chrsplmr wrote:
First .. Welcome to ROG. (Relieved that this in not yet Another broken power input pin.)

PM cl-Albert with your RMA information and ask that he look into this for you.
[Under 'Notifications' above you will find the 'inbox' and there you will find
'Send New Message' - simply type 'cl-Albert' in 'Recipient Users'] Include a link
to this Thread: http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?39454-Need-advice-on-Warranty-Problem

Best of Luck. Please keep us posted.c.

Thanks for the suggestion, I have PM'd cl-Albert

cl-Albert wrote:
Hi bitt3n,

Thanks for sending me your rma number and feel free to PM me if you prefer.

1. Sorry for the confusion, but the Accidental Damage Protection (the name has been changed) is only included in addition to the 1st year of standard warranty provided that you register within 60 days and meet the requirements mentioned at this webpage http://www.service.asus.com/#!register-adp/c203q, so it's not something you will receive automatically by doing nothing and not all ASUS notebooks are eligible for this.

The warranty card that mentioned "Register within 60 days and get an extra one year Accidental Damage Warranty" is referring to this first year of Accidental Damage Protection that you can receive on top of your standard (non-accidental) warranty by following the terms that were outlined (so you would go from zero to 1-year of Accidental Damage Protection for the first year by fulfilling all the requirements).
It may help if you read it this way: Register within 60 days and get an extra ... 'one year Accidental Damage Warranty' (on top of the standard warranty).

2. Also, I was checking your rma number/serial number and it appears your unit came with 1-year standard warranty and you are past the warranty period

I'm afraid I have to agree with chrsplmr here in saying that no reasonable person could interpret "1 year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty - Drops, Fire, Spill, Surge" (taken verbatim from the product specification provided in the link from my original post) as meaning other than that the unit came with a 1 year warranty against accidental damage.

Further, no reasonable person could interpret ASUS's promise of an "extra one year Accidental Damage Warranty" (taken verbatim from ASUS's own warranty document) to mean other than that the purchaser receives a year more accidental damage protection than that included with purchase of the notebook.

Since the notebook, by the listed specifications, already includes one year of accidental damage protection, no reasonable person could interpret the additional "extra" year as being other than a second year of protection.

Whether this is what ASUS actually meant to provide is immaterial. The product warranty specification does not say "standard warranty". It explicitly states "Accidental Damage Warranty". Simply put, the company should stick by its words. I would not have purchased this unit had the documentation not clearly indicated the total warranty to be two full years.

I'm not trying to get something for which I am not entitled here. I feel like I've been tricked, and I'm troubled by the cavalier nature of ASUS's response thus far, given the clarity of the facts.

chrsplmr wrote:

Please see this from Asus as well : http://www.asus.com/support/images/pdf/e8549_nb-warranty-card_148x105mm_final_0827.pdf

From NewEgg Page: (img)

The image chrsplmr posted clearly backs up my case. The original warranty is "1 Year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty". That is what you get when you purchase the unit. The warranty card included with the notebook states, verbatim, "Register within 60 days and get an extra one year Accidental Damage Warranty." (This line is quoted on numerous forums involving warranty discussions of this and other ASUS laptops.)

How can the one year Accidental Damage Warranty provided with the unit, plus the "extra one year Accidental Damage Warranty" possibly, under any reasonable definition of the term "extra," total to one year of Accidental Damage Warranty protection?

If someone can explain this to me, I will cheerfully drop any complaint I have regarding the matter.

As for the PDF, that appears to be the standard warranty document. It does not include accidental damage protection. The product specifications clearly indicate the warranty included is a "1 Year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty".

I see only two options here. Either the original specifications are incorrect, in which case the product appears to have been inadvertently misadvertised, or else the original specifications are correct, in which case the warranty should clearly cover two years.

Please note the following ADP warranty booklet scan from a customer's G series laptop :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jyhk1wt2pfb1v1/SCAN1306_000.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivahxcu8x4on627/SCAN1307_000.pdf


** I'm going to upload the older style warranty card when I get home as well

***https://www.dropbox.com/s/67i0ghlophnm3xi/adwcardoldg.png

I can see where the confusion is now.

By their wording you *should* have 2YR ADW on that unit.

However, the ADW doesn't cover screen issues. It can only be used for Drops, spills, fires & surge.

bitt3n wrote:
I'm afraid I have to agree with chrsplmr here in saying that no reasonable person could interpret "1 year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty - Drops, Fire, Spill, Surge" (taken verbatim from the product specification provided in the link from my original post) as meaning other than that the unit came with a 1 year warranty against accidental damage.

Further, no reasonable person could interpret ASUS's promise of an "extra one year Accidental Damage Warranty" (taken verbatim from ASUS's own warranty document) to mean other than that the purchaser receives a year more accidental damage protection than that included with purchase of the notebook.

Since the notebook, by the listed specifications, already includes one year of accidental damage protection, no reasonable person could interpret the additional "extra" year as being other than a second year of protection.

Whether this is what ASUS actually meant to provide is immaterial. The product warranty specification does not say "standard warranty". It explicitly states "Accidental Damage Warranty". Simply put, the company should stick by its words. I would not have purchased this unit had the documentation not clearly indicated the total warranty to be two full years.

I'm not trying to get something for which I am not entitled here. I feel like I've been tricked, and I'm troubled by the cavalier nature of ASUS's response thus far, given the clarity of the facts.




This image clearly backs up my case. The original warranty is "1 Year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty". That is what you get when you purchase the unit. The warranty card included with the notebook states, verbatim, "Register within 60 days and get an extra one year Accidental Damage Warranty."

How can the one year Accidental Damage Warranty provided with the unit, plus the "extra one year Accidental Damage Warranty" possibly, under any reasonable definition of the term "extra," total to one year of Accidental Damage Warranty protection?

If someone can explain this to me, I will cheerfully drop any complaint I have regarding the matter.

As for the PDF, that appears to be the standard warranty document. It does not include accidental damage protection. The product specifications clearly indicate the warranty included is a "1 Year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty".

I see only two options here. Either the original specifications are incorrect, in which case the product appears to have been inadvertently misadvertised, or else the original specifications are correct, in which case the warranty should clearly cover two years.

Shawnnepc wrote:
Please note the following ADP warranty booklet scan from a customer's G series laptop :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jyhk1wt2pfb1v1/SCAN1306_000.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivahxcu8x4on627/SCAN1307_000.pdf


** I'm going to upload the older style warranty card when I get home as well

***https://www.dropbox.com/s/67i0ghlophnm3xi/adwcardoldg.png

I can see where the confusion is now.

By their wording you *should* have 2YR ADW on that unit.

However, the ADW doesn't cover screen issues. It can only be used for Drops, spills, fires & surge.

Thanks those links are very helpful. As for the 2 year ADW covering damage caused if and only if the unit is mistreated, rather than being inclusive of failures that occur under normal operation... to me this reading strains credulity. The original one-year warranty itself (in the pic chrsplmr posted above) is specified as an "Accidental Damage Warranty - Drops, Fires, Spills, Surges," and it seems inconceivable that ASUS actually intended this original warranty to cover only accidents, fires, spills, and surges, and not failures occurring during normal operation of the unit.