Illegal?

Is Rebuilding My Battery Pack Illegal?

Bull#$*&, Cough, Cough. NO. When you make a purchase you own the purchased item, and it is yours to do with as You wish. We will ask you: If you purchase an automobile, the automobile goes out of warranty, and then the engine must be replaced; Will it be illegal for you to purchase an engine and hire someone to pull the defective engine and install the replacement engine of a 3500 pound vehicle capable of going 100+ miles per hour?

When you ask the trusted advise of your original vendor about replacing the battery insert in an out of warranty battery pack; if the salespersons response to you, the consumer, attempting to use your limited budget wisely, goes something like, (we think replacing the battery pack might even be illegal); Well, what does that really say about the vendor? And is that vendor cost efficient or environmentally friendly? Or, does that attitude show excessive cost to you and force you to be another member of a throw-away society?

When any vendor places special technology into their product seeking to restrict the rebuilding of their expensive product, costing you much money over a career; and enforcing a "throw-away society", should that vendor make easily available the techniques to bypass any attempted restrictions allowing continued using all of the products features after you rebuild the product?

Note: If You ever have a vendor trying to monopolize a market or hinting that rebuilding your battery is illegal; You should start considering other primary vendors of that type new item immediately for the time when you will need to purchase new units of that type.

Be Pro-Active. Tell the vendor how you feel and support your feeling by communicating throughout your company headquarters and by considering other vendors of the same product immediately. You are the one who will be hurt the worst if You ever allow any vendor to attempt this. It is Your money that controls any market. What happens is because of the stand You take.

Lithium Ion Broadcast Batteries

Illegal?

Last Revised September 09, 2002