You wont find a decent rod warranty anymore because fishermen have abused the bejesus out of them. Not saying thats the case here, but overall years of dishonesty have lead to this. Same reason Cabelas and Academy have had to rethink their return policies, a guy closes his rod box on a $150 road and takes it back to the store and exchanges it for a brand new rod stating it was defective...

My whole point there is its not a company refusing to stand behind their product, its simply companies trying to protect themselves from the abuse consumers put on warranty programs.

The rest of the story is the rod was less than a year old and it was a middle eye it's not the end eye and it was purchased new but the customer service guy didn't ask any of those questions so apparently that doesn't matter they're not going to warranty anything no matter what the case is unless you want to fix it yourself

With you providing the guide its only a $5-10 job at a rod shop and will look factory done. WAY cheaper than paying to ship a rod there and back.

You wont find a decent rod warranty anymore because fishermen have abused the bejesus out of them. Not saying thats the case here, but overall years of dishonesty have lead to this. Same reason Cabelas and Academy have had to rethink their return policies, a guy closes his rod box on a $150 road and takes it back to the store and exchanges it for a brand new rod stating it was defective...

My whole point there is its not a company refusing to stand behind their product, its simply companies trying to protect themselves from the abuse consumers put on warranty programs.