The $54 Million Laptop

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."

Comments

Re:Read what she's gone through?

[Robert Y. Frost]

Blogging is a creative art.

And logging is an excretive fart.

Re:Tenleytown Best Buy!

[gerardolm]

When I read the title I just thought: "Oh, God, don't tell me this is some kind of One Laptop Per Country initiative"

Depends on who gets to do the pricing

[ReverendLoki]

Yeah I love how she throws in the cost of music and video on her lost computer into her justification for suing for so much. What did she buy enough to fill up an iPod? :)

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?

[Bryansix]

Everybody in this thread is on the wrong website. You wanted Splashdot: News for Turds, Stuff that Splatters.