4:45 AM on 12.11.2006
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Niero
This is a tragic tale of an unwanted Xbox 360 that was whisked away on an Ebay auction, never made it past the new owner's dog, and was returned to sender. Ben writes:
Yesterday I received a phone call from the UPS store indicating that I needed to come in and pick up a package that they’d been holding me for a few weeks. Curious, I decided to hightail it over to the store asap and see what was up ... My suspicions were confirmed. It was my XBox 360 magically shipped back to me after the “Dog tore up package”. I asked the guy behind the counter why it had been shipped back to me and he had no idea. It had been shipped over a month ago though and was definitely supposed to go back to me. I was almost too afraid to open the package, but once I did, I knew I’d need to photoblog it.
Luckily the buyer was sensible enough to take care of the insurance claim with UPS returned some usable parts back to Ben. He hopes to rebuild the controller and his own 250 Watt homebrew power supply. In the end everyone wins -- Ben got his money, a half chewed console, the buyer and his dog got their money, and nobody's been arrested for a brilliant insurance fraud scheme yet. The only one that lost out was the poor Xbox 360 -- it sucks 2BU!
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... Okay, that was a bit harsh. Sowwee. >_<
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Ben, I hope no one from UPS comes knocking at your door for the money or the ID of the other person.
Other guy's 360 gets eaten: OMFG how could he defraud UPS?!
Your 360 gets busted: How can I blame this on someone else..
Everyone does this. This is what insurance is for. Maybe not -specifically-, but insurance is such a racket, they can easily afford a small percentage of cases like this. In fact, they budget for it. You know those extended warranties from Best Buy/etc.? Same damn thing. If you don't try to screw a corporation that could possibly be held liable for damaged stuff, you just aren't getting your money's worth.
Just because everyone else does it or you can get away with screwing the "evil corporation" is a crap excuse for doing something like this. Whatever happened to personal responsibility. If the guy can't train his dog to not chew shit up, he should know better than to have stuff left a his door. All he had to do was pick up the phone after he got his tracking number and call UPS and have them either hold it at the depot or deliver it elsewhere. Unless UPS tied a steak to the package it's not their problem. It's people with this guys attitude that has turned insurance into the expensive joke it is.
".. telling me that the UPS delivery man had left the package that contained the 360 on his back porch and his dog got to it before he had. (...) The man told me he’d just deal with UPS insurance and would give me a positive rating on eBay as this clearly was not my fault. Case closed."
It's not a question of evil. The fault is totally on the delivery guy's part. I had a replacement hard drive shipped once and UPS delivered it to my neighbor because I wasn't there to receive it.
I mean.. if that happened to me, sure, I'd sign my real name and not fill the hard drive with horse porn or something like that.