Microsoft sues DHL after train dumps 21,600 Xboxes

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.

[Internet Trolling Ex]

The Xboxes were dead before being dropped,so they should be thanking DHL instead

[the bubble repo guy]

both of your bubbles are forfeit.

[GiantEnemyLobster]

Sony is getting so desperate to defeat XBOX®360, that they are attacking anything that ships XBOX®360 so Microsoft can't get the sales. LOL, keep trying sony!!

[Pain]

would seem fair.

and wow already at 2 bubs/ eh ITE? and yet a bot like crap.eerr Crab is still with his...hmm shocking...

[gambare]

LOL the train RRoD

[Lucas22]

maybe those were the xbox 360 that had jasper chips. Hopefully not

[nbsmatambo]

shipping is getting really unreliable these days, my friend just told me he saw the delivery guy open his package...

[rsebes]

I thought insurance was suppose to cover things like accidents. When your shipment gets dropped or damaged in transit, they pay to replace the item. Why does it always seem to come to law suits? (I can see if DHL isn't willing to reimburse)

[meepmoopmeep]

the train RRoD'ed

:)

[Master Debater]

Wow that did not make sense at all but still really funny LMAO

[Nostradavis]

via ripten:

I am praying for some ungodly small fine print that reads something like this:

"DHL is not responsible for damages unless all 4 rings on the front of our train light up red upon impact."

[insert "360 hardware is a train wreck" joke here]

http://www.ripten.com/2008/...

[Ateanboy]

Hell, I don't blame them.... Atleast, the DHL guys that work here in central Florida are ALL PS3 fans. I know this because my job requires me to converse with dozens of them face to face on a daily basis.

Overall they're a bunch of cool dudes. Goofy as hell........but they're good guys. And they LOVE PS3.

I wouldn't be surprised if this "accident" truly happened on purpose. Maybe M$ knows that, and maybe that's why they're suing.

But, I really don't blame them, if it was ME, I would've droven the train right of the tracks and drove it straight into its demise.

I would consider myself a hero... Saving hundreds of people from buying a mediocre product and saving them the hassle of inevitably getting RROD.

[crystallakekiller]

if you REALLY want to help people..its really simple for you,just stop talking! or maybe not...some people feels good when they hear retards like you speak,it makes them realize they are lucky to be normal!

[TheDude2dot0]

Wow good one crystallakekiller. That showed him.

[JBaby343]

Like they wouldn't have broke anyway. This just saves time.

[deeznuts]

Lol, it's like Final Destination. Even if they avoided death by derailment, the boogie man going to get them later anyway, one by one!

On a serious note. DHL sucks. really bad. They are the worst carrier ever.

[socomnick]

DHL is a horrible shipper. Anytime I order anything they are always late . UPS and fedex all the way.

[Nitrowolf2]

i never even heard of this, i only use UPS well until the guy dropped one of our package out of his truck

[Bnet343]

I prefer UPS. FedEx always leaves their damn doortags.

[thereapersson]

I find that UPS always manages to send packages in boxes that have been crushed or damaged in some manner.

[Bubble Buddy]

You know the Fedex logo has an arrow? AHA. Anyways, I use UPS or Fedex, sometimes Purolator (Canada).

[thereapersson]

Are you people there whenever I receive packages, ready to inspect them for damage? I don't think so!

[TrenchaunT]

I use the Postral Service...since most of the boxes I send are books (media mail ftw)

[TheDude2dot0]

UPS is the one that sends the least broken boxes for me. I know the guy that made Fedex, but every time I got a shipment, the box was damaged in some way.

[ICUP]

Does that count as sold?

[thereapersson]

But they still count them as being "shipped", which companies will also use to trick the consumer into thinking they are doing better than they are.

[Xheratuul]

suspected as taliban bombs.

[Raoh]

damn thats terrible news....

i'm really saddened by this

you can tell by my sad smiley

:(

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[Bubble Buddy]

Your name and avatar is cool. :D

[kewlkat007]

It wasn't the worst experience but I like me my UPS/FEDex.

[dkgshiz]

Oh well, they would of just RROD. Either way microsoft should of used FedEx.

[bouncybullet]

$2 million in xboxes..

If they were PS3s it would be $4 million.

Damn.

[IzKyD1331]

if they weren't gonna break on the train they would've broken anyway in everyone's homes......im 33% sure of it

/small joke, don't send death threats please

[the bubble repo guy]

they don't send death threats... just me.

[va_bank]

OK... So many comments... must resist...

Best joke about this wins bubbles from me!

EDIT: Never mind, just saw the Open Zone, gonna go read there.

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

DHL Starting to hate the 360 now?

Btw, UPS all the way.

[thewhoopimen]

UPS is absolute crap. I had 3 packages lost within a span of 6-7 months and I had to fill out long ass forms and wait 2 months just to get reimbursement... each

[PS3Freak]

At least there wasn't any discs inside. We all know what happens when 360 are shook or knocked over with a disc inside.

