USAFRet One and only one warning, to all…. Leave politics out of this. Any further transgressions will be summarily deleted. Reply
GreyOmega Notton said: I would assume it's CBP and not DHL. I wouldn't be sure. Due to the tariffs and end of de minimis exemptions the Japanese retailer I've been ordering anime figures from only offers DHL or ECMS for US shipping. DHL is the most expensive, but fastest shipping and my past experiences had been fine with them. Unfortunately something seems to have changed since like last September, as the last two orders I had shipped with them had shipping boxes in pretty trashed conditions. The last box was practically a soggy mess about to disintegrate when the delivery guy dropped it off and practically tried to flee before I opened the door. He apologized but said that was the condition it was given to him. Thankfully the figure inside was fine, but I've since stopped using DHL because of it. Reply
sftwn Faiakes said: Lawsuit against both of them? You have to file report first with the CBP, unfortunately. I've gone through this before and it's a long and painful process of filing forms and waiting months for the CBP to not respond in kind so you can finally file suit, then years for the suit to play out. And even then, you'll rarely recoup the full damages. I only recovered less than half the damages. Reply
ezst036 This is very sad. Perhaps the original disk is gone forever, however are there in existence ROMs or EXEs or (fill in the blank) of what the game was so that at least the digital asset is not also lost forever? Reply
imapterodactyl Notton said: I would assume it's CBP and not DHL. For sure. Some idiot kid who's never seen a floppy and sliced it open thinking he could hold the magnetic disk up to the light and see what's on it like it's a dang View-Master slide. Absolute morons with no training whatsoever just ruining stuff for no reason with no shame. Disgusting. Reply
imapterodactyl TechieTwo said: I would not be so sure that it's not DHL as I observed yesterday that they delivered a package to France that wasn't to the correct business customer or even to the correct country. How could DHL do that? 🙁 Delivering to the wrong location is very different from intentionally tearing open a box and manually destroying the contents because you're a moron who doesn't know what a floppy disk is. Reply
ezst036 There is another side here. Who owns the other 49 copies of this only 50 ever produced? What this means is those other 49 now go up in value. Or maybe not, since people are telling me that DRAM prices increasing has nothing to do with supply and demand that its just a conspiracy when prices go up. Yeah, that's what it is. The other 49 disks won't go up in value at all. Reply
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