Sven Golly wrote:

In addition,
they'll make sure forward pressure is set correctly, verify release and
indemnify the installation.

The binding manufacturer indemnifies the shop against a customer's legal
claims. It's not the customer that gets indemnified.

The indemnification issue is why shops won't work on non-indemnified
bindings; it's NOT because the binding is necessarily suddenly bad or is
too old. It's just that the binding manufacturer doesn't want to back it
anymore, and the reason could be engineering or it could be marketing
(i.e. they want you to discard perfectly good bindings and buy new.) If
you look at an indemnification list, some manufacturers stand by their
bindings much longer than other manufacturers, and I don't believe it's
engineering. One company might try to sell more bindings by moving their
recent past issues off the list; another company might try to sell more
bindings by demonstrating longivity and sound engineering.

Last year's list
http://www.snowtradenews.com/stn/retailers/article/0,12902,355415,00.html

Anybody know where this year's list is?