Does the principle of "buyer beware" apply to this type of product?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kulcsar v. Sadykow, 2019 BCCRT 1138 (CanLII):
17. The principle of “buyer beware” applies to this type of situation, unless a buyer can establish that a seller negligently or purposely misrepresented the state of the item sold in relation to a problem that the buyer could not have discovered for themselves (see, for example, Vershinin et al v. Amnibahksh et al, 2009 BCPC 175 at paragraph 3).
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