{"id":12975,"date":"2025-02-15T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12975"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:21:01","slug":"warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-are-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12975","title":{"rendered":"Those ‘Warranty void if removed’ stickers are illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent warning letters<\/a> to eight companies about their warranty practices, including ASRock, Gigabyte and Zotac, voicing concerns that stickers used by these manufacturers violate the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (via The Verge<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act<\/a> was brought into effect in 1975 and was created to prevent manufacturers from using disclaimers on warranties in an unfair or misleading manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FTC deems this sort of wording\u2014alongside the warning stickers attached to multiple companies’ products\u2014as hindering the consumer’s ability to perform routine maintenance and repairs. The US government agency has urged each company in its letter to review promotional and warranty materials to ensure that they do not “state or imply that warranty coverage is conditioned on the use of specific parts or services.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the bottom line according to the iFixit article<\/a>. Under US law, these are the actions that do not void<\/strong> your warranty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n