When I lived in New Zealand, there was a cellphone shop in Auckland that refused to warranty a Nexus 4 that broke (neither Google nor LG warranty this device, u

When I lived in New Zealand, there was a cellphone shop in Auckland that refused to warranty a Nexus 4 that broke (neither Google nor LG warranty this device, unless you buy it from the Google store). The shop refused to fix it because I had unlocked the bootloader and installed LineageOS. They then told me it would cost $12 to ship the phone back to me! People at work told me, "Don't let them get away with that. We have consumer protection laws." I had to take them to a tribunal. It was like 2 hours for the first session, and they wanted a second one (another 1.5 hours). I made the argument that I can buy a Windows laptop and put Linux on it; showed stats how many people install Lineage, how the mobile data failed first, then the Wi-Fi, and then the phone refused to boot, which is an indication of hardware failure (not my software modifications). I fucking hate that company. Hours wasted and the judge awarded me my $450. What's really stupid? Why didn't Google/LG warranty the devices themselves? This should have been as simple as the company just shipping the device back to LG and shipping me a new one. Pushing the warranty down to the individual vendors to repair is fucking assassin.