Comment on The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck
Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 3 months ago
Did you contact Valve or have the person who bought it contact Valve to report it as stolen?
Comment on The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck
Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 3 months ago
Did you contact Valve or have the person who bought it contact Valve to report it as stolen?
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yes, i contacted valve. They marked the device as stolen. The Valve employee said that it won’t be applicable for future warranty attempts. I’m not sure what else is possible.
I hope when the thief connects his account to the device, it get banned or something.
Dashmezzo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I have mixed feelings about this. Steam could make a lock that is more like the IMEI or android and iPhone lock that means it is far less valuable to steal and easier to track and lock. But by reporting it you remove THEIR obligation to provide warranty to someone that innocently buys a used steam deck that is still within its warranty period but that doesn’t hurt the person who stole it only another innocent party in the ordeal. Now if they gave you $25 off another steam deck or something I would see the point.
Not saying don’t do it. Just that it seems a little redundant now.
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It should teach the person never to buy stuff without an original invoice. The buyer should understand it’s a stolen product when they opened it and saw that there is an active account associated with it AND the charger is not included.
Dashmezzo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Ah you sweet child. Go to any legit second hand store and ask for the original receipt for the item. Nope. A charger may well have been changed or another similar one given after all it’s only USBC.
There are a plethora of reasons why a legitimate seller may have a non standard charger and when I sell an old phone or a laptop on a market place there is an expectation the item isn’t stolen. It’s called good faith in contract law and why you can’t be guilty of handling stolen goods if you have no knowledge or expectation of it being stolen. For example if you buy it in a pub with a dog and 2 kilos of meat all for £50, then there is a reasonable expectation it is stolen, but buying from a second hand electronics store or eBay, there is an expectation it is not stolen.
As for someone else’s login, well if you wipe the drive or factory restore it, it no longer has anything on it and can have no such identifiers. This is why I stated that Steam can and I believe should do more to make the device lock down, but they have no incentive as it costs them money to implement and manage but with little to gain for them.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Buying stolen property isn’t innocent and can take the matter up with the person that sold it to them.
Dashmezzo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Buying stolen property unknowingly is innocent. A steam deck can end up on eBay or Facebook marketplace place or even in second hand stores like CEX etc without being tagged as stolen.
If you buy something and a few months later it dies from a recognised fault, it sucks for the person who bought it in good faith. They have no recourse and the only person gaining anything from it is Steam.