Mate who’s going to pay the lawyer fee to track down a single asset when the company is gone gone.
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acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 week agoI’m also not sure “just ask the store manager if you can have it” is a good idea. It’s not theirs, and even though Redbox is going through bankruptcy it’s still an asset of the company that can be liquidated to pay debts.
aniki@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
r00ty@kbin.life 1 week ago
What do you mean? Administrators/liquidators will have an entire list of assets owned by the bankrupt company.
They will be looking for a buyer to take on the whole company (assets and liabilities) or sell off the assets to cover liabilities.
Those boxes are still owned, they didn't magically become fair game because the company owning them went bankrupt.
If people advertise that they stole one of these boxes, they become fair game to be pursued by the liquidators/administrators or any entity buying the ownership of them.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Doing nothing costs a whole lot more than doing something, and then potentially risking getting sued.
Also no random manager is going to take that personal risk. They get paid like 40k a year.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s no personal risk. If anything the store would pay. But again no one’s suing for this shit.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
You’re going to get fired. That’s a personal risk.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But it’s abandoned on their property. If you abandoned something on a commercial property and never came to reclaim it, eventually (probably quite quickly) the store management would dispose of it. They’re not going to keep it around stinking up the place forever “just in case.”
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
yeah I’m sure there is a contract and/or standard legal processes that covers this situation. I’m just saying I wouldn’t rely on a casual interaction with a store manager to cover my ass legally, all for the benefit of putting Doom on a computer kiosk.