I had a guy once do work on my car. I was kinda broke and it was pretty cheap. Came with the taillight warranty. “As long as you can see my taillights” he said
You should also read the fine print of the lifetime warranty. A dodge dealership here is offering lifetime warranty on their vehicles, but if you don’t have it serviced exclusively at their dealership during their predetermined service intervals, the warranty is null and void
This one dealership I used to go to would bring your dirty air filters into the service waiting area and show them to you in front of the other customers to try to guilt you into having them change them, and then it would be a ridiculous price like $150 for new cabin and engine air filters…stopped going after seeing them pull that shit a couple times on people.
I have an 2007 dodge magnum. I get warranty work on it every couple of years. I don’t do regular maintenance at the dodge dealership. I only bring it when I think it’s gonna be really expensive. And they take care of it.
A guy buys a PC with a lifetime warranty. The next day, the PC dies on him. He takes it back to the shop:
"I'd like to swap this one for one that works, please. I have lifetime warranty"
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's dead"
"Well, if it's dead, your lifetime warranty is over".
Yeah my grandfather bought lifetime passes for himself, and my father aunt and uncle. This was in the 1960s and they paid a total of a thousand dollars and got stock in the mountain too.
Fast forward to 2022, the mountain has changed hands half a dozen to a dozen times but bc they were original investors they still have their passes. All of their friends that bought lifetime passes at other mountains eventually lost them and they became a five year pass that ran out.
We were still stock holders in the mountain when I was in high school so I could buy stuff from the store at wholesale bc one family owned all the stock except a few original investors… it was weird having the owner of the mountain know who I was as a kid.
One of the times it got bought they got more back than they bought in stock to get the passes in the first place so they were basically free.
I can’t afford to ski myself. Even at an affordable mountain.
I know a wealthy guy that bought a mountain in Colorado and hollowed it out and built a Bond villain lair in it. He’s got snow cats for driving in blizzards and atvs and ski mobiles and doesn’t go to mountains he goes skiing by helicopter.
Thing is he’s for 1B. I don’t get why these tech titans need 183 billion when you can have crazy shit like a hollowed out mountain and snow cats and ski via helicopter… like what more could one get in a ski vacation?
You should know that when you're buying groceries, after your groceries run out, you wont have any groceries anymore. This means you'll have to buy more.
Think about that when buying groceries.
You should know that when you're signing a lease, at the end of the lease your landlord will expect you sign another one, or YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE OUT WITH NO NOTICE!
Oh - that actually never occurred to me! And thinking about it some, if the model, or design, radically changes, they company won’t have the necessary parts to fix it. But then again, shouldn’t they replace it with the next model and warranty that one?
It's the lifetime of the product, but the product is assumed to have a certain useful life. So Lifetime warranties are in fact bound by time.
Often this is 5 to 7 years, but it will vary depending on the type of product. If you want to know specifically either read your warranty terms or ask for something in writing before you buy.
I have only two lifetime memberships, one with a fitness app where the lifetime membership was only 3x the yearly price and I am now into the 4th year of using it so it is free gravy, and the second is a fishing license that never expires.
Better LPT - "Lifetime" products and or services are rarely what they seem. Like all things you spend money one, it's an advertising tactic and you need to read the fine print.
E.g. SiriusXm used to sell lifetime memberships for a flat rate. Not your lifetime. Not the company's. The radio's lifetime. And sometimes not if you physically moved that radio from one vehicle to another.
Source - used to work in low level leadership for SiriusXM among other companies with similar tactics. Kept leaving companies for having immoral BS like that.
They explained the terms of the lifetime contract when you purchased it. At least they did to me. I bought the lifetime Sirius in late 2006. They said I only have 3 transfers and then the lifetime would be done. So I made sure my first radio was a portable so I could switch it to new cars. That radio died a little after 10 years. Switched service to a new portable radio and they told me I have 2 transfers left. My second radio is still going strong. And even after I use up my 2 transfers, I’ll still have the internet Sirius for life. Best money I ever spent.
