What is the most poorly packaged shipment you've ever recieved?
Someone I know sent a a box turtle across country via USPS flat rate box. No packing, just turtle. It did live.
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Camera lens filter which was just swimming in a box the size of a small printer. The filter itself and fallen out of it's plastic package and the glass was just wasted.
One time I got an empty box, because it was apparently poorly packaged enough for the item to fall out. (It was from a major retailer, so I assume the item fell out and it wasn't part of some petty scam.)
The delivery driver took off before the person signing for the package actually got to pick it up and realize what happened. We called all parties involved immediately but everyone acted like the signer and I were the ones trying to get away with something. My memory's a little fuzzy because it was a long time ago, but I don't think I ever got a refund.
An Ariel play set that was a birthday present for my granddaughter. Got it off of Amazon, and whoever packed put it into too small of a box and actually had to fold the toy package to get it to fit into the shipping box. It was amazing, the effort it must have took to get it into shipping box had to be considerable. Unfortunately, I have had those types of issues with Amazon.com shipping on numerous occasions..
@tarasadies: Wow, I always get the opposite with Amazon: Big ol' herkin' box containing an itty bitty item and about 3,000 bags of air.
I once got a flat box that was supposed to have a cymbal in it. Some dope had just slid the cymbal in and taped the edges shut. Sure, that will hold in the mail. :/
I bought a Sega off eBay what came with the system and all assorted cords and controllers, 32X converter and a handful of games. The shipper put the items in a pretty big box with no newspaper or any other sort of packing materials. The system lucky survived.
A laptop I purchased from BestBuy.com during their thanksgiving day sale arrived in an extremely over-sized box with 3 small air pouches... luckily the contents were unharmed, but it was noticeable that they obviously did not take the time or care to do things right.
I've seen Bag of Craps being unboxed on YouTube with over 20+ air pouches, or Texas Air!
Just opened a package two minutes ago. Glass scale and a box set of book both shipped in a huge box with a few deflated air bags. It was obvious that they have seen lots of tossing because the books put a huge hole and several triangle shaped dents in the glass scale box. Fortunately they are all OK.
A cast iron skillet shipped in a plain brown box with no packing materials. At the least the package was easy to find in my package room because it was the one with a cast iron skillet handle sticking out of the side of the box. Luckily, there wasn't any damage to the skillet, because it's darn near indestructible.
Earlier this year I ordered a case of energy drinks off Amazon. The case was thrown in a plastic garbage bag (yes, an actual garbage bag with drawstring and all), duct taped to hell, and then put in a box that was 3x as big as it needed to be, with exactly one little bag of air, which popped by the time I got it. One of the cans burst open in transit, and so all the cans were sticky with energy drink, and most of the unopened cans were dented.
Amazon overnighted me a new case though, so I got 23 energy drinks for the price of 12.
Graduation gift from an elderly aunt who probably strained her budget to buy me a nylon nightie. Whoever stamped the thin cardboard box for shipping stamped it so hard the cardboard was torn and purple ink was stamped right on the light pink nightie. As if that weren't bad enough, the ink actuall ate holes in the fabric. Never told my aunt. She would have felt obliged to replace it.
While I was in the Army in Germany, my mother shipped me a Pepperidge Farms birthday cake (comes in it's own box) in a padded envelope. Needless to say, the cake was crushed and had formed a large eclaire-like structure at the bottom of what used to be a Pepperidge Farms box.
I ordered a portable child's potty from a now defunct website. It was made of hard plastic and they just threw it in a big box with no packing materials around it. When it arrived, part of the plastic in potty seat was cracked and broken, resulting in a very sharp piece. I called the company and complained. The customer service rep actually suggested I GLUE it! There is a good reason that site is no longer around.
Amazon crammed a Gears of War Comic Con edition figure in a box and bent the hell out of it.
Box was way to small.
I wrote about this sometime, somewhere a while ago. I ordered a large wood-framed mirror from ShopNBC. It arrived w/the mirror broken. Long story short (haha): I called CS, the rep said something like this, 'Take all the broken mirror pieces out of the box, and send it back. We'll refund you. I said, 'You want for ME to take the pieces out? She said, 'Yes, we don't want for the warehouse person who receives it to get injured. ?!?!
I sent the box back w/all shards included. Got the refund. Stopped buying from them for a long, long time. Not the 1st example of shoddy CS. BTW: In case you didn't guess, the mirror was obviously not packaged properly.
I bought a digital camera on ebay that was just mailed in a regular envelope. No wrapping, no cushion. Not even a piece of paper wrapped around it. Just a camera in an envelope. I can't believe it survived.
Well, this isn't packaging, but it is a funny delivery story. I ordered an electric scooter a couple of years ago at Christmas that came with a dead battery. I contacted the merchant and they said they would send a new battery, about half the size of a car battery. Time passed, no battery, the merchant said just mail it back for a refund(this is a huge freight item). Months later when spring arrived we were doing yard work and we found the battery package buried in leaves and detritus in the far corner of the planter in front of the house. Our best guess was that the delivery guy had concealed it for fear of it being stolen and then it got buried in snow and leaves over the next couple of days and didn't turn up till spring. The package was rotted through and the battery was rusted out, so we took it to the hazardous materials dump site.
@tarasadies: Bought FROM Amazon.com or bought ON Amazon.com? They are two very different things. Like others have said I always receive exceptionally well packed items from Amazon.com. I have, however, purchased a few items from independent sellers ON Amazon.com who packed the items poorly
Purchased a laptop on ebay. It was shipped in the factory box with NO PADDING!! I received the packaged, opened it and found nothing but the laptop and power cord loose and bouncing around inside. Needless to say, the screen was broken and there were plastic fragments all over inside the box.
Sears Outlet last week. I ordered the Ronco Petite Rotisserie and the UPS guy told me the item had not been enclosed in a separate box, should never have made it onto his truck. It was literally falling apart in his hands.
The product works though, no damage.
1daysale....the worst ever. I bought a WWE ring set. I saw it in Toys r us and walmart for over 50 bucks. They had it for 9.99, It was a gift for my son. When I got home the set was on the front porch. Just as if I went to Walmart and bought it off the self, except it had a UPS label on it. No outer box, no packing, no NOTHING! It was crushed and had a hole in it. Parts were missing, what a joke!
I just got a flip camera today...in a paper envelope. The whole case was ripped and crushed. Lucky enough the cam seems to be okay. morons.
Tiger direct sells bare bone hard drives, in clam shells and ships them in big boxes with some paper on top, not wrapped just paper on top. Like this http://www.memorypack.com.tw/image/HDD%20package/hard%20disk%20drive%20esd%20package%20blister%20box%20clamshell%20tray%20(1).jpg
The funny thing about this is if you used that packaging to RMA the hard drive to Seagate (per Seagate's rules, they will not fix the drive).
http://www.seagate.com/support/service/pdf/pack.pdf (caution this is a 20 page instructional pdf on packing up returning 3.5" Hard drives.)
Moral of the story you need to package broken hard drives better then working ones.
Placed an order with Amazon that contained multiple items which included 2 packages of jelly babies (those from the UK and Dr Who fans will recognize what those are). They were placed in big box with a heavy item that slid around and crushed them. Combined with the heat of the Alabama summer pretty much ruined them.
@caffeine_dude: This was an external drive in retail packaging. I didn't even bother to open the box. It appeared to have sustained a good enough of an impact that I wouldn't have trusted the drive.(And it was also a Hitachi drive.)
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