Legal Obligation of "Guarantee"?

[elementxero 10+ year member]

Is there an actual legal obligation to fulfill a guarantee? Or is it a flimsy term tossed around mostly as a marketing gimmick? Obviously a guarantee SHOULD imply some sort of legal accountability by definition, but is it something that the word represents?

If you said, "100% Guaranteed" without any terms, would it mean anything?

I think if you said "100% Guaranteed or your money back" you would, but with it being vague I'm not so sure?

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[2002XLT 5,000+ posts]

depends on what your guarantee says. If i say its 100% guaranteed, i could mean its 100% guaranteed to be a piece of sht. Gimmick, but a reputable company will stand behind their product no matter what.

 

[slick rick 10+ year member]

details would help..is it an express or implied warranty of merchantibility perhaps?

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

haha well actually it's not a real life situation, it's more of an amusing conversation that arose from someone using the phrase "100% retraction guarantee" to basically mean that "If you aren't completely satisfied, I'll retract my guarantee".

Slowly it built up to the point that the idea of a guarantee was put into question.

So I guess my question is, does something have to be "guaranteed to be XYZ", with conditions, to be valid, as opposed to just being generically "Guaranteed"?

 

[slick rick 10+ year member]

keep getting more vague with your questions...and the applicable law goes that way too. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif If you don't guarantee something, there can be implied guarantees. If you guarantee something, there are loopholes around that guarantee.

 

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

I guarantee that there is no guarantee if theres no believing the guarantee is valid.

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[elementxero 10+ year member]

Semantics can be fun.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

haha Tommy Boy comes to mind