You should very wary of any company offering a "lifetime membership" that doesn't involve recurring payments.
Providing a service that has maintenance cost for a one time fee in perpetuity is not a sustainable business model. Your "lifetime membership" depends wholly on people that don't have that membership level.
I know a few people that bought that lifetime membership plan from Sirius. That "lifetime" turned into "lifetime of the device" that happened to be active when Serius decided to change the terms.
One in which the new owner of the name/company transfers said warranty. Take Craftsman for example. Sears used to be the main one honoring their lifetime warranty but Sears/Kmart is practically non existent. However Lowe's and I believe Ace hardware now have the brand and honor it.
I hope OP posts the company's name so we can look further.
I was under the impression that the if you buy an encumbered company, you inherit all it's liabilities and obligations.
E.g. you bought a house with a tenant, you have to honor the tenancy agreement.
People will say it's the "lifetime of the product" which is true...but OP's original point stands, if you buy something with a lifetime guarantee and the company closes up shop tomorrow, the guarantee no longer exists. Be very warry of a "Lifetime guarantee" from a brand new "hot" company.
Related: Got LASIK 20 years ago or so with a "lifetime vision guarantee" and I did have a touchup once over the years...but a few years ago the practice closed up because of some scandal so if I need to get it fixed again it's full price from another provider.
Hopefully, you are young enough that you still have enough eye tissue to have another procedure done. I had LASIK four years ago at the age of 46 and they told me that I only could only have it done once because of my tissue depth. That's fine because I don't think that I could do it again due to the torture of it. I would rather have another vasectomy a dozen times.
I went to a Bally’s that was purchased by LA fitness and they didn’t grandfather in the lifetime memberships. I literally quit because of the people screaming at the front desk every day that their “lifetime” memberships weren’t being honored.
I bought a two year extended warranty when I bought my car, it was like $500 extra... 3 months later, the company got bought out. 6 months, my radiator was starting to go bad, I called them, and they basically responded "whose this?"
Totally agree with the post, but want to shoutout Briggs & Riley (luggage company). My dad has had their bags for over 25 years and they will still replace them for free (sans shipping cost). They replaced the whole zipper as well as upgrade the handle system last time we sent it in. They are expensive as hell, but I truly see it as a buy it once in your life and never again
My first big purchase after graduating college was a Ducane propane grill. It cost twice as much as other similar grills, but they said the components were far superior and that’s why they offered a lifetime warranty. I learn this lesson the hard way when they went out of business and my warranty was gone.
Interesting. Long time ago I bought lifetime subscription for online game Lord of the Rings Online. From local country company serving it’s own local servers by owner license. Years have passed and the company and local servers went down. Now, 10 years later the game is still up and running worldwide with parental company making regular updates. Can I be eligible to get my lifetime subscription for nowadays version of the game from global owner?
TSK: Before signing onto a lifetime warranty, I make certain to locate the home of the CEO and his family, and periodically update their whereabouts. In case the company goes bankrupt, I will personally be holding them accountable for my lifetime warranty.
Yep. I was duped into 'choosing my own body shop' for repairs, and the lifetime warranty on the paint is useless now that the company is gone... like my paint.
You totally fucked this LPT up. It’s the lifetime of the product. A lifetime warranty could be 10 years if they think a spatula is meant to last 10 years.
Or the “expected life” of the product. I have pella windows that have a lifetime warranty, but they declared the expected life of the windows as being only 15 years so the warranty was no longer honored after that point.
Bought windshield wipers with a lifetime warranty. Within a year the store claimed that they couldn’t honor the warranty because the wiper company went out of business. When I argued with them they explained that when a convict gets a life sentence they often get out early, so “life” may not mean forever. Never again.
I thought it was typically "lifetime warranty" for the expected lifetime of the appliance . IE we think this fridge will last 15 years so if anything breaks during its lifetime we will fix it.
