Please remember, if you buy from an unauthorized seller, our products will not carry their standard 1 year warranty. Any issues will have to be handled by the seller. When you purchase from an authorized seller, you are getting their support and our warranty on the product.
You may want to rethink that thought,
You should realize, if you have not already, that 1 year is kind of a piss poor warranty period. You may want to call it "standard," but it's rather short. I doubt if something will necessarily break within 1 year. It's either DOA, when it goes right back to the vendor, or things start failing after a year or two.
So, by giving such a short warranty, iBasso is actually making the unavailability of a warranty not such a BFG.
But are you actually not giving a warranty if it comes from a vendor you didn't approve? (I'm guessing because the vendor didn't sign an agreement not to sell it below a certain price?). Well, I don't play at being a lawyer on the internet, but I'm pretty good at reading, and at least in New York State there's a law (and maybe in a whole bunch of other U.S. states and in other countries there's something similar) that says, I believe, think again:
NY Gen. Bus. Law § 369-b, a New York statute that limits warranty disclaimers:
A warranty or guarantee of merchandise may not be limited by a manufacturer doing business in this state solely for the reason that such merchandise is sold by a particular dealer or dealers, or that the dealer who sold the merchandise at retail has, since the date of sale, either gone out of business or no longer sells such merchandise. Any attempt to limit the manufacturer's warranty or guarantee for the aforesaid reason is void.
Heck, there's even a court case that reads that (in case anyone has issues with reading comprehension) says that the statute prohibits manufacturers from disclaiming warranties because the purchaser bought the product from an unauthorized seller.
See, e.g., Bel Canto Design, Ltd. v. MSS HiFi, Inc., 837 F. Supp. 2d 208 (S.D.N.Y. 2011).
Whew.
Here's my thoughts. If iBasso makes products that will last for more than a year, why not give a warranty for something more reasonable, like 3 years? Then, you can keep on telling people who don't know the above that you won't honor a warranty from an unauthorized vendor, and they will believe you, and they will feel that it's worthwhile to get it from an authorized vendor who will charge more.
Edit: I was originally mistaking Pounds for Dollars. Hifigo is only selling for $50 less.
Edit #2: Many states have laws making it illegal for a manufacturer to require a vendor to make an agreement to not sell a product for less than a certain price.