[bouncybullet]

How many retards do you know that knock over expensive electronic devices normally..?

If only sony hadn't hadn't started the whole standing console crap..
(ps1 after a while only worked on its side.)

[Zulwarn]

...........ALL droids are unemployed

[the bubble repo guy]

your bubbles are forfeit. you can get them back when you grow a brain...

edit: i'm actually not an unemployed droid... i have a job and don't even own a ps3, just a 360.

[Zulwarn]

nah ill make another ID instead of make 599 accounts to give myself bubble's like you unemployed droids ;)

[thereapersson]

Creating another ID and making other accounts to bubble yourself is the same damn thing, you f*cking moron

[PS3Freak]

YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FU*K OUT! (Anyone who has seen the friday ice cube movies will know what i mean)

[Zulwarn]

"Creating another ID and making other accounts to bubble yourself is the same damn thing, you f*cking moron"

when did i say I would make multiple id's & give myself bubbles? you think i will go through all that crap for bubble's? lmao im not an unemployed droid with infinite time on my hands like yourself
learn to read or dont bother replying you blind moron

@ps3freak18
"YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FU*K OUT!" (Anyone who has seen the friday ice cube movies will know what i mean)

stop dreaming about other males f@gg0t unlike you i dont knock another male or watch g@y prono's

@thereapersson
making another id to use and making multiple ones to give myself bubbles are two different things blind blind droid :(
*edit*
lol you even quoted my post and you still fail to see "INSTEAD"

[thereapersson]

"nah ill make another ID instead of make 599 accounts to give myself bubble's like you unemployed droids ;)"

"nah, i'll make another ID" <------ RIGHT F*CKING THERE.

God, you are f*cking DENSE. When you run out of bubbles, you will just create another ID and continue trolling. That's what you are saying. How the f*ck does someone make a statement that they don't even understand the meaning of?

[Zulwarn]

indeed YOU cant make statement not with your dumb droid logic

after all im not unemployed pathetic droid who would go through tons of ID's just for bubbles ha!

[thereapersson]

You are a hopeless case. I forgot, trying to argue with an idiot usually ends up causing nothing but grief...

[ICUP]

What can Brown Do For You?

[ambientFLIER]

I'm a UPS driver and I can tell you that DHL won't be around for much longer anymore. They have already cut down their operations in many areas and are considering withdrawing from the US market completely by January. They just can't compete anymore, amazingly enough, even with the German Government support.

[robotnik]

DHL pressnote:

Nothing important was lost.

[PS3Freak]

DHL replies to critisism about their shipping abilities:

"We broke the track"

[Ogrekiller]

So that's what $ony's doing to counter MS. Interesting tactic.

[likedamaster]

This one was also funny to me...

[Blu Ray3]

trolling N4G Ps3 kids in those boxes.

[Tyrael]

lol thats a shytload of consoles

[Grandreaper9999]

Woahhhh, talk about screw-ups.

[MAGNUM RAM SUPPORT]

fighting corruption day & night.

UPS is getting sued by microsoft too.
its because they were tired of being a xbox360 morgue
& ups refused to change thier image to a xbox360
hospital.

Xbots need dr. Kevorkian

[air1]

lmfao

you ppl are funny

[air1]

good thing it wasnt ps3's

sony would of used that as an excuse to why they got out sold again..

that was close cause i heard the ps3's was in the train behind them. we all know sony need all they got to beat out a 3 year old rrod hardware

[gano]

Someone got mad at there system breaking down too much.

[durran3]

Ohh dam where did they drop all those consoles.. maybe if i could go there get a couple of 360s for me and my friends? :)

[PS360PCROCKS]

They wont win...insurance or not, fedex dropped and shattered my LCD TV and I got NOTHING for it.

[bomboclaat_gamer]

i didnt know PS3 fanboys drive trains too

[devilhunterx]

yea, they have real jobs. Unlike the xb2 fanboys who do nothing but troll online.

[Beforelunch]

Its not like those xboxes wernt going to break sooner or later DHL did a good deed and got it over with faster and saved microsoft the hassel of fixing them =)

[JBaby343]

I wonder if MS will count these as sales? It's not RROD but they are being paid for by DHL. Their questionable sales numbers are well known. Interesting me thinks.

[shamusl93]

I now have a certain love for DHL inside of me.

[AuToFiRE]

i bet you all $20 that microsoft still puts them on store shelves

[VMAN_01]

The best cure for RROD is prevention so in a sense they did the right thing.

[slave2Dcontroller]

We know those were just boxes that were being shipped back to you for repairs! -eNd SaRc-

[Raz]

In a follow-up interview, sources within the company say that DHL is allegedly refusing to reimburse Microsoft for damages because, as one executive put it,
"..you can't damage a piece of crap. It's already worthless."

Sorry, I couldn't resist. ^_^

(Just kiddin' around, mods - the XBOX360 is a competitive console and in no way do I endorse any one brand with this comment. This is not an actual quote from DHL; and was engineered by me, strictly for comedic purposes.)

