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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by paxys on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:35PM (#29101339)
This entire post seems pretty unnecessary. Not honoring warranty for products bought from unauthorized retailers is pretty standard in the industry. People buying graphics cards from the back of someone's truck or an eBay scalper are well aware of that. And are they implying they will take legal action if you buy one of these cards? Not like they weren't insured anyways.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by mleonhard on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:07PM (#29102911)
> Not honoring warranty for products bought from unauthorized retailers is pretty standard in the industry.

USA is a free market. Everyone is authorized all the time to sell every safe product. The term "authorized reseller" is a linguistic manipulation which benefits manufacturers at the expense of everyone else in society.

Warranty goes with the product until it is used. Companies cannot refuse to honor a warranty because they dislike the person who sold it to you.

Because eVGA did not sell the stolen cards, business laws do not apply to eVGA's dealings with holders of the cards. Therefore eVGA does not have to honor any warranty that would have applied to the cards if eVGA had sold them (to anyone).

I wrote a bit more about this in [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426635

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by MichaelZuo on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:13AM (#29106737)
Many states certainly do not have free markets for new automobiles.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by TMWNN on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:50PM (#29152747)
Yes, but that is because those states have passed laws specifically prohibiting automakers from directly selling to customers. Those laws were enacted long ago to protect auto dealers (as opposed to some sort of anti-Tesla maneuver). Such laws do not exist for most other goods.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by dahart on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:23PM (#29103023)
The post isn’t intended to harm unwitting buyers. The post is sending a message to the thieves, before they try to sell the cards. Should they try anyway, educating buyers to watch out for stolen goods is a great idea that will make the cards harder to sell if it works.
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