I don't know the details of the situation you have mentioned
Maybe you should be a little more specific - which post are you referring to?
...I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of reliable account as to what steps were taken to get stuff back.
That WOULD be interesting. The only particular instance of someone claiming their stuff was sittin' in the NCIX warehouse, that I'm aware of, was a person asking on the NCIX forums, sometime in the 2 or 3 days after they declared bankruptcy, how he was supposed to get his rig back. At that point, I recall someone replied that he should contact the company overseeing the bankruptcy, and that was the last I heard of that.
The thing I posted earlier, was simply from someone that was at the auction previewing, and he saw several items with customers' info on them, some for RMA.... and BTW, he apparently used to work there(not real recently, tho).
I know that if I went to the auction location or contacted the company and said 'you guys have my property' I would not have simply said 'oh well' if the auction people said 'too bad'.
Of course, and neither would I - I'd have been extremely irate if I saw my stuff sittin' there up for auction, without my permission!
The auction company could easily have been confused about what was purchased and not delivered vs. stuff that was already delivered and in for repair
Well, based on that quote I posted earlier, from the guy that was at the previewing, the auction company apparently didn't care....
(ie. if I took my car to the dealer to get my tires swapped and the dealer went bankrupt while my car was on premises most people would understand that the bankruptcy trustee does not have the right to sell my car, even if it looked just like other cars on the lot).
True enough, but the difference there being, your car would have a license plate on it, and insurance in the glove box, with a VIN, all of which would make it reasonably easy to prove whom it belongs to, whereas we're talking about generic computers, and parts, with nothing to identify them, other than some paperwork taped to them.
I do think that NCIX is the main party responsible here for taking the RMA in the first place
Agreed - as you said before, a "dick move" taking stuff in like that, ESPECIALLY at the point they must've known they were going down.
, but I also believe that any sensible person would have taken steps to get their stuff back from RMA right away, including contacting the trustee that they had property that was once already in their possession on NCIX property.
I'm with you there, but there were lots of people still coming on the NCIX forums, days after they went belly-up, asking about their orders, and several people, including me('til I gave up), told them NCIX was bankrupt, and that they needed to do a chargeback on their credit cards. The thing is, I'm pretty sure most customers don't hang out on tech forums, and a lot of people just plain either didn't know they were bankrupt, or when told on the forums, didn't believe it, because it was coming from people NOT in an official capacity.
I find it hard to believe that any reasonable trustee would hold back personal effects that happen to be on premises
So do I, which is why(at least in the case of the one person that posted on their forums about his rig) people told that one guy, in particular, to contact the trustee.
, and could discern the difference between a product not delivered and personal effects (or maybe I'm naive?)
Well, as I quoted earlier, there were apparently many items sitting there with customer paperwork on them.... I didn't personally see it, but I'm inclined to believe the person that posted that info.