[likedamaster]

LOL

[moe84]

Win... wait, you took it back. =/

[Raz]

I didn't want a golden joke like that one nixed by the mods for fanboyism - just being careful. ^_^

[xtreampro_REVENGE]

OH! SH1T!!, it was a good thing they dump all of them, cus if 1 of the 360's RROD'ed then it'll trigger a chain reaction and the WHOLE FREAKIN TRAIN WILL GO! BOOOM! BAM! BOOM! BLAH BLAH!!! WAHHHHHHABOOOOOMMMMAAOOSCIVIRH FVFVIHJVREJGIJGIJRVIJFIOVEJRFSF JOPAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!.....*DHL guys trying to call help fom the DHL HQ*....HEEEELEEEELLPPPP! ITS THE R!-R!-O!-Deeee!!!!!.....ITS ATTACKING!!!!....*DHL HQ PERSONEL*.....whats going on! whats happening!...*BACK TO THE TRAIN*.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAHHHHH!!!!!..HEEEEEEEEELLP!!!! ....*MEN SHOUTING IN THE BACK*...SHILD YOUR EYES!!!...NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! !,....*transmition lost*......*STATIC ON RECIEVER*...schschschschschsch schschschschsch................ .....*HQ PERSONEL*...CAN YOU HEAR ME! RESPOND!.....C-A-N! U HEAR ME!!.....we need back up, send in my men,......

[dboyxz]

xtreampro_REVENGE posted OH! SH1T!!, it was a good thing they dump all of them, cus if 1 of the 360's RROD'ed then it'll trigger a chain reaction and the WHOLE FREAKIN TRAIN WILL GO! BOOOM! BAM! BOOM! BLAH BLAH!!! WAHHHHHHABOOOOOMMMMAAOOSCIVIRH FVFVIHJVREJGIJGIJRVIJFIOVEJRFS F JOPAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!.....*DHL guys trying to call help fom the DHL HQ*....HEEEELEEEELLPPPP! ITS THE R!-R!-O!-Deeee!!!!!.....ITS ATTACKING!!!!....*DHL HQ PERSONEL*.....whats going on! whats happening!...*BACK TO THE TRAIN*.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAHHHHH!!!!!..HEEEEEEEEELLP!!! ! ....*MEN SHOUTING IN THE BACK*...SHILD YOUR EYES!!!...NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ! !,....*transmition lost*......*STATIC ON RECIEVER*...schschschschschsch schschschschsch............... . .....*HQ PERSONEL*...CAN YOU HEAR ME! RESPOND!.....C-A-N! U HEAR ME!!.....we need back up, send in my men,......

LOL. This was the funniest post I read so far. Sounds something from bad horror film...

[B_Rian89]

thats why you always ship with fedex!!!

(i work for fedex kinko's)

[lociefer]

think about it , all the 360s wouldve rrod anyways and they would have to be send back to m$ for fixin em , so , m$ would spend more money fixin these consoles over and over , and now that they were dumped or w/e , m$ actually got a good deal , suing them for faulty machines , lollllll

[floppy]

Apparently Microsoft doesn't know about insurance.

[dukadork]

sell them as new, bundled with a towel

[likedamaster]

I hate DHL...they leave all my packages outside, never wait for someone to answer the door and never takes the package back if no one is at home to sign for it. They left many packages outside my door without anyone signing for them and I live in an apartment complex, near some housing projects. I had one nice neighbor give me a package a week later telling me the DHL left it outside on the floor. I had 2 xboxes ship (different times) from them that were left outside on the floor of my apartment. Lucky one of those times my wife had stayed home sick, to later open the door and find the big box outside on the floor (they rang and left). Another time I happen to come home early seeing a big box from them just sitting there. They don't care, i'm not surprised they refused to compensate/reimburse Microsoft. Never again. UPS or fedex.

[Blink_44]

Nice one DHL.

[thewhoopimen]

$2 million / 21,600 = $92.60

Is that the cost per unit to build and package a 360?

[jfrdricks7931]

Never to use DHL. Their trucks are loud (in more ways than one) and they are wreckless drivers.

[jfrdricks7931]

Hate on this site. You people really need to get lives. This site is garbage.

[BYE]

HAHA - it was devine intervention, god came down from heaven and stopped these xboxes.

[Cynical-Gamerzus]

2 Millions is like Bill asking you for 200 Dollars!
What The F is this??
Is MS trying recuperate the money they spent on Jerry Sienfield lol?

This is a joke.Who ever got those 360 systems lying on the ground are lucky.

[moe84]

Not really a fan of M.soft(lol'soft to me), so backing their decision is unsettling. But DHL should have taken care of the issue when they had the chance. I am sure M.soft had insurance or something on the shipping.

DHL, pay up!

UPS--------------->
<-------------FedEx

Take your pick

[Isaac]

Way to blame others for your own misdeeds. If this had happened to PS3 or any Nintendo System they'd still work. Xbox 360s don't even need to be hit to stop working.