Vizio No warranty support, Internet

I received a Vizio vtab1008 as a gift in April 2012, it is currently September 2012  In the beginning of the month the device stopped booting and displayed only a white screen, a few days later it would not turn on.

I called Vizio tech support, gave them all the device information serial number etc, and they told me they could not honor the warranty unless I could provide the name of the store it was purchased from, which i explained I did not know because it was a gift. They told me there was nothing they could do.

Now i'm stuck with a non working tablet, that the manufacturer, won't repair/replace because I can't tell them what store it came from. Their lack of customer service has lost them a customer forever. Vizio Case # 2776282