Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

podcast.play.date

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 106 posts

Re: Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

#31

Post by sweetjuly »

raybb wrote: post #24
gambiting wrote: post #13

The thing that surprised me the most about it is that FedEx didn't just pay them the 400k for lost shipment. They had all the proof that it was lost, all that Fedex had was a signature of someone who doesn't even work at their fulfilment centre. Even after their "higher ups" got involved all that FedEx could do was "huh, sucks to be you I guess?" Does freight shipment not have insurance? What's going on here?

Would playdate be able to sue FedEx or take them to small claims court or do you sign something when you use FedEx that says you can't sue them for XYZ?

$400k is quite a bit more than they typically let you pursue in small claims court :)

Re: Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

#32

Post by forrestthewoods »

vlaaad wrote: post #25

[flagged]

This is getting downvoted but I actually quite appreciated it. Story is interesting enough I'll listen to the whole podcast! I can't do that for every single podcast link that I come across. There's not enough time in the year much less the day.

Re: Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

#34

Post by nkrisc »

cr3ative wrote: post #5
bmalum wrote: post #2

Surprised by HN again. 1st Place „Story“, wanted to read because no headphones with me, ending up reading a podcast transcript, and TL,DR out.

The transcript was a good read, I also don’t prefer audio. Admittedly I can skim read quite well though.

I found it a miserable read. It’s a pain to get through all the tic words and aborted sentences, I gave up very soon after starting.

Re: Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

#37

Post by madeofpalk »

Maxious wrote: post #20
InsideOutSanta wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of the recent story where an Uber courier stole two MacBooks, there was no signature, CCTV showing no delivery, and Apple was just like "our carrier has completed the requested investigation, and no further action will be taken by Apple."

Back in the old days Apple Security was ruthless about tracking down lost hardware https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/sep/01/apple-sta... These days you have to beg them to take their proprietary prototype hardware back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgeEHdAmJDg

I mean, I'm sure Apple's still the same for their own stuff.

But retail is a whole different beast.

Re: Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

#38

Post by Cthulhu_ »

LeonidasXIV wrote: post #23
Hackbraten wrote: post #21

Love this quote in particular: > Thanks so much for listening, and please don’t steal our Playdates. Because we will find you.

Allegedly.

I wonder where to put it though.

> Thanks so much for alledgedly listening

> please don’t alledgedly steal our Playdates.

> please don’t steal our alledged Playdates.

> Because we will alledgedly find you.

Re: Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

#40

Post by traverseda »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #32
vlaaad wrote: post #25

[flagged]

This is getting downvoted but I actually quite appreciated it. Story is interesting enough I'll listen to the whole podcast! I can't do that for every single podcast link that I come across. There's not enough time in the year much less the day.

Yeah, hn will just downvote anything with the word ai-generated in it blindly.
Post reply on HN