The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on warranty policies that run afoul of the right-to-repair movement, and/or are otherwise deceptive.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on warranty policies that run afoul of the right-to-repair movement. As part of the crackdown, the FTC sent warning letters to eight companies detailing warranty term violations. In three of those letters, which were sent out to ASRock, Gigabyte, and Zotac, the FTC took issue with warranty stickers that potentially stand in the way of a do-it-yourself (DIY) or third-party repair.These types of stickers typically say „warranty void if removed“ or something similar, and are often placed in locations that would make it impossible to perform repairs and/or what the FTC calls „routine maintenance“ without peeling the sticker off. Examples we’ve seen in the wild include a single sticker that overlaps onto two separate sections of a product, or over the top of a screw that needs to be removed.
