The purpose of this statement is to assist customers in cases of product malfunction. These come in packaging suitable for store shelves and contain a statement of warranty by the manufacturer. Some other products may also be retail products but these should be considered, case by case, by inspection of the product. This includes hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, cdrom drives, memory and most processors. In most cases these products are not accompanied by a statement of warranty.
Retail warranties begin when the product is sold.
You should keep your receipt as evidence of the purchase date. You are responsible for adminsitration of retail warranties. OEM warranties are arcane and variable. Hard drive warranties usually begin in the month the drive was manufactured. The length of your warranty depends on the length of time the product spent in the distribution chain and the length of time it spent on our shelf.