Warranties and disclaimers

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unky_gumbi

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Do any of you include a warranty and disclaimer printed up with the knives you sell? Sort of the if you misuse it and break it or hurt your self its your fault thing printed up in plain English?
 
If you're worried about somebody abusing a knife and asking you to fix it, write up a warranty statement. If you're worried about somebody abusing a knife and hurting themselves...buy liability insurance. If somebody came after you because they were an idiot and cut off their finger doing something stupid, etc all the little slips of paper packaged with a knife won't necessarily save you from their lawyer....
 
I have a standard business liability insurance, costs me $400 per year. If someone does something stupid with one of my knives, or hurts someone with one of my fencing swords, or if I mess up someone's jewelry trying to fix it I'm covered. If you write a warrantee statement you can be held in court to all sorts of stupidity that could be inferred, derived or misinterpreted by anything you do not specifically rule out with disclaimers. If you do put a warrantee statement, limit your liability to repair or replacement of the knife at your discretion. If I did not have a limit of liability in my wedding photography contract I would have had to re-create an entire wedding I got sued by a bride about (including flying in and catering for several thousand guests) because I had a camera malfunction and lost ONE picture that was not even part of my contract. Fortunately I had learned from the example of one photographer in Hawaii who actually did have to re-create an entire wedding because he had not limited his liability and got sued by bridezilla

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Its just that I am sending out that knife to Texas today and I thought that since there was no money exchanged in the transaction that stating that there was no warranty on it was fine, and being that Canada is not as big on liability suits that the USA is that I would add a disclaimer to liability. I am not making any money on the knives I make yet so spending money for the insurance is a little out of my league right now as is a lawyer being I am not even covering any of the cost of materials or my time
 
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