[Yaesu] Re: Yaesu Warranty on Used FT-897D?

[KBØNLY]

No warranty on amateur gear is transferrable as far as i know!

I checked the warranty card on some of my recent purchases, VX-7R, FT-8800R, 
FT-8900R, and on ALL of them the second item under Limitations of Warranty 
is this:

B. The Limited Warranty extends only to the original retail purchaser, and 
shall not be valid or enforceable unless such original purchaser fully 
completes, signs, and mails to VERTEX STANDARD within ten (10) days from the 
date of such original purchase at retail, the Owner's Warranty Registration 
Card included with this product.

I would like to further not that Yaesu/Vertex is not the only one that 
practices this.  I have also reviewed warranty cards for various Icom and 
Kenwood products and that same holds true.  Though worded different from 
each company the end result is the same, original purchaser only.  I also 
see this statement included in the warranty on various other products i have 
in my home, televisions, microwave, refrigerator, dvd player.. etc.

It's the standard of the industry, there is no guarantee that the original 
owner is selling a 100% functional product, what if they bought it and 
damaged it in such a way that the warranty would not cover the repairs, but 
then sold it to someone else, the company and current owner have no way to 
prove what happened, etc.  It's in the companies best interest to only honor 
the warranty for the original owner.

Try sending something in for repair though, that's where the difference is, 
the ham products division of those companies treat you a lot better on a 
repair than most consumer electronics companies i have dealt with.

73,

Scott