This is unsustainable. The warranty is only against manufacturing defects for a fixed and reasonable amount of time. The days of buying something and having it outlive you went away long before any of us was born.
These days with increased availability and insatiable consumer demand, it's more prudent to look at it as if you're essentially "renting/leasing" the product for the length of the warranty period. Then after that period, you're "free" to keep it instead of returning it back to the manufacturer. This is how service contracts are done on the business side of computing and it is how I've always viewed hardware purchases, including phones.
It's also a particularly good way to discipline yourself concerning purchases: if you can't afford to replace/repurchase that product at the end of the warranty period then your financial situation simply does not allow you to purchase the item in the first place. I'm aware that this mindset goes against a person's desire to buy the latest and greatest on emi while living on maggi for six months but it is a fiscally responsible one.
Have you wondered why rich people stay rich? It's because they don't spend every available rupee/dollar on depreciating assets. It makes sense not to extend your finances over something you can't buy a second time easily.
To look at it another way, if everyone adopted your mindset then everyone will be replacing their purchases before the end of the warranty period and the manufacturer will be forced to respond by raising prices or exiting the market entirely. Neither of those outcome benefits anyone.
This practice is very much unethical and it can be perceived as fraud, initiating an RMA for no other reason other than to get a new sealed prodcut at the end of the warranty period. Whether you're religious or not, deceptive actions have a way of being balanced out in this life (some people call it karma) and I would not want to risk my wealth or health later in life over an unnecessary RMA during my angsty gamer years.
If this if used wisely I don't think anything wrong with it esp. for storage devices or mobos.
And its not about rich and poor, if you are rich then don't even think about warranty, just splurge on every product without even asking for warranty and dump it happily if it dies and not to post for data recovery help or any other help where the business should be simply dump and purchase new stuff.
What about the recent Asus thread where the poor customer even after having a proper invoice is suffering and Asus is been ignorant, there where is the brand policy here ? Now this is plain harassment by the brand to the poor innocent guy who is caught between amazon and asus tiff!
And as mentioned by someone, many people here and outside the forum do rma their products before warranty and not to forget the sale threads here where the product is freshly rmaed for no fault or reasons but only and only to win the heart of the buyer that its a brand new product and still with some warranty which will fetch the seller good selling value. So just because someone agrees if he is doing it for one product you simply cannot start judging him inside out. Then you should interrupt or immediately start interrupting such threads on the name of karma!
And speaking about karma, if you are so much worried about such rma hitting your karma and you fearing of suffering financially and by health I think you must be some sage or a saint having done nothing anything wrong in your life, no mistakes, no hurt business and so on. Rmaing a product isn't affecting someone's karma. Karma takes care if the consumer is doing it for a fair reason or not.
Btw its kalyug if that counts so if you think karma is a b**h then it wont even spare the most honest rich out there.
I'm not taking anyone's sides nor defending or against anyone, just making my points which I feel are valid. If anyone wants to rant or blame its his Karma!
Never thought someone will even think or comes up with linking karma and rma.
It's a hit or miss. A hardware enthusiast would probably care for it. Someone who has nothing to do with computer components and just built the rig in "dekha dekhi" wouldn't care much and let me tell you the majority of rig miners are from latter category.
As I said, rig miners need to be vetted which isn't really possible. Heck, it's not even possible to verify claims of sellers here who say "never mined, only used to play Rocket league".
If not majority of them but there are miners who do care for their rigs as we do for ours. Proper ventilation, gpu cleanups, ac room and what not. While others only care about mining thats it.
People curse flipkart for bad return policies. Back in 2011 or near about when I started using it, it was super consumer friendly with upto 30 day return policies even on electronics with no questions asked. Service was super good since I have even returned a couple mobile phones which actually had issues but try that now and see how much of an hassle it is.
All this is due to such customer frauds and unethical returns. Even Amazon now enforces replacement first then return on electronics, never done that with items worth 5K and over though not sure how would that go with amazon but my point is all these companies and many other started in India with very consumer friendly policies and malicious customers are to blame for the changes in policies done over the years now.
This policy was abused once flipkart started hosting those mobile phone sales. It was then they have to come up with such policies. Not to forget the customer base of flipkart, not as standard as amazon.
Now I know I'm one of those 5 here. Never heard of such practice by the end users like us at least.
But I know people abused Amazon a lot during it's initial days.
I was so happy when Amazon came to India and had 10 days no questions asked return policy for everything. But people abused it to extreme extent. Some people I know used to get iphones on credit card just to show off in a marriage for family function and then return it. Amazon had to change their policies due to these kind of abuse.
Just like for flipkart, the mobile thing spoilt it all and even didnt spared amazon. Hence the tough policies. Not to mention the majority of the class was teenagers who took undue advantage.
