[vcf-midatlantic] Received H11-a shipping mess!
Dave
dfnum3 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 12:07:30 EST 2016
Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> The box was only marginally bigger than the unit, similarly rectangular and of not a particularly thick corrugated cardboard. There is only about 2” of buffer all around, and packed by the seller. The box contained a short string of air-filled bags (like you get from an Amazon order) and white (non-ESD) peanuts. The unit rested right on the bottom of the cardboard. The unit is lop-sided weight-wise (transformer weight) and there was not enough packaging to prevent movement of the unit within the box. The cards were not removed from the card cage for transit.
Ugh. I had a similar experience with an HP9100B recently. I sent
packing instructions, but the seller shipped before responding. The
seller put the 9100B (shown to be working) with printer attached, in a
flimsy box, partly wrapped in a thin single layer of small bubble wrap,
with a wad of newspaper on top of the keyboard. The box arrived more
oval than angular, with the printer mounting screws broken off. The
unit was no longer functioning on arrival. I could see an orange glow
inside the tube, so I think that survived, but there is no display, and
the unit is not responding to keypresses as expected. So now it's a
parts/repair unit instead of a working machine.
Worse, at least a couple of passengers traveled with the unit. When I
removed the cards to clean & reseat, I found a stinkbug nestled among
the components on a register board, and another in the box. I found a
third stinkbug in my office on the other side of the house a few days
later, but no more in the past couple of months.
Dave
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