Thanks for putting in the effort to check my comment.
I'm not a lawyer. I read through the rest of the California consumer warranty laws and some of the Uniform Commercial Code which California also uses. A warranty goes with a product. It does not matter which company sold the product. A manufacturer cannot refuse to honor a warranty just because it doesn't like the reseller who issued the receipt.
The California law you linked applies to products that were originally sold outside USA. International trade is complicated. That law tries to protect buyers from confusing different products that have the same name. It has an important caveat at the top:
"(1) The item is not covered by a manufacturer’s express written warranty valid in the United States (however, any implied warranty provided by law still exists)."
Implied warranties are made by law. Express warranties are made by manufacturers & resellers and provided in writing to buyers. Even if a foreign-purchased product is sold in the USA with no US express warranty, it still has implied warranties.
>The California law you linked applies to products that were originally sold outside USA.
Neither sections "1797.8. (a)" nor section "1797.81. (a)(1)" talks about products "originally sold outside the USA"
The law talks about _imports_ and not what was _sold_in_foreign_country_. The law then further defines that some imports are considered "grey market".
Using the phrase "originally sold outside the USA" that's not even there in the text of the law is copying the same mistake that Dylan16807 made.
>A manufacturer cannot refuse to honor a warranty just because it doesn't like the reseller who issued the receipt.
I'm not sure why you believe this? I can't find any court case that forces manufacturer to honor a warranty when it is purchased from unauthorized resellers.
>Implied warranties are made by law. [...], it still has implied warranties.
Disclaimers will look similar to the following text: "SELLER MAKES NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE. NOR IS THERE ANY OTHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY."
(I'm sure everyone has seen that verbage before but never really paid attention to it because what most people care about is the manufacturer's warranty.)
I'm not a lawyer. I read through the rest of the California consumer warranty laws and some of the Uniform Commercial Code which California also uses. A warranty goes with a product. It does not matter which company sold the product. A manufacturer cannot refuse to honor a warranty just because it doesn't like the reseller who issued the receipt.
The California law you linked applies to products that were originally sold outside USA. International trade is complicated. That law tries to protect buyers from confusing different products that have the same name. It has an important caveat at the top:
"(1) The item is not covered by a manufacturer’s express written warranty valid in the United States (however, any implied warranty provided by law still exists)."
Implied warranties are made by law. Express warranties are made by manufacturers & resellers and provided in writing to buyers. Even if a foreign-purchased product is sold in the USA with no US express warranty, it still has implied warranties.
New goods have implied warranty periods of at least 60 days. Products without express warranties have implied warranties of 1 year. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Used goods have implied warranty periods of at least 30 days: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...
And the other protections apply. For example, manufacturers/resellers must provide technical documentation for repairing electronic products (>$99) for 7 years from date of manufacture: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...