You provide warranty service to anyone who owns the product during the warranty period; that is, you do not limit coverage to first purchasers.

You provide warranty service free of charge, including such costs as returning the product or removing and reinstalling the product when necessary.

SquareTrade continues providing services to eBay users, such as warranty services and the trustmark program.

Northgate will no longer supply any type of warranty services inclusive of technical phone support.

A little history: I got the hard drive from a friend who took his Toshiba laptop to Best Buy for warranty service.

From 2006 forward, service offerings have been exclusively tied to the eVU product, including warranty service, media content procurement/refreshing and hardware repair.

While a factory-authorized warranty service is set up to restore faulty equipment to its original performance specifications, gray-market repairs are often haphazard.

"People may be aware they don't have to take a car to the dealer for warranty service," he said, "but they will still be inclined to do so."

The cars, which even Chinese drivers buy only as a last resort, were re-exported out of Florida to downmarket climes where warranty service comes cheap.

Previously, warranty service was available only from United States dealers.