Do you ever buy equipment and it breaks down? It's covered under warranty but you don't know,
you don't have the proof of purchase and you don't really know where to claim. I'm
going to show you in this video my simple system for registering things for warranty.
Now stick around. I'm going to give you a bonus tip at the end which will help you,
especially if you have some sort of tragedy such as a fire or a theft. Hey what does this and this
and this have in common? Well, we bought all three of them between my wife and I. We bought
all three of those in the last couple of weeks. You usually buy equipment. You're
probably buying little things for your computer, for your house, for your home, for your car,
little bits and pieces right? But what happens when they start to break or when you need to get
a repair? You need to get a replacement. Well, usually, depending on the equipment, they're
usually under warranty. But have you registered for warranty? Of course you haven't! You usually
don't do that. So here's what I do: really, really simple. So I've got my little microphone
here with this. It's, it's a hat. It's actually a wind protector to stop the wind. That could be
actually when I buy things. I have a little system set up; very, very simple. What I do is first I
open a Google Doc and I save the receipt. Okay, so I save the docket that I've got from the company,
wherever it is, to say “hey, this is what I've bought. Here's the proof of purchase.” Now usually
you'll register online as well. Doesn't take too long to do. Once again, they're going to want to
know the date of purchase. The reason that I've got it for this that's just a cheap light globe,
but yeah. This one we bought three of them. We had some nice lights set up in our kitchen,
and one of them started to fail. When my wife went back to the shop and to buy a replacement she said
it's under warranty. Well, of course, we didn't have the receipt. We didn't have it and so we just
bought the new one. But now, because I've got a system, because it's so easy, I set it up. I
create a Google Doc, so it's nice and easy, stored on Google Drive. Nice and free. And then, all I do
is I register it; register the warranty. Even for cheap items, but this is a good habit to get into.
And then I keep track of the instructions. So, for example, we got a new pool chlorinator and they
gave us a bit of instruction…sort of 20 minutes’ explanation. “Here's how to use it. Here's how to
clean it. This is what you should do every few months. And register it for warranty.” Well it
was more than a thousand dollars to get that all bought, so we might as well register it. And then,
what I do is I've got in the one document or in the one Google Drive, here is where,
here's how to set it all up. Here's what I need to do to maintain it. And now it's a
good idea to include the website, maybe of the manufacturer or the place that you bought the
product. Online manuals, documentation. A link to their YouTube channel. And, for that matter,
you can even record your own videos on how to set it up and link to to those videos. You can
make them unlisted or private videos on your own YouTube channel and that makes it nice and
easy for you to find the documentation when you need it. And then (you're going to like this!)
I might even set myself a reminder when it's coming up to the end of the warranty to say:
“Okay. The warranty is coming up in-say it's a 12 month warranty or a three year warranty-I'll set
myself a reminder for maybe a month or two before and then I've got to decide: “Am I going to renew
the warranty on that? Extend the warranty? Probably not. Am I going to replace it? I'm
only going to replace the item. Yep maybe hey it's time. Or maybe I'll just let the warranty expire
and I keep using the thing. Or maybe I'm going to just get rid of the thing. I think I just never
use it or maybe sell it up on Facebook Marketplace or something like that. So, this very, very simple
system you set up a Google Doc. You scan in your receipt. You register the warranty and
then you've got it all in the one place. A bonus here is that if you ever have some tragedy in your
home-for example you have a fire or something like that-you need to claim on insurance,
you have got all of those documents all in the one place, stored on Google Drive or on Dropbox
or somewhere else. So that you it makes it easier for you to claim. So let me know in the comments
do you ever register for warranties yourself and do you have a system in place to do that?