Comments on: Buying a Laptop from Another Country

By: Mohammed Sameer

Mohammed Sameer — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:27:35 +0000

I have no idea but I’ve been trying to get any info from the support:

Just for sharing:
“The only way to confirm that a model has warranty in Finland, is to take the first 4 digits of the model number and see if it is available on the Lenovo Finland website.
Systems that begin with 8744 come with a complete international warranty, and will be covered in Finland.

Seems the only model I’ll get will cost the same amount of money like in Finland. I’ll only get better specs that I won’t use :)

Cheers.

By: etbe

etbe — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:06:48 +0000

Mohammed: I’ve bought Thinkpads in Australia, the US, and the Netherlands and had them serviced in other countries without any problem. It could be that they have changed their policy or that Canada is different somehow.

Maybe try buying it in the US if Canada won’t work - it’s not that difficult to get stuff from the US if you are in Canada.

By: Mohammed Sameer

Mohammed Sameer — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:29:25 +0000

Are you sure it’s worldwide ? I’m trying to get a lenovo from Canada but it has 3 years of limited warranty. I asked the support if the warranty will be available in Finland and they said no!

I’d really appreciate any tips ?

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By: etbe

etbe — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:52:29 +0000

Anon: you are correct that people don’t tend to get caught about such things. But as the companies that sell laptops have databases tracking where they were sold it wouldn’t be impossible for the tax office to track these things down. So blogging about beating the tax-man in this regard would be a bad idea.

For the record when I bought Thinkpads in this manner I was living in the Netherlands. I really doubt that the Dutch authorities are going to try and extradite me for this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:13:05 +0000

Yeah, and in theory the same thing applies to people who live in a state with sales tax and buy goods out of state. Good luck with that.

By: glandium

glandium — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:34:23 +0000

Note that when you come back to your “home” country with your brand new laptop, you’re supposed to declare it to the customs, and pay taxes (usually VAT + some other tax).