The annual return history of the company awarded the tender is interesting, to say the least. Their website also claims over 10 years in business, yet CIPC records show the company was only registered in 2018.
Oh dear. You're still confusing a limitation of liability/damages with the primary warranty remedy.
The warranty separately defines the remedy as repair or replacement. The damages clause caps WD's financial exposure. lost data, downtime, consequential damages on failed hardware..
Nobody said a warranty is price insurance. The point is that a 2TB NVMe was warranted, not its historical rand value.
OP didn't cause the AI bubble or NAND price increases. How the distributor and retailer settle things between themselves isn't the consumer's problem.
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So much waffle.. You're conflating the value of the product with the product that was warranted.
OP didn't cause the AI bubble or the price increase. He bought a 2TB drive with a X warranty. How much it costs to honour that warranty years later isn't his problem.
Besides, the supplier isn't necessarily taking the full knock anyway. They can send the failed drive back through WD's warranty/RMA process and get a replacement or credit from WD. That's literally what the warranty chain is there for.
You’ve got to be joking. He bought a 2TB PCI 4 nvme drive with a multi year warranty. If the supplier can't source the same drive, then replace it with a similarly specced 2TB nvme drive and take the facking knock.
Offering a 1TB PCI 3 drive, an external mechanical HDD or some generic 4TB...
Geez, 10 years to perfect it and you can’t move the dock to the left for us lefties?
And only two apps open at the same time?
Revolutionary stuff. ROFL.