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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by namdnay on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:52AM (#27118784)
> it's not like a US court is going to be able to force a UK company to honor a warranty they never offered in the first place because they never sold directly into this market

And if there is an official distributor, they suddenly need to start investigating where every customer got their widget from, because they can't afford to provide warranties on items they didn't get the original markup on

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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by yaur on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:51PM (#27121970)
In this case though Thermoworks has their own branding on Thermapens sold through official channels. If someone were to copy that branding I believe it would be a legitimate counterfeiting situation.
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