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> You buy a dishwasher from Best Buy. They send your name and address to Maytag... Cool? Since most appliance manufacturers require you registering your produc

> You buy a dishwasher from Best Buy. They send your name and address to Maytag... Cool? Since most appliance manufacturers require you registering your product with them for warranty service, yes, please take care of that for me (many appliance stores do). Now _should_ Maytag require that registration? If it makes for a quicker and smoother warranty service process then I'm okay with it - better than needing to dig up a receipt in three years, only to find that the thermal printing has faded.

IgorPartola 6y ago
There is a difference between you checking off a box that says “send my info to Maytag” and BestBut just doing it and then when you find out about it Maytag saying “you weren’t supposed to find out”.
- ryandrake 6y ago
  The difference, as usual, is: consent and control. 1. the user did not provide affirmative informed consent (it was buried in a ToS doc that nobody reads) and 2. the user has no meaningful control of the sharing.
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lotsofpulp 6y ago
> Since most appliance manufacturers require you registering your product with them for warranty service, yes, please take care of that for me (many appliance stores do) Manufacturers legally have to honor their warranty regardless of you giving them your information. They don’t exactly say you won’t be covered by warranty if you don’t “register”, because they legally can’t.
- sudosysgen 6y ago
  The trick used in the US is that if you do not offer this information you get a ridiculously short legal-minimum warranty.
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    In over two decades of buying appliances and electronics, I’ve never seen a device in the US offer a longer warranty if you send in your information.
    - sudosysgen 6y ago
      Really? This happened to me at least ten times, and I'm not even American, just sometime buy devices directly from the US. For example, my LG phone comes with an additional year if you register your device.

IgorPartola 6y ago

There is a difference between you checking off a box that says “send my info to Maytag” and BestBut just doing it and then when you find out about it Maytag saying “you weren’t supposed to find out”.

ryandrake 6y ago
The difference, as usual, is: consent and control. 1. the user did not provide affirmative informed consent (it was buried in a ToS doc that nobody reads) and 2. the user has no meaningful control of the sharing.

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lotsofpulp 6y ago

> Since most appliance manufacturers require you registering your product with them for warranty service, yes, please take care of that for me (many appliance stores do) Manufacturers legally have to honor their warranty regardless of you giving them your information. They don’t exactly say you won’t be covered by warranty if you don’t “register”, because they legally can’t.

sudosysgen 6y ago
The trick used in the US is that if you do not offer this information you get a ridiculously short legal-minimum warranty.
- lotsofpulp 6y ago
  In over two decades of buying appliances and electronics, I’ve never seen a device in the US offer a longer warranty if you send in your information.
  - sudosysgen 6y ago
    Really? This happened to me at least ten times, and I'm not even American, just sometime buy devices directly from the US. For example, my LG phone comes with an additional year if you register your device.