<div dir="ltr">Lifetime warranties usually only apply to the original purchaser though.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 April 2018 at 16:00,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trs80@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au" target="_blank">trs80@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Richard Bayliss wrote:<br>
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> The ACCC consumer guarantee states it doesn’t apply to second hand (private sales) goods, which is the scenario the OP stated.<br>
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</span>Private (personal) sales, but businesses are still covered: <br>
<a href="https://legalvision.com.au/i-sell-second-hand-goods-do-the-consumer-guarantees-apply/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://legalvision.com.au/i-<wbr>sell-second-hand-goods-do-the-<wbr>consumer-guarantees-apply/</a><br>
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Again, none of this helps the customer deal with the original vendor <br>
asking for 18mo support in arrears. It might if the hardware died without <br>
support, since many vendors provide a lifetime hardware warranty and as <br>
such it would be reasonable to expect that under the ACL.<br>
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