Regarding IPod Warranty....

[aryayush]

What has this got to do with my liking Apple!

Anyway, I asked an Apple Authorised Reseller and though he told me that it is not recommended to buy it without a bill, he could not give me any reasons for doing so. I asked him whether Apple will service it or not since the registration is done online and is not dependant on the bill and he told me that you might be asked to produce the bill in some cases. However, he clearly wasn't very confident about what he was saying - which leads me to believe that an original iPod purchased without a bill but registered with Apple is fully covered with the warranty.

 

[iMav]

^^ egg jactly

 

[nepcker]

There ought to be some proof of purchase of your iPod, right? Apple won't provide service to stolen iPods, so it's best to buy it without the bill.

 

[aryayush]

Don't you think you made a wee little error there?

 

[nepcker]

Yeah, it should have been:

There ought to be some proof of purchase of your iPod, right? Apple won't provide service to stolen iPods, so it's best to buy it with the bill.

 

[iMav]

an ipod stolen also has a serial no. .... so if u r able to remmber that serial no. and a proof of purchase provide both to apple and request them to pu out some sort notice to all customer care centres that if this pod comes hold it till the issue is solved ... for something like this yes a bill is safe ...

but then its not mandatory to have a bill for servicing

 

[aryayush]

How can the original poster be sure that the iPod he is being given is not a stolen one?

 

[iMav]

how do u come to know that the cell fone u r buying form the grey market is not a stolen 1

 

[aryayush]

Yeah, most products in the grey markets are stolen. No one will deny that.

That is why I am saying that you should avoid buying from the grey market. I never do.

 

[iMav]

Yeah, most products in the grey markets are stolen. No one will deny that.

i deny that word, ur sources have gone to the wrong market

 

[aryayush]

Yeah, maybe then. I have hardly ever gone to grey markets. In Siliguri, I am sure that our grey market has near about hundred percent stolen stuff. So much so that we call it 'chor bazaar. So, my opinion is based on it. I may be wrong, of course.

 

[aryayush]

I was just checking out the support coverage left for my MacBook Pro on Apple's newly designed support web site when I saw this statement:

Please put your sales receipt in a safe place. You will need it for warranty validation.

So, I think we can safely assume that a legal bill is a must if you want to claim service under warranty for an iPod.

I know it is a pretty old thread but I thought it was a point important enough to warrant a post.

 

[iMav]

dude that did not happen twice ... once with me ... my pod was purchased from the white market with bill they did not ask me ... and my friend who purchased it from the grey market got a replacement headphones last month ...

 

[aryayush]

Oh, maybe...

I definitely wouldn't want to risk that, but if a major amount of money is involved, I guess some other people would want to do it.

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

lolz , i got my Ipod nano as a prize ,

now if something happens , i wouldn't have bill to testify that i bought it