | Telaneo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You know, it's possible to be of the opinion that tariffs might be good in some cases, but bad in others? | |
| ▲ | tracerbulletx 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Alternative hypothesis.. Its not a hive mind and different factions vocalize their different opinions at different times in different places. | | |
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