Shipping horrors (post pics)
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TheBasement
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A near mint Bump and Jump bezel.
And a Nintendo neon which someone "wrapped" a piece of cardboard around it with no packing material, and the metal feet sticking out of the cardboard box. Literally, the cardboard you see it sitting on, that was it. No popcorn, bubble wrap or anything. Somehow the words "Fragile" and "Handle with extreme care" were good enough to substitute the lack of any type of packing material for something made of glass.
And a Nintendo neon which someone "wrapped" a piece of cardboard around it with no packing material, and the metal feet sticking out of the cardboard box. Literally, the cardboard you see it sitting on, that was it. No popcorn, bubble wrap or anything. Somehow the words "Fragile" and "Handle with extreme care" were good enough to substitute the lack of any type of packing material for something made of glass.
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Was that an original Nintendo neon or one of those chop-socky-chinese deals? At any rate, I hope you got your full money back from whoever shipped it to you. That's grade-A horse-shit for packaging.
TheBasement
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That was the real deal, licensed Nintendo neon. It took some struggles, wrangling and waiting with Paypal, but I got my money back probably a full month later. After I got my money back I tried it again with ebay and the same neon, different seller, that time it came in one piece and well packed.
Adamdiz
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Zork2
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I mean seriously, WTF are people thinking when then they ship something like this?
GOOD LORD........
Dude tell me about - I've lost every ounce of trust in ebay sellers, I just had another run-in last week. I bought a board on ebay that rarely comes up - paid well for it - seller put it in a box that it BARELY fit into, with no padding, arrived smashed with 3 caps half busted off the board, and board spacers busted to hell. Oh he wadded up newspaper on one end to stop it from sliding I guess? A fucking joke, how can anybody in their right mind think shit like this is acceptable. Trashed. From now on, I am questioning every sellers packing method before I bid on items.
I'm just going to keep going because I'm fired up - Ebay dumbassery at it's finest here.
So a while back I bought an original Xbox system, complete off Ebay - Box and all. Basically bought the system for it's completeness and clean box. I even asked the seller ahead of time. You will be shipping the boxed system in a box right? Seller said of course. I win, I pay, box shows up not inside of another box - it's been shipped wrapped in 3 grocery bags that shredded off in transit, box is completely busted on every corner, if it hadn't been taped so well in 1 direction the box would have unfolded in shipping. It also had games inside that were busted to hell. Ebay sided with the seller because I didn't buy insurance. Fuck that bullshit.
I've had several complete boxed games or jewel case discs come smashed in the mail because they were shipped in padded or unpadded envelopes. Loose discs all scratched to hell because the case was demolished.
There's no better way to tell your customer you just don't give a fuck about them, than to ship something with no protection whatsoever. They should be fucking auto-banned from ebay after soo many packaging complaints. "We are sorry sir/ma'am - You just aren't responsible enough to sell on here, you fucking moron."
I've vented on here like 5 times now, and even the mention of this sends me to the moon. They blame the post office, every fucking time. It's common sense, just protect the product, shit happens in transit, I know, but had you taken the BARE minimum time to package this thing with even an ounce of care, there's a good chance it would have arrived in 1 piece.
ThatGuy
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Non-arcade, but this really pissed me off..but the box ended up barely damaged somehow. I recall the seller was a real flake-
Sucks about the shipping but how ironic that I just bought a rebel transport yesterday on eBay.
JamBurglar
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I'll have to post a picture of the box my Mario Bros. bezel came in. It's indescribable. Somehow the bezel survived!
TheBasement
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- This was the sellers reply on the shipping job on the Nintendo neon. Apparently he paid *someone* $100 to pack it for him.
-I assure you the item was packaged correctly and nothing was sticking out. I assure you it was shipped with care. How it arrived to you is unfortunate, but I assure you I did not send it to you like that. I am not sure how you managed to recieve it in a totally different box and broken. That was not what I paid for. I paid $100 dollars to ship the huge box and it was filled with bubble wrap. I can't tell you enough how sorry and disappointed I am. I will go ahead and refund your money a.s.a.p. It will have to be next week though when I get paid. I don't know how else to compensate for this mishap. It should have arrived to you in perfect condition. This makes me very upset. I paid the extra to ensure it would arrive safely. I will have to make a complaint with the post office too. I'll be sure you get your full refund next week."
