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Comment by InsideOutSanta | Hacker News Reader

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."

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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.

I followed that story and something seemed off. Not that the person was lying, but something felt left out.

Apple and Uber know driver who the order was given to and the police are involved but they also haven’t been able to do anything? Just seems odd.

I’ve had trade ins go missing and after a short investigation Apple has always credited me.

When you're the one making the rules, enforcing them and judging who breaks them, you can basically do whatever you want as long as you pay taxes :)

And the jury's still out on that last bit.

As long as you properly plan your taxes to 0.

Wouldn't the right course of action in that case be to issue a chargeback and let Apple and Uber fight it out?

Yes, but it can be quite burdensome if your Apple account has any value to you. (Say, if you are an app developer for instance, or aren't quite sure which services you have registered with an apple email address, etc.)

I wonder if this tunes changes once lawyers are involved

given that those mac's would have been 4-5k? I sure as heck would have at least consulted a lawyer. I don't want to just lazily have my package stolen in real time.

if no one else is seeking justice, I will at least poke the blind woman a bit.

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