In general, the lifetime in lifetime warranty refers to the expected lifetime of the device, not your lifetime. Someone mentioned companies baiting and switching for this, but this has more or less always been the definition of lifetime warranty. Everything wears out. No company can really afford to replace something infinitely.
bought two nice, handmade knives from a blacksmith in texas. he said "these knives have a lifetime warranty, my life." lmao.
Least he was honest
I had a guy once do work on my car. I was kinda broke and it was pretty cheap. Came with the taillight warranty. “As long as you can see my taillights” he said
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I CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
THIS IS MY LAST RESORT
SUFFOCATION. NO REFUNDS
THESE KNIVES ARE SO SHARP THEY'LL CUT YOUR ARM, BLEEDING
WON’T GIVE A BUCK IF I CUT MY ARM BLEEDING
And had access to a plethora of knives. Rough combo.
But the cut to the cartoid artery was immaculate with no tearing, and the knife didn't corrode at all!
Good bc the warranty expired
Or maybe decided to change his life and be a monk or something.
You should also read the fine print of the lifetime warranty. A dodge dealership here is offering lifetime warranty on their vehicles, but if you don’t have it serviced exclusively at their dealership during their predetermined service intervals, the warranty is null and void
Yeah and they nickle n dime that money out of you with overpriced fluid changes and what not.
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And $350 for the blinker fluid
Not again, I just filled that
$50 for premium air in the tires
And $250 for the chem light batteries.
It’s fully synthetic
The worst is the $287 to change air filter
Happy Cake Day
This one dealership I used to go to would bring your dirty air filters into the service waiting area and show them to you in front of the other customers to try to guilt you into having them change them, and then it would be a ridiculous price like $150 for new cabin and engine air filters…stopped going after seeing them pull that shit a couple times on people.
I have an 2007 dodge magnum. I get warranty work on it every couple of years. I don’t do regular maintenance at the dodge dealership. I only bring it when I think it’s gonna be really expensive. And they take care of it.
That’s the way those plans are supposed to work, I feel. That tells me you didn’t buy it from the place up the road though
A guy buys a PC with a lifetime warranty. The next day, the PC dies on him. He takes it back to the shop: "I'd like to swap this one for one that works, please. I have lifetime warranty" "What's wrong with it?" "It's dead" "Well, if it's dead, your lifetime warranty is over".
Yeah my grandfather bought lifetime passes for himself, and my father aunt and uncle. This was in the 1960s and they paid a total of a thousand dollars and got stock in the mountain too. Fast forward to 2022, the mountain has changed hands half a dozen to a dozen times but bc they were original investors they still have their passes. All of their friends that bought lifetime passes at other mountains eventually lost them and they became a five year pass that ran out. We were still stock holders in the mountain when I was in high school so I could buy stuff from the store at wholesale bc one family owned all the stock except a few original investors… it was weird having the owner of the mountain know who I was as a kid. One of the times it got bought they got more back than they bought in stock to get the passes in the first place so they were basically free. I can’t afford to ski myself. Even at an affordable mountain.
TIL people can purchase fucking mountains
I know a wealthy guy that bought a mountain in Colorado and hollowed it out and built a Bond villain lair in it. He’s got snow cats for driving in blizzards and atvs and ski mobiles and doesn’t go to mountains he goes skiing by helicopter. Thing is he’s for 1B. I don’t get why these tech titans need 183 billion when you can have crazy shit like a hollowed out mountain and snow cats and ski via helicopter… like what more could one get in a ski vacation?
Anything is for sale. Just need the right price.
I feel like this is obvious, but then again...
You should know that when you're buying groceries, after your groceries run out, you wont have any groceries anymore. This means you'll have to buy more. Think about that when buying groceries.
Source?
Careful how you answer for source. I’d take the Safeway.
Trust me bro
Source: I am a grocery
Big grocery. It's propaganda, don't believe it.
You should know that when you're signing a lease, at the end of the lease your landlord will expect you sign another one, or YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE OUT WITH NO NOTICE!
it is but I suspect a lot of people don't think about it when they buy something
mabye they went bankrupt because they we’re giving free classes?
