I hope so, I took a FP item in for repair to my local outlet, I had ordered directly from JAX and the manager gave me a hard time about sending it in.I reminded her that FP is almost 3 hrs away.I don't think that will be true. Wherever you buy it, that is where you have to return it.
The crazy thing is that when I got it back they didn't touch the repair (replace chipped hardware) and they smeared edge coat across it. They had,me send it back and replaced it. I suppose that hardware will chip too. Hopefully not. It is a butterscotch Nomad.