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From: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 70 refund field
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:56:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lh4nma$h3e$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5335BD17.6050408@plan99.net>

On 03/28/2014 07:19 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:

>> Ok, why don't fix this in the spec for now, by defining a fixed expiry
>> time. In the EU, most products are covered by a 2 years warranty, so it
>> seems appropriate to pick 2.5 years (30 months) -- allowing for some
>> time to ship the product back and forth.
>
> Yeah I was thinking something like that on the walk home. But 2 years is
> a long time. Do we have enough RAM for that?

It depends on usage stats, script size, etc...

> Plus warranties usually
> result in the defective goods being replaced rather than a monetary
> refund, right?

Usually yes. The next smaller "unit of time" in Germany would be two
weeks, the so-called "Fernabsatzgesetz". It allows you to send back
mail-orders and usually you want the money back. Don't know if that made
it into EU law or how it applies to other countries.






  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-28 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-28 11:07 [Bitcoin-development] BIP 70 refund field Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 11:25 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-28 11:31   ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 16:59     ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-28 18:19       ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 20:56         ` Andreas Schildbach [this message]
2014-03-29  9:27           ` Roy Badami
2014-03-29 13:29             ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-30 17:21               ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-03-28 11:38   ` Wladimir
2014-03-28 11:45     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 11:46       ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 11:54         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 12:27           ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 12:55             ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 13:00               ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 13:09                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 11:30 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 13:18   ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 14:01     ` Gavin Andresen
2014-03-28 14:06       ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 14:27       ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 15:23         ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 15:26           ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-28 16:34             ` Mike Hearn
2014-03-28 16:45               ` Tamas Blummer
2014-03-31  9:23 ` Peter Todd

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