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In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, Microsoft said it is seeking more than US$2 million in damages from DHL for two containers of Xbox 360 consoles that sustained "impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage" after a derailment near Duke, Texas. The Xboxes were en route from a Microsoft office in McAllen, Texas, to Long Beach, California, for eventual delivery to Hong Kong at the time of the loss, which occurred on Oct. 13, 2007, according to court papers. Flextronics Industrial in Hong Kong was the intended recipient. Microsoft claims that DHL has refused to compensate it for the loss, even though the delivery service "negligently breached its duties as a common carrier, handler, bailee, warehouseman, agent, or in other capabilities," according to the court papers. DHL could not be reached for comment Friday. Microsoft's latest console was also the center of recent controversy in Colorado, where a man was indicted on Sept. 23 for illegally reselling both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 systems. According to the U.S. State Attorney's Office in the District of Colorado, 27-year-old Yewchoo Ng of Boulder purchased the consoles at Target, Amazon.com, Buy.com, Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears and Wal-mart using several credit cards. He took the consoles out of the boxes, removed the serial numbers, put those numbers on older, inoperable consoles, and returned those consoles to the retail outlets, according to the state attorney's office. The retail and online outlets lost $182,001 as a result of the scam, the office said. Ng also sold the new consoles online via e-Bay and other auction and shopping sites for his own personal profit.



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Wow! Thats all i can say.



LOL!! Ng FTW!!!



Well, that's one way to sell 21,000 360's in one shot. When this lawsuit finalizes, I wonder if NA numbers will reflect a 21K jump that same week in ioi's numbers....XD.....sweet!!



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Yeah DHL sucks, we've used them before at work. They like to mess up and transfer our overnight packages to USPS rather than deliver them to use within 24 hours and the not compensate use for the massive difference in shipping costs.



LOL, that's not too far from where I live, but very sad.



Waiting...waiting...waiting...waiting patiently for MH3 : p

 

 

.........Why were they en route from TEXAS to HONG KONG?

If anything, you'd think it was the other way around.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

honeslty thats what you get for using dhl, ive seen them desroty stuff inside super protective boxes... they re worse than the usps



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Eh, if this happened in 2007, odds are that only 7,200 of those would've worked anyways LOL



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