On October 21, 2007, one of DHL’s trains going from McAllen, Texas, to Long Beach, California derailed and as a consequence 21,600 Xbox 360 consoles got “destroyed” in the accident. Those consoles were going to be shipped to Flextronics Industrial Co. in Honk Kong, China who were the intended recipient. A year later Microsoft has decided to sue DHL for $2 Million dollars due to “impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage” that the consoles suffered during the accident. Not only that, but DHL has refused to compensate Microsoft for the lost even thought they “negligently breached its duties as a common carrier, handler, bailee, warehouseman, agent, or in other capabilities.” the court says. DHL has not yet commented about the suit. No wonder why many people complain about broken 360’s.
This isn’t the first time Microsoft has been in court because of the 360. On September 23 a 27 year old man was illegaly re-selling used consoles he bought from different distributors (Amazon.com, Best Buy, Circuit City etc.) took the serial number out and paste it on the old and inoperable, and then would give them back to the distributors or sell them online as new. The scam cost to the distributors was over $182,000 dollars.
Source:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/14/microsoft_dhl_xbox/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152173/.html?tk=rss_news
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9117022&source=rss_news
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