Buying a used camera. Waranty?

[Azzure_7]

I'm thinking of buying a used camera recently, but I had some questions about the warranty policy that I need to verify. I don't have the best English so please don't ask me to read the warranty policies on canon cause I had tried.
Just want to ask how the warranty goes?
From what I've learnt, it's only one year.I'm talking abt USA warranty.
Then is it possible to hand over the owner's name?
So what will hapen if after a year and your gear goes wrong? Bring to canon and fix it?
Thanks in advance.

[Pete]

If you buy a camera that is less than a year old and you have the original sales reciept and Canon warranty card, then the warranty will last a year from when the camera was first bought.

If there are problems after the first year, you will have to pay for them to be repaired. Luckily, Canon equipment is fairly reliable, so you should be ok.

Hope that answers your question.

[gjl711]

Not to pick nits, but the warrantee is a year from original purchase and I am not all that sure that you can transfer the original warrantee from individual to individual. Maybe if you received all of the original paperwork Canon would honor the warrantee but Iam not sure. But assuming that they do and you are buying from a private party, it does not reset the warrantee period to a year for you. If the camera is already a year old, it is no longer under Canon’s warrantee. If you are buying a used camera from a store who is offering a one year warrantee period, that is going to be the store’s own program, not Canon’s unless there is some agreement between the two. But in either case, once you are outside of the warrantee period, Canon will fix the equipment for a price.