Stolen wireless broadband router hunt

Likely to be for sale at "heavily reduced" price, warns D-Link

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Networking company D-Link is appealing for help from the public after 7,200 of its broadband wireless starter kits were stolen.

D-Link said the starter kits - consisting of a broadband router and USB adapter - were stolen in the UK on route to a European Logistic Centre, and that it has evidence these goods are now being sold off on the cheap.

The stolen goods have the model number DWL-922/E and UPC Code 790069285479 which is indicated on the bar-code.

The company said the products may be offered with a free UK power supply or just with a Euro two-pin unit. The stolen goods are also likely to be sold at a "heavily reduced" price.

The company said in a statement: "This theft is not only a financial loss to D-Link but more importantly causes confusion in the channel and to the market, which is why the stolen goods have to be located as soon as possible."

It added: "We encourage the public not to purchase, sell or resell these products."

The company is asking anyone with information to contact it or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 quoting Kent Police Reference EZ/8732/06.

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  1. 1. anonymous

    Sorrry....

    ... when did having goods which 'fell off the back of a lorry' sold cheaply in a pub 'confuse the channel to market'?

    That's gotta qualify as the naffist excuse given by acompny this year/decade/milennium

    • 16 October 2006 13:28
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