- Keep in mind he DID NOT refund my money on his own accord. After many weeks of waiting after this last message, Paypal eventually had to force a refund out of the guy. -
Hahahahaha... the guy actually suggested that someone took the unit out of a different box... broke it... then re-packed it in a DIFFERENT smaller box?
Hahahaha... that is just .... hahahaha...
Hahahaha... that is just .... hahahaha...
deadpixels
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A near mint Bump and Jump bezel.
And a Nintendo neon which someone "wrapped" a piece of cardboard around it with no packing material, and the metal feet sticking out of the cardboard box. Literally, the cardboard you see it sitting on, that was it. No popcorn, bubble wrap or anything. Somehow the words "Fragile" and "Handle with extreme care" were good enough to substitute the lack of any type of packing material for something made of glass.
Breaks my heart seeing that, and brings back some bad memories. I had the same sign which a friend of mine happened to accidentally break. In turn he offered to sell me his for 100 bucks. What a great deal! :/
Some shippers are just idiots, but some need to re-think their shipping costs and work that into the total price so they can spend the money to pack it properly.
Often the cheap shipping price will bite them in the ass because they now are faced with shipping something they don't have the proper box for and then choose to 'create' something that will sort of work.
I've had my share of thrashed postage but still find the worst thing to be a lost package.... at least getting something wrecked is better than nothing at all, never knowing where it is, who's loving it tonight, you know the usual.
Often the cheap shipping price will bite them in the ass because they now are faced with shipping something they don't have the proper box for and then choose to 'create' something that will sort of work.
I've had my share of thrashed postage but still find the worst thing to be a lost package.... at least getting something wrecked is better than nothing at all, never knowing where it is, who's loving it tonight, you know the usual.
Adamdiz
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You are kidding right? There is no way anyone could type that, its pure rediculous lol.
Unreal how stupid people can be.
Unreal how stupid people can be.
- This was the sellers reply on the shipping job on the Nintendo neon. Apparently he paid *someone* $100 to pack it for him.
I assure you the item was packaged correctly and nothing was sticking out. I assure you it was shipped with care. How it arrived to you is unfortunate, but I assure you I did not send it to you like that. I am not sure how you managed to recieve it in a totally different box and broken. That was not what I paid for. I paid $100 dollars to ship the huge box and it was filled with bubble wrap. I can't tell you enough how sorry and disappointed I am. I will go ahead and refund your money a.s.a.p. It will have to be next week though when I get paid. I don't know how else to compensate for this mishap. It should have arrived to you in perfect condition. This makes me very upset. I paid the extra to ensure it would arrive safely. I will have to make a complaint with the post office too. I'll be sure you get your full refund next week."
- Keep in mind he DID NOT refund my money on his own accord. After many weeks of waiting after this last message, Paypal eventually had to force a refund out of the guy. -
roothorick
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After finding this in my mailbox, I was pleasantly surprised to find both carts still run fine.
Manila envelope, thick wax paper. At least he was creative...
Manila envelope, thick wax paper. At least he was creative...
Iluvcars
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I had this same issue when i lived on the third floor of a condo. UPS would launch my packages as far as he could trying to make it onto my patio. Then he would never leave a note saying where he left it.
modessitt
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I never have problems with shipping - mainly because I pack it properly so that it can be tossed around or stacked on without damaging the contents.
The only damage I've seen is something shipped to me, but that was because it had minimal padding and stuffed into a box only 1/8" wider than the object inside:
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Worked just fine when I was done...
The only damage I've seen is something shipped to me, but that was because it had minimal padding and stuffed into a box only 1/8" wider than the object inside:
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Worked just fine when I was done...
I shipped a mint MITS Altair 8800 with a matching double disk drive unit (considered widely to be the first home PC) that was packed by a UPS store double-boxed, insured for a bit over the amount of the winning ebay bid, and it got to the winner pretty banged up. UPS wouldn't honor the insured value even though I paid for the extra insurance. I'll post pics when I find them.
