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Entry No. 01
Out & about

Which luggage brands actually have a lifetime warranty — and does it survive a gift

Lists of 'lifetime warranty luggage brands' are easy to find and short on one question that matters: does the promise survive the bag changing hands? We read the guarantee pages of three makers this library has already verified clause by clause — Briggs & Riley, Osprey and Gregory — and add the column nobody else runs: first-owner-only, or good for whoever is carrying it.

  • ·out & about
  • ·luggage
  • ·backpack
  • ·lifetime warranty
  • Honest
  • Deep
  • Durable
Entry No. 02
Out & about

Farpoint 40 or 55 — the fifteen litres that change what the bag is

The two Osprey travel packs most often weighed against each other, separated by one number the product pages do not put side by side. The 55 is not a larger 40: it is a 40-litre main pack with a 15-litre daypack zipped to its face, and that daypack takes the depth from 9.1 inches to 18.1. Read from Osprey's own specifications, including the carry-on sentence the two packs do not share.

  • ·out & about
  • ·backpack
  • ·Osprey
  • ·Farpoint
  • Honest
  • Deep
  • Durable
Entry No. 03
Out & about

Osprey vs Gregory — one guarantee names any era, the other names the first owner

Two of the most-compared pack makers, and two guarantee pages that could hardly be more different. Osprey's All Mighty Guarantee repairs or replaces any product from any era at no cost — 1974 or yesterday, receipt or none. Gregory's Limited Lifetime Warranty covers manufacturing defects for the first purchaser, receipt in hand, normal wear excluded in as many words. We read both pages, keep the packs themselves out of a fight we did not test, and let the promises argue.

  • ·out & about
  • ·backpack
  • ·Osprey
  • ·Gregory
  • Durable
  • Honest
  • Deep