Taken from the warranty policy of FP:
[quote]Within these two years, consumers can request the seller to acknowledge the defects and/or the lack of conformity. As a consequence, the seller will have to repair, replace or refund the price of the product in question, following the process below:
- The seller must be notified of defects within two months of their discovery.
- With some exceptions, defects that become apparent within six months of delivery are presumed to have existed at the moment of delivery (i.e. they were manufacturing defects). If the seller disagrees, it must prove through technical diagnosis that they were not manufacturing defects.
- After six months from delivery, defects that become apparent are no longer presumed to be manufacturing defects and thus the consumer has to prove they are.
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I don’t think that it has to be dead on arrival. As the warranty policy states, the consumer, who suspects to have manufacturing defects, which appear after six month from delivery, only has to prove that they really are manufacturing defects. IMO a bloated battery is a very strong indication for a manufacturing defect. Clearly it is not apparent at delivery, but develops later.