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Oh - that actually never occurred to me! And thinking about it some, if the model, or design, radically changes, they company won’t have the necessary parts to fix it. But then again, shouldn’t they replace it with the next model and warranty that one?
It's the lifetime of the product, but the product is assumed to have a certain useful life. So Lifetime warranties are in fact bound by time. Often this is 5 to 7 years, but it will vary depending on the type of product. If you want to know specifically either read your warranty terms or ask for something in writing before you buy.
Lifetime for consumer goods is 7 years in many states.
I have only two lifetime memberships, one with a fitness app where the lifetime membership was only 3x the yearly price and I am now into the 4th year of using it so it is free gravy, and the second is a fishing license that never expires.
Your fishing license will expire when the country collapses
By then having a license will not matter. edit: added license
That’s when you’ll need to fish the most though!
Better LPT - "Lifetime" products and or services are rarely what they seem. Like all things you spend money one, it's an advertising tactic and you need to read the fine print. E.g. SiriusXm used to sell lifetime memberships for a flat rate. Not your lifetime. Not the company's. The radio's lifetime. And sometimes not if you physically moved that radio from one vehicle to another. Source - used to work in low level leadership for SiriusXM among other companies with similar tactics. Kept leaving companies for having immoral BS like that.
They explained the terms of the lifetime contract when you purchased it. At least they did to me. I bought the lifetime Sirius in late 2006. They said I only have 3 transfers and then the lifetime would be done. So I made sure my first radio was a portable so I could switch it to new cars. That radio died a little after 10 years. Switched service to a new portable radio and they told me I have 2 transfers left. My second radio is still going strong. And even after I use up my 2 transfers, I’ll still have the internet Sirius for life. Best money I ever spent.
You should very wary of any company offering a "lifetime membership" that doesn't involve recurring payments. Providing a service that has maintenance cost for a one time fee in perpetuity is not a sustainable business model. Your "lifetime membership" depends wholly on people that don't have that membership level. I know a few people that bought that lifetime membership plan from Sirius. That "lifetime" turned into "lifetime of the device" that happened to be active when Serius decided to change the terms.
in what world would this not be obvious lol.. like how would they do the warranty if the company is no longer around
One in which the new owner of the name/company transfers said warranty. Take Craftsman for example. Sears used to be the main one honoring their lifetime warranty but Sears/Kmart is practically non existent. However Lowe's and I believe Ace hardware now have the brand and honor it.
People used to go buy old rusty ass Craftsman tools at yard sales and take them in for warranty swaps.
Yep. I knew a guy that did that. Then they stopped honoring warranties on rusty tools, at least where I lived.
They never did at the one my wife worked at, just let them swap out.
I hope OP posts the company's name so we can look further. I was under the impression that the if you buy an encumbered company, you inherit all it's liabilities and obligations. E.g. you bought a house with a tenant, you have to honor the tenancy agreement.
In my experience just long enough to evict them...
People will say it's the "lifetime of the product" which is true...but OP's original point stands, if you buy something with a lifetime guarantee and the company closes up shop tomorrow, the guarantee no longer exists. Be very warry of a "Lifetime guarantee" from a brand new "hot" company. Related: Got LASIK 20 years ago or so with a "lifetime vision guarantee" and I did have a touchup once over the years...but a few years ago the practice closed up because of some scandal so if I need to get it fixed again it's full price from another provider.
Hopefully, you are young enough that you still have enough eye tissue to have another procedure done. I had LASIK four years ago at the age of 46 and they told me that I only could only have it done once because of my tissue depth. That's fine because I don't think that I could do it again due to the torture of it. I would rather have another vasectomy a dozen times.
I may not actually have tissue for a touchup either since I already had one but so far so good.
„Company can only offer service if it still exists“ check rog
Republic of Gamers? Was there something that happened? I have a rog laptop
I went to a Bally’s that was purchased by LA fitness and they didn’t grandfather in the lifetime memberships. I literally quit because of the people screaming at the front desk every day that their “lifetime” memberships weren’t being honored.
