Bad packing=broken Aiwa=

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Radio-Active

Radio-Active

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This was on my porch last week.Ebay canada. The ebuy seller gave me some refund.But I'm still out about $30. Oh well. This thing has some case cracks now,a smashed chrome corner,no power. And alot of slider/knobs fell off and out of the open box.
Seriously!? Folks gotta learn to pack a box for foreign travel. Oh well.
I have no idea what to do with this box.With too many already to let some busted up mutt into the mix.
 

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MyOhMy

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Dear me, this is terrible. and shocking!

An unwrapped beast like that rattling around in a flimsy box, it's nothing less than criminal. Name and shame is my first thought.
 
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ralrein1

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Yeah,I feel terrible for you man.It really sucks, when a great boomer gets messed up because some moron can't figure out that these things are semi delicate electronics.I mean how hard is it to figure out that you need to use big bubble bubble wrap and a good box?Also to make it so it doesn't shift in the box.As you can tell this has happened to me too.Probably its happened to a bunch of us here.Mine was an rx-5150.The guy wrapped it in two layers of little bubble wrap and then wrapped it in brown paper and clear tape!Needless to say it wasn't in any kind of good shape when it showed up.So you know,misery loves company.I only hope you can fix yours and get her running again.I'll be praying to the boombox gods for you.
 
BoomboxLover48

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Some boxes won't survive a sudden shock even if they are packed so well. Interior parts like transformer fall out, PC boards and all break.

Packing looks very bad plus there was no fragile label it.

That is very sad!
 
nikonfoo

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BoomboxLover48 said:
Some boxes won't survive a sudden shock even if they are packed so well. Interior parts like transformer fall out, PC boards and all break.

Packing looks very bad plus there was no fragile label it.

That is very sad!
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I always think a lot about the fragile handle with care sticker
i feel its a good idea
but on the other hand
I wonder if the underpaid delivery guy who had some problem in his life is going to see it and goes lets see how fragile and how well you packed
and doesnt understand you have paid over $100 to have this box delivered with love and care
POW :bang:
I often use fragile handle with care and in big letters
THANK YOU SO MUCH !
just fragile handle with care sounds like an attack on their handling and may stress them out in some way :afro:
:-)
 
BoomboxLover48

BoomboxLover48

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nikonfoo said:
I always think a lot about the fragile handle with care sticker
i feel its a good idea
but on the other hand
I wonder if the underpaid delivery guy who had some problem in his life is going to see it and goes lets see how fragile and how well you packed
and doesnt understand you have paid over $100 to have this box delivered with love and care
POW :bang:
I often use fragile handle with care and in big letters
THANK YOU SO MUCH !
just fragile handle with care sounds like an attack on their handling and may stress them out in some way :afro:
:-)
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Some maniacs laugh at that FRAGILE sticker and don't give any care at all! For that reason some people don't even bother to put one.

One bad apple in the handling chain of workers can destroy all the good work of the other handling people.

I have a collection of high end stereo tube radios. Double boxing and floating in styrofoam beads helped a lot. Basically the inner box well packed in styrofoam is floating in styrofoam beads. Many who didn't pack that was got broken dial glass because of chassis shifting in the radio. The and tuning and other axles move with the chassis and break the long dial glass.

I love the way one GX747 was packed for me. That guy is a genius. He made a mold with foam that can open. He covered the GX747 spool tape deck in plastic and made split molds with foam. He used two bags for this foam injection to make the mold.
 
crazygamer

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That's not even a packing there, that's just bollocks you got there, how come you pack anything like it ? Aiwa itself is nice, but you weren't lucky with parcel handler this time. I feel for you.
 
Radio-Active

Radio-Active

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It so hard because I'm a mailman & a radio collector.
If all delivery agents had fragile hobbies,then all parcels would be treated as fragile.
A pallet might tip over sometimes(!!!),but I've seen some very careless sorting.
I blame the seller and the sorters who didn't tape this box along the way(but they shouldn't have to).
 
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Gaffer

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I had the same problem. And I've been waiting 3 month for all this to be sorted with the insurance that was on the package. Still nothing yet.


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caution

caution

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That's a bummer Radio-Active, people just don't value what they're selling off I guess, it's horrible.

nikonfoo and Boomboxlover you're so correct, here's what a former UPS employee had to say:

Don’t Write “Fragile” on the Box
Just because you, like just about everyone else shipping something that could break, write the word “fragile” on the side of your package doesn’t mean the folks at UPS will put it on a special, pillow-covered conveyor belt that leads to a special truck where fragile packages are protected by air bags and armed guards.
Sarah points to the 2010 Popular Mechanics test that put sensors inside of packages and measured how much trauma they suffered en route. Some of the packages were marked fragile and in the end, those “received more abuse.”
“Why? Well, sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but some people in this world are just terrible,” writes Sarah. “And those people will actually treat your package worse if you write “fragile” on it. Maybe they felt that their ability to do their job was being challenged.”
She says the only way to get true white-glove service from UPS is to fork over extra cash to have your parcel escorted through the shipping process as a “high value” package.

http://consumerist.com/2013/11/04/no-one-cares-if-you-write-fragile-and-other-tips-from-a-former-ups-worker/
 
Radio-Active

Radio-Active

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I'm a private contractor for every single delivery company that ships here,and even some that don't.So I am responsible for most damage. If I see a bad pack I photo it and send it back to shipper. My town loves me for it. No matter what. I don't really see the deliberate injuries to parcels,but there is absolute carelessness during sorting spurred by the demands of near-overwhelming numbers of shipments. Even the nicest guys there are shuffling stuff around haphazardly.Plus mechanical sorters and bad driving.
I brought this Aiwa to the sorting warehouses and made some pretty crazy speeches. I got to say all the things you wish you could to your mail agents.haha.You woulda' been proud.
But it won't change a thing.
Bubble wrap and strong boxes are the only
weapons for this war.
 
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