Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:25983 comp.lang.c++:6514 comp.sys.ibm.pc:44564
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!megatest!djones
From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: open this package and you're stuck with it
Message-ID: <12035@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 00:05:18 GMT
References: <48a44d7c.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
Lines: 19

From article <48a44d7c.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, by nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson):

> 
>    ...  manufacturers are abusing the 
>    "you open it, you can't return it" clause on their packaging.


I would be interested to hear from some lawyer-types on this issue.
I was under the impression that just about every state has an
'implied warranty' law which would nullify the statement on the
shrink-wrap package if the product is demonstrably defective.

But then you probably would not go through the hassle of trying to
recover the cost if they stone-walled you, so the point is moot.
I for one have never bought a product bearing such a statement,
and I probably never will.


[ Followups should go elsewhere. Where? ]