Packing that makes me want to cry.

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When you pay good money for a board, does the seller think it's not his responsibility to make sure the board is protected in transit? Lets say a 5 board stack of PCB's shows up to your house and the shipper doesn't pad the top or the bottom of the board. Just barely fit into a USPS flat rate box, with newspaper on each end. So you now have $100 board here, with almost every cap smashed and bent around on the board, and 2 half busted off the top board. Do you get angry? Do you complain? I don't know.

I should complain, but why bother. This asshole sells a LOT of boards, he should know better. This is an ebay purchase, so I'm definitely not busting anyone's balls here, but for the love of fuck, just protect the board when you ship it. I know you can't stop USPS from throwing a package around, just act like you fucking care about what you're selling when someone paid $130 for it.

Chances are, I'll have to replace a lot of the caps, which isn't a huge deal. I know a few guys that do that when they get an older board anyways. Of course, If I knew this was how he was going to ship it, I wouldn't have paid this much for it.
 
That was my first though too. What'd he change his ebay id to?
 
You would think that the seller would also consider that the person buying the board might be a repeat customer too.

I bought a board from Riptor and I was amazed at how well it was packaged – anti-static bag, foam fill, and a well sized box. I wouldn't hesitate to buy from him again – top notch.
 
I have had a couple people on here send me pcbs that way. One was a space duel pcb that was sent in a flat rate envelope......DOA

When you pay good money for a board, does the seller think it's not his responsibility to make sure the board is protected in transit? Lets say a 5 board stack of PCB's shows up to your house and the shipper doesn't pad the top or the bottom of the board. Just barely fit into a USPS flat rate box, with newspaper on each end. So you now have $100 board here, with almost every cap smashed and bent around on the board, and 2 half busted off the top board. Do you get angry? Do you complain? I don't know.

I should complain, but why bother. This asshole sells a LOT of boards, he should know better. This is an ebay purchase, so I'm definitely not busting anyone's balls here, but for the love of fuck, just protect the board when you ship it. I know you can't stop USPS from throwing a package around, just act like you fucking care about what you're selling when someone paid $130 for it.

Chances are, I'll have to replace a lot of the caps, which isn't a huge deal. I know a few guys that do that when they get an older board anyways. Of course, If I knew this was how he was going to ship it, I wouldn't have paid this much for it.
 
No, it was not Bill Burger, but that name sounds really familiar.

Vidsnpins on ebay, I should note that at least the sides had paper so it didn't slide in the box, but it wouldn't have anyways, because it's as wide as the box. lol

I also don't want to just trash the dude, because it could be an isolated incident, but for $130, I expect a little protection. I just opened it up again and noticed a rattle in the box, a couple plastic pieces from the spacers rolling around and something else that flipped into the carpet somewhere. I'll just have to zip tie the boards together or something.
 
I appreciate your posting this. Vids and pins on ebay has a few rare EDOT related boards that i was considering (300 + on the main board). I was on the fence. Now, i certainly dont need them.
 
No, it was not Bill Burger, but that name sounds really familiar.

Vidsnpins on ebay, I should note that at least the sides had paper so it didn't slide in the box, but it wouldn't have anyways, because it's as wide as the box. lol

I also don't want to just trash the dude, because it could be an isolated incident, but for $130, I expect a little protection. I just opened it up again and noticed a rattle in the box, a couple plastic pieces from the spacers rolling around and something else that flipped into the carpet somewhere. I'll just have to zip tie the boards together or something.


Nope. Not an isolated incident. They sent me a Hypersports in a medium flat rate box packed with literally 5 or 6 sheets of newspaper stuffed in it; boards missing standoffs and just floating around scraping each other in the box. I was amazed it worked. I messaged them about it and never got a response back. The fact the boards worked was just luck as far as I'm concerned. Never again though.
 
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I appreciate your posting this. Vids and pins on ebay has a few rare EDOT related boards that i was considering (300 + on the main board). I was on the fence. Now, i certainly dont need them.

At the very least, I would just make sure he knows to pack those things a lot better than this was. Just tell him you're interested, but you hear he packs stuff like an asshole. HAHA To his credit, at least it arrived within a week after buying it.
 
