if you google it, "warranty void if removed" stickers are illegal in the USA.
 

Most consumers don't know that these stickers are actually illegal—and that's because manufacturers don't want you to. Under the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Feds mandated that you can open your electronics without voiding the warranty, regardless of what the language of your warranty says
 

What's EVGA's official stance on this?

kdawg6969
 
if you google it, "warranty void if removed" stickers are illegal in the USA.
 

Most consumers don't know that these stickers are actually illegal—and that's because manufacturers don't want you to. Under the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Feds mandated that you can open your electronics without voiding the warranty, regardless of what the language of your warranty says
 

What's EVGA's official stance on this?

It’s pretty straight forward, if a user removes the serial number stickers, the warranty is void. There is a primary sticker on the backplate which clearly states warranty void if removed, and then there are two stickers on the pci connector section of the card, which are required to stay on the card and are not visible when the GPU is installed.

None of those stickers are located over a screw or joint, so doing service on the product will not require their removal. “Warranty void if removed” stickers are only illegal if they block the end user from doing maintenance on a product. Since EVGA doesn’t do this, there is no law being broken by requiring end users to leave the serial number stickers in place at all times.

What is your question outside of that?

To be fair to the OP, the SC15 does have a "warranty void if removed" sticker (NOT tamper-evident sticker) over the top of one of the motherboard screws which prevents disassembly without destroying that sticker, but as far as I know, EVGA has never tried to legally enforce it. I think enforcement of an anti-consumer stance is what matters legally-speaking. The SC15 was manufactured before the law was enacted, wasn't it? If so, you kind of have to give EVGA a pass, right? Especially if there is no documented proof of EVGA giving anyone a hard time about that sticker being tampered with.

I do wonder what the OP's point is. I wonder their perspective. This has been discussed to death already. All other reasons for voiding a warranty are allowed, right? As said, EVGA's serial number sticker doesn't prevent servicing the card, and serves a purpose of proving purchase and legal ownership. That being said, the lack of the duplicate sticker(s) by the PCI-E connector is a real pathetic excuses for voiding a warranty. The one serial number sticker should be plenty (and was plenty until recent greedy tactics were exploited). The one serial number sticker says void if removed, and that is the only sticker that should be enforced.

ty_ger07
I do wonder what the OP's point is. I wonder their perspective. This has been discussed to death already. All other reasons for voiding a warranty are allowed, right? As said, EVGA's serial number sticker doesn't prevent servicing the card, and serves a purpose of proving purchase and legal ownership. That being said, the lack of the duplicate sticker(s) by the PCI-E connector is a real pathetic excuses for voiding a warranty. The one serial number sticker should be plenty (and was plenty until recent greedy tactics were exploited). The one serial number sticker says void if removed, and that is the only sticker that should be enforced.

The only sticker that says void if removed is on a backplate, which can be moved to any product, even a product that isn’t what it says it is, and the second sticker is in no way visible to the end user when installed, even though a few people remove the pci serial number stating it bothers them… which is just… no.

Since the backplate can be transferred to numerous PCB’s, the “only warranty void if removed” sticker isn’t the only one that should be trusted. The pci serial numbers are just as important.

The second serial number sticker on the pci, that doesn’t match the EVGA serial number, is from the factory itself, and is required to stay so that if EVGA has to send the product back to the factory, they are able to use the warranty information the factory provided.

So yeah, three stickers are required to stay and all three are just as important.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ftc-warranty-stickers-illegal/