I don't think thats enforceable. According to the website...

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/sh … dex_en.htm

EU law provides for a two-year guarantee for any new goods bought from a professional seller based in the EU. During this two-year period, the seller is responsible for any fault in the product - you must be able to use your sofa normally without any faults appearing.

Solidoodle is not based in the EU, and therefor is not bound by the regulation according to that website.

point to you IF you buy it directly from Solidoodle, BUT as solidoodle sell it thru retailers (like The iMakr Store ) in the UK
(England is in the EU even if they didn't use the money, and imakr fall under eu laws as a brick and mortar company selling goods in UK),  Imakr will be obliged to put this 2 years warranty even if solidoodle didn't want to...(and for free) 
i don't think that imakr will still sell solidoodles if they refuse to repair their printers after 60 days as that's imakr that will pay for repairs instead of solidoodle

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/sh … dex_en.htm

Solidoodle is not based in the EU, and therefor is not bound by the regulation according to that website.

Serin wrote:

I'm curious, SoliJohn.
What is the exact number of days that you stand behind your product for?
I ask because in Australia it's rare for a business to get away with having blazé warranty specs.

We are working to formalize our Warranty. We shall be publishing a formal warranty in the near term future, however the terms of this warranty shall not be different from our  internal practices. We offer replacements for manufacturer defects found within 60 days of purchase. Our warranty will not cover wear and tear. So, in the case of the OP, he would not be covered under the formal Warranty. We do provide replacements for these parts, just not for free for users outside the 60 day period.

Hope that clears things up.

you know that what you said in your paper and EVEN if you said that you does not have a warranty, you are OBLIGED to provide a 2 years guarantee if you sell your printers in europe (If a product turns out to be faulty or not as advertised (‘non-conformity’), you have a 2-year guarantee, which means the seller must repair or replace it free of charge.)  a little link for you
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/ecc/consu … ces_en.htm

even in canada, it's one year minimum (all the -30/60 day warranty- that you can find sometimes are not legal..) so i think you will hit a wall if you continue to said that your warranty will be 60 days.. or you will restrict your sells at the USA only

Mitch

beleive they have also fixed the problem with the bed heater trace being too small.

They have, and they've gone back to quad-layer boards instead of trying to do dual-layer on the cheap.

http://www.geeetech.com/reprap-sanguino … p-609.html Note: Sale will be over soon, so this link will probably be back to $60 when others view it. But also note Geeetech has a sale every weekend.

Also, printrboard is usually on sale for $40. The connectors are backwards, but it only took me 40 minutes to make some short extension connector cables to switch back and forth between clone and SD original board. I beleive they have also fixed the problem with the bed heater trace being too small.

If you don't, then connectors, headers and FETs is about the size of it. You could do the Drivers too since really they aren't that fine a pitch.. but lots of people get scared it seems when you mention the word soldering (with or without pronunciation of the 'L' )

Regardless.. the latest versions from Geeetech are back to quad-layer and have fixed the dodgy traces.. so every few weekends they'll pop up on sale for $29....

They are still, no matter who you get them from, as far as control boards go, pretty crappy.

I was in a similar pickle several years ago a lightning strike power surge took out the control board of a couple of hobby machines. (mini mill mini lathe)   one of the techs at worked helped me diagnose and fix them. It cost me  $15 to fix the two .
Tin

http://printrbot.com/shop/printrbot-printrboard/

If Solidoodle offers their firmware.  You can get a board that is similar to the current board for around $125 on E-bay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Reprap-PrintrBo … 4d2193e8bd

This is the same board that both Solidoodle and PrintRbot use on their machines, yet of course they have had their company name silk screen printed on the board.

First of all I feel your pain spending $ 800 then having to spend another $200 on a board ouch.

I purchased my soliddoodle used off E-Bay  it was sold as appears to be in god condition but not tested I get it an no power supply I was fortunate the e-bay seller backed his sale and refunded the cost of the PS.
But I could have been in the same boat buy a PS and then find a dead board.
this is a tough situation. On one hand  if you buy something new you expect it to work for a reasonable amount of time without failure and if it does fail you expect factory help.
On the other hand lets face it low cost 3-d printers are a new sunrise industry. Say you spend  3 grand for a makerbot  that uses $500 worth of parts.  Makerbot now has a margin  to pay for testing and qc of parts . they can afford to replace defective and broken parts money for marketing R&D etc.

Now look at a soliddoole  3 that sells for $600 and uses aprox $400 in parts.  soliddoodle is on a tight margin. there is 1/10th the resources to test parts and cover defective ones.

Good bad or indifferent hobby machines are often pre assembled kits they need tinkering and upgrades.

Those of us in the home machining hobby run into similar problems. Some of the better vendors freely replace parts but it still up to the owner to install them.

So the takeaway here is what are you expecting when you buy a 3d printer.  If you are expecting a 1 year warranty buy from a company that offers a 1 year warranty.  If you want low price shop for that.  list the features you want and compare product.

IMHO soliddoodle and most of the builders of sub $1000 3d printers expect the user to tinker upgrade repair etc. 

In my situation I am not afraid to fix tinker adjust a machine but I did not at this point in life want to build from scratch.
Although building from scratch allowed full understanding of every part in the machine how it is assembled and how to fix it if it breaks. 
Also  the one downside of the sd main board is it is one unit. the ramps card hs plug in drivers blow a diver pluf in a new one and the driver chips are only $5-10 each depending on where you buy.

Many of the kits tell you to print spare axis parts and connectors as soon as you can after getting set up and printing. What other product tells you make your own spares.

Hope you can find a affordable board.
Tin