{"id":1000015,"date":"2006-05-10T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/2006\/05\/10\/how-tennessee-protects-consumers\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:18:18","slug":"how-tennessee-protects-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/politics\/2006\/05\/10\/how-tennessee-protects-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tennessee Protects Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was glancing at my AppleCare contract today before I filed it when I noticed this surprising clause:<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Residents<\/h3>\n

This Plan shall be extended as follows: (1) the number of days the consumer is deprived of the use of the product because the product is in repair; plus two (2) additional days.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How civilized! Doubtless this is the result of some specific law in Tennessee; but why couldn’t Apple (and other manufacturers and warranty providers) extend this same courtesy to non-Tennessee residents? It seems like the least they could do if we’re losing time due to their faulty products. It would also be a small incentive for them to expedite turn-around and make sure they have an adequate inventory of spare parts.<\/p>\n

The Federal Trade Commission appears to have statutory authority<\/a> to impose similar, though not quite as stringent, requirements on all U.S. providers of warranties and service contracts. However I don’t think they’ve done so. <\/p>\n

I’m afraid this is likely a relic of earlier, more democratic state legislatures. I find it hard to imagine the bought-and-paid for legislatures you find today enacting such a sensible and fair provision. Even if one or two did, doubtless the lobby pigs would simply pay the U.S. Congress to preempt stronger state legislation with some nice-sounding bill that promised to protect consumers and in fact did the exact opposite. Still, I’d love to be proved wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was glancing at my AppleCare contract today before I filed it when I noticed this surprising clause: Tennessee Residents This Plan shall be extended as follows: (1) the number of days the consumer is deprived of the use of the product because the product is in repair; plus two (2) additional days. How civilized! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}