Can I obtain a RMA on Intel X25-M G2s without a store invoice?

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hi

I recently purchased some retail Intel X25-M 80GB SSD from eBay in the USA without thinking about warranty issues.

I only later found out from reading the warranty T&C that Intel might require a proof a purchase. The only proof of purchase is the Paypal invoice the seller has issued me. Will this be sufficient to obtain warranty from Intel? ( the seller can't provide a proper receipt unfortunately)

or can I obtain RMA service based on the drive's serial number information? Has anyone returned a drive to Intel for service before?

any info or help would be appreciated.

[idata]

In europe you definately need the proof of purchase.....

[idata]

I have heard of several who simply went to Intel and they didnt ask for a receipt whatsoever. lets face it, the drive hasnt been out longer than the warranty yet which is something you can bring up if they try and deny it.

[idata]

As i said, in europe at least it dosen't work like that, they need an invoice for any of their high value products, extreme CPUs SSDs Servers etc

[idata]

I can confirm this.

And it gets better: They needed it either scanned or faxed - preferrably faxed.

Yes, the good old fax. Invented around 1870... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax)

Since I purchased my SSD through an online store, all I got was an email with a .pdf.

So I printed that.

And found a working fax somewhere.

Its funny if it was'nt true...

Still don't know whether they will replace the disk or try to fix it. I would MUCH prefer the latter, especially if I can get the content back!

~~DukeP~~