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Not necessarily. Not sure about how it'll work in the Netherlands, but I've seen this happen in the UK and I believe customers essentially lost the items that w
by danpalmer 3y ago
Not necessarily. Not sure about how it'll work in the Netherlands, but I've seen this happen in the UK and I believe customers essentially lost the items that were in for repair because they were effectively property of the company during that time, or something like that. I believe repair shop contents were sold off to cover debts.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoThat doesn't make any sense to me. A company doesn't take ownership of items that come in for repair/servicing, and simply locking other people's property into a room/shop/garage is hardly a basis for ownership as otherwise thieves could just nick something, lock it into a garage and then claim ownership.
- danpalmer 3y agoI'm not a lawyer, and I haven't read the terms of service, just going on what I have seen happen to a local company here a few years ago. I agree it doesn't make sense. > A company doesn't take ownership of items that come in for repair/servicing While this seems unlikely, it's not obvious to me that this is not what "technically" happens for consumer electronics.
- singleshot_ 3y agoThe concept at the center of this discussion, but which is not being discussed is called “bailment.” While every bankruptcy system has rules for unwinding those bailments entered into before filing, they vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and much of what we think would be workable or fair just doesn’t work that way.
- cafard 3y agoJohn Gregory Dunne long ago wrote a piece about his wife (Joan Didion) wrangling with the IRS to get back his shirts from a laundry the IRS had seized. With a good deal of persistence, she managed to do it. When handing back the goods, somebody from the IRS told him, Your wife is a grouch--which hardly seems fair.