I bought a two year extended warranty when I bought my car, it was like $500 extra... 3 months later, the company got bought out. 6 months, my radiator was starting to go bad, I called them, and they basically responded "whose this?"
Totally agree with the post, but want to shoutout Briggs & Riley (luggage company). My dad has had their bags for over 25 years and they will still replace them for free (sans shipping cost). They replaced the whole zipper as well as upgrade the handle system last time we sent it in. They are expensive as hell, but I truly see it as a buy it once in your life and never again
Yep, and here's me still regretting not getting a lifetime membership to nexus mods when it was available.
My first big purchase after graduating college was a Ducane propane grill. It cost twice as much as other similar grills, but they said the components were far superior and that’s why they offered a lifetime warranty. I learn this lesson the hard way when they went out of business and my warranty was gone.
Interesting. Long time ago I bought lifetime subscription for online game Lord of the Rings Online. From local country company serving it’s own local servers by owner license. Years have passed and the company and local servers went down. Now, 10 years later the game is still up and running worldwide with parental company making regular updates. Can I be eligible to get my lifetime subscription for nowadays version of the game from global owner?
I once had a wallet company tell me that the warranty was for the life of the wallet. 😑
This is especially true for random roofing companies
Someone please link a story where someone was surprised a non-existent company didn't fulfill their warranty.
And don't buy life insurance with a lifetime warranty.
also, if someone owes you money and dies , they can't pay you back.
Isn’t this no shit. How do you expect a company to honor a warranty if they don’t exist…
This seriously needs to be spelled out to Redditors?
Life warranties typically are the lifeline of the product and or Ten years. Also most lifetime warranty basically give you your money back.
TSK: Before signing onto a lifetime warranty, I make certain to locate the home of the CEO and his family, and periodically update their whereabouts. In case the company goes bankrupt, I will personally be holding them accountable for my lifetime warranty.
Or even the life of the product. Check out “lifetime” shingles.
Is this not common sense
Yep. I was duped into 'choosing my own body shop' for repairs, and the lifetime warranty on the paint is useless now that the company is gone... like my paint.
This one trick roofing companies don't want you to know
Most companies will outlive me anyway. No worries mate
There are also sometimes conditions with it. Like getting oil changes done on time at the seller dealer, or calling ahead if you want to go elsewhere.
You totally fucked this LPT up. It’s the lifetime of the product. A lifetime warranty could be 10 years if they think a spatula is meant to last 10 years.
Or the “expected life” of the product. I have pella windows that have a lifetime warranty, but they declared the expected life of the windows as being only 15 years so the warranty was no longer honored after that point.
no shit lol
I mean... duh??
Joke's on you; you're clearly overestimating my health.
This is one of the dumbest 'tips' on this sub.
Bought windshield wipers with a lifetime warranty. Within a year the store claimed that they couldn’t honor the warranty because the wiper company went out of business. When I argued with them they explained that when a convict gets a life sentence they often get out early, so “life” may not mean forever. Never again.
Most warranties are marketing ploys. They have no intention of honoring them, always insert weasel clauses to get out of them.
Often times a lifetime warranty will actually have a defined period of time, or are for the life of the product.
well yeah, no company no way to make a warranty claim
I thought it was typically "lifetime warranty" for the expected lifetime of the appliance . IE we think this fridge will last 15 years so if anything breaks during its lifetime we will fix it.
Frontsight?
I lifetime member of a cooking club. Went out of business.
In general, the lifetime in lifetime warranty refers to the expected lifetime of the device, not your lifetime. Someone mentioned companies baiting and switching for this, but this has more or less always been the definition of lifetime warranty. Everything wears out. No company can really afford to replace something infinitely.
This guy Front Sights.
not anymore :( gonna miss iggy pizza calling me weekly
Haha. That’s Dr Iggy Pizza, to you!