The $54 Million Laptop 502
Stanislav_J writes "It happens to the best of us: you drop off your laptop at the local branch of some Super Mega Electronics McStore, go to pick it up, and they can't find it. Lost, gone, kaput — probably sucked into a black hole and now breeding with lost airline luggage. It would make any of us mad, but Raelyn Campbell of Washington, D.C. isn't just mad — she's $54 million mad. That's how much she is asking from Best Buy in a lawsuit that seeks 'fair compensation for replacement of the $1,100 computer and extended warranty, plus expenses related to identity theft protection.' Best Buy claims that Ms. Campbell was offered and collected $1,110.35 as well as a $500 gift card for her inconvenience. (I guess that extra 35 cents wasn't enough to sway her.) Her blog claims that Geek Squad employees spent three months telling her different stories about where her laptop might be before finally acknowledging that it had been lost. For those who follow economic trends, this means that a laptop's worth is roughly equivalent to that of a pair of pants."
If a single .MP3 is worth... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mod Parent Up (Score:5, Funny)
You mean, "free advertisement for Best Buy has already been done"
With the current reputation of Best Buy or PC World it is not like you can damage it any further. That will require using irrational numbers and complex math to compute it.
I ran into difficulties with Best Buy ... (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe I should sue Best Buy for their disciminatory ass-kissing policy
Re:Read what she's gone through? (Score:5, Funny)
Price quotes... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Read what she's gone through? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Read what she's gone through? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Tenleytown Best Buy! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not any more unrealistic than the MPAA's figure (Score:3, Funny)
The second is potentially much more damaging. I'm sure some geeksquad employee stole it, probably reinstalled windows, and uses it to browse 4chan all evening. But we don't know that for sure.
Depends on who gets to do the pricing (Score:5, Funny)
She only had about 50 songs on there, but she was using the prices put forward by the RIAA's lawsuits.
Re:Read what she's gone through? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:She's a loon. (Score:1, Funny)
No Employee of the Month? (Score:5, Funny)
Did this incident break your streak of Employee of the Month?
Re:Read what she's gone through? (Score:5, Funny)