Nope. Not an isolated incident. They sent me a Hypersports in a medium flat rate box packed with literally 5 or 6 sheets of newspaper stuffed in it; boards missing standoffs and just floating around scraping each other in the box. I was amazed it worked. I messaged them about it and never got a response back. The fact the boards worked was just luck as far as I'm concerned. Never again though.

SAME HERE. Ok - this is not an isolated incident. Time to send him an email through ebay.
 
I have had a couple people on here send me pcbs that way. One was a space duel pcb that was sent in a flat rate envelope......DOA

Flat rate envelope deserves a serious ass-kicking. I would have come unglued. WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! What's worse than a complete moron, because that's what that person is.
 
SAME HERE. Ok - this is not an isolated incident. Time to send him an email through ebay.

And of course my dopey wife (we share an eBay account) sees the fact I never left feedback and goes and leaves him a positive (I told her the boards worked...didn't mention the packing). Not that I would have neg'ed him, but definitely a case where I just would have not left at all or maybe a neutral.
 
And of course my dopey wife (we share an eBay account) sees the fact I never left feedback and goes and leaves him a positive (I told her the boards worked...didn't mention the packing). Not that I would have neg'ed him, but definitely a case where I just would have not left at all or maybe a neutral.

OMG LOL I can't believe you called your wife dopey.

Yeah, he won't get a positive out of me that's for sure, and I don't know how he has 100% positive feedback. I'm not big on giving negatives, it did arrive after all, but this is definitely neutral deserving. My feedback will be determined on if and how he responds.
 
Just open a case against him, ebay WILL rule in your favor. For example, I just sold a '74 Corvette headlight assembly that I packaged very well. It was a junkyard pull so I claimed the headlight AS IS, AS SEEN, with NO REFUNDS. Buyer opened a case against me and claimed that my poor packaging cracked the headlight. Ebay doesn't give two shits what the seller says, so he was able to force PayPal to refund him and I am currently awaiting the arrival of the headlight back....
 
Just open a case against him, ebay WILL rule in your favor. For example, I just sold a '74 Corvette headlight assembly that I packaged very well. It was a junkyard pull so I claimed the headlight AS IS, AS SEEN, with NO REFUNDS. Buyer opened a case against me and claimed that my poor packaging cracked the headlight. Ebay doesn't give two shits what the seller says, so he was able to force PayPal to refund him and I am currently awaiting the arrival of the headlight back....

Good luck getting it back, I opened a case on someone years ago on a pcb that was stated working and also as-is and no refunds. When I got it, it was not working properly I contacted the seller and he said no refunds so I opened a case and paypal eventually refunded my money.the seller wanted the board back so I wanted shipping money from him as I already paid shipping once. I contacted ebay and they instructed me to keep the board and the case was closed.
 
Just open a case against him, ebay WILL rule in your favor. For example, I just sold a '74 Corvette headlight assembly that I packaged very well. It was a junkyard pull so I claimed the headlight AS IS, AS SEEN, with NO REFUNDS. Buyer opened a case against me and claimed that my poor packaging cracked the headlight. Ebay doesn't give two shits what the seller says, so he was able to force PayPal to refund him and I am currently awaiting the arrival of the headlight back....

That's crazy - ebay is kind of here and there, I can't believe they honored his side. I while ago I had an original Xbox with box sent to me, wrapped in paper, it was totally trashed when it got here and they sided with the seller. Also had complete games shipped to my house, box smashed because it was shipped in an padded envelope and they sided with the seller.

Those are the only 2 cases I've ever opened and they never sided with me so I figure it's a waste of time. My complaints were clean, no profanity, no flying off the handle, like I do here. I don't understand.
 
Not isolated at all.
I just received a board last week from the same guy. It was in a full priority box, with another cut to fit over top. A little bit of newspaper in each end of the boxes. I'd stay away.
 
So he charged you thirty bucks and mailed it in a 14 dollar flat rate box? The other 16 bucks shoulda paid for bubble wrap at least.
 
Tell me about it, the seller really thought it was ok too.

Flat rate envelope deserves a serious ass-kicking. I would have come unglued. WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! What's worse than a complete moron, because that's what that person is.
 
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