I had a similar experience. I had DLP bulb burn out in less than a year. The original item claimed to have a 1 year warrantee. So I went through ever means possible to find the contact info for the seller to make a claim. Sure enough, there wasn't any. I wrote up a review indicating that it's falsely advertising a warrantee. In no time it was rejected. It seems that Amazon has a policy or practices that makes it really, really hard to post a negative review and not have it rejected.