Ugh - Thanks shipping company... now I need centuri ripoff cocktail top glass.
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Shipping cocktails is risky business. Sorry you got burned.
TheYeti
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Seems to happen easily.
Here is Coindork's recent unfortunate shipping situation:
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=447212
Here is Coindork's recent unfortunate shipping situation:
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=447212
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Looks like the art got pulverized? If so, that's a much worse situation than the Domino Man Cocktail.
Maybe these glass tops need to be shipped separately...
...not that it helps you now.
Good luck.
Maybe these glass tops need to be shipped separately...
...not that it helps you now.
Good luck.
Or a genius who knows better than to ship it without a wooden frame to protect the glass.
It's not rocket science.
Cocktails should be fully crated (and put on a skid) .... no stacking ... no need to ship parts separately. The seller did you wrong, IMHO. 
GL*** (good luck finding a glass)
GL*** (good luck finding a glass)
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How much does crating cocktails cost? Opposed to crating just the glass.
SkyFighter
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1BjQYQ5p2Ko
Hopefully another owner will step up and get their glass scanned.
Hopefully another owner will step up and get their glass scanned.
Don't be lazy, that's an easy fix.
(yes i'm kidding)
(yes i'm kidding)
taulpaul
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Seriously. You shouldn't have to crate an f'n cocktail. What dumbass shipping company was it?
P.S. I didn't send it.
P.S. I didn't send it.
keithsarcade
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Crating may be a bit overkill but also not a bad idea. Either way the shipper is responsible for protecting that glass top. If it were me, I would have applied some foam corner & edge protectors and wrapped up the top with plenty of bubble wrap. Simply wrapping the game in blankets or cardboard and shrink wrap just isn't enough, especially with a glass top.
RalphT3
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Line the top with pool noodles from your local dollarish store.
andrewb
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This has been stated before, but shipping a cocktail with glass on it is equivalent to sticking the glass in a cardboard box and handing it to USPS. This could have happened equally with any shipping company.
Tempered glass will shatter from concentrated point pressure. And there are four points on every cocktail, i.e., the clips that hold the glass on. So any jarring of the cab, e.g., the truck hitting a bump on the highway, or the cab getting bumped from the side, or bumped while loading/unloading, etc is going to jostle the cab+glass, and those four clips are going to apply concentrated pressure to the corners of the glass.
Even if it's crated, dropping or bumping the cab (which the cab itself can take, as we know they're built like tanks) ends up transfering the energy to the glass, and the clips don't have any give. Kaboom.
People can keep blaming the shipping companies for this, but it's simple physics. And even crating the whole cab won't solve it.
Bottom line - don't ship cocktails with the glass on them.
Tempered glass will shatter from concentrated point pressure. And there are four points on every cocktail, i.e., the clips that hold the glass on. So any jarring of the cab, e.g., the truck hitting a bump on the highway, or the cab getting bumped from the side, or bumped while loading/unloading, etc is going to jostle the cab+glass, and those four clips are going to apply concentrated pressure to the corners of the glass.
Even if it's crated, dropping or bumping the cab (which the cab itself can take, as we know they're built like tanks) ends up transfering the energy to the glass, and the clips don't have any give. Kaboom.
People can keep blaming the shipping companies for this, but it's simple physics. And even crating the whole cab won't solve it.
Bottom line - don't ship cocktails with the glass on them.
joeycuda
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I'd box the glass top separately and shrink wrap the box to top or side of game.
evileye
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mrbill2084
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I sold my ripoff cocktail to a fellow collector. I would think he would be willing to let it get photographed for repo. I just dont know what it would take to repo it. I doubt he would let the glass leave his home.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Oldworldman
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Neither is hauling games upright in a pickup truck.
Once shipped a cocktail Warlords which was crated. When I opened the crate, the monitor was shattered because it fell through the bottom of the cabinet when the crate was dropped..... But the top glass was fine. =-)
