Western Digital Hard warranty "out of region"?

ihartley wrote:

Also bear in mind that most warranties are not legally enforceable in many countries as they try to restrict/limit statutory laws. Software companies are notorious for this, e.g.: - "by opening this package you accept the license terms (which are inside the package)", and - "this software probably won't do what it's advertised to, but hey that's your problem buddy" Perhaps if you contact WD and offer to pay additional postage costs they will honour the warranty. Otherwise find a way to have it forwarded once it is replaced under warranty in the original country. Be careful what you wish for in having "one region" - you don't want to end up with the EU :-)

Yeah, these companies have all kinds of tricks with their legal maneuvers.

I agree with you that the EU is nothing but trouble and a country should not have to be controlled by some central force or global entity. Same with states having their own right and not be slaves to the federal government. However as far as warranties are concern, North America is usually considered its own geographic region which does not mean that its considered one government but rather that its relatively close together on a map