Product with a Lifetime Warranty: I get daily emails from Family Handyman, and this one looked interesting. Each of these products has a lifetime warranty. Don't get too excited...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I get daily emails from Family Handyman, and this one looked interesting. Each of these products has a lifetime warranty. Don't get too excited though, because I know from experience that the fine print can eliminate both "lifetime" and "warranty" from the equation.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/stuff-we-love/25-companies-with-super-useful-warranties/view-all/

paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

jerryc41 wrote:

I get daily emails from Family Handyman, and this one looked interesting. Each of these products has a lifetime warranty. Don't get too excited though, because I know from experience that the fine print can eliminate both "lifetime" and "warranty" from the equation.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/stuff-we-love/25-companies-with-super-useful-warranties/view-all/

Here is the way it works. The lifetime warranty thingy is a no go. It is a catch. They promise a warranty and a few years down the line they have updated the product so it is not longer available. Then they do the good thing, that is the good thing for them, and they have a replacement already to go. The problem is the replacement is by far inferior to the one that you had purchased. Everything breaks down at some point. So buyer beware.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

If man makes it, it will break.

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

Another way to dupe the public.

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

The big question is whose lifetime, your lifetime or the lifetime of the company ?

popheizz Loc: berks co., pennsylvania

paulrph1 wrote:

Here is the way it works. The lifetime warranty thingy is a no go. It is a catch. They promise a warranty and a few years down the line they have updated the product so it is not longer available. Then they do the good thing, that is the good thing for them, and they have a replacement already to go. The problem is the replacement is by far inferior to the one that you had purchased. Everything breaks down at some point. So buyer beware.

I can tell you one company that honors their lifetime warranty. That company is VACUFLO. My wife called for a service man to checkout our unit, purchased in 1998, when he looked inside the unit he said "you need a new motor and starting relay, and you are in luck, you have a lifetime warranty". Yes, we had to pay for the visit but the parts were no charge, about $250.00 worth. So yes, some companies do have and honor their lifetime warranty.