Right then, so today, the speakers I bought for my recently acquired JVC 5-piece box arrived. Thing is, they arrived in perfect condition but more by luck than any skill on the part of the breaker who sold them in the art of packing securely.
Inside the Citylink bag were two envelopes, one pair of the JVC speakers in each. By some pure fluke, none was marked or damaged and all are in the described condition but the packing was so bad that sharp braking by the delivery driver would have caused magnets to punch their way through cones or worse and as for securing these things within the courier's supplied outer bag - in the case of Citylink these are like bags for life but smaller and slightly thicker - none had been done; no card to separate the pair of speakers, nothing to stop their moving around, rubbing at each other and potentially worse.
So they turned up very quickly after buying, they are fit for purpose and they do the job too as luck would have it (the job being to stand in for my originals while I summon up the nerve to refoam those) but what would any of you do? Leave a neutral when the seller did at least send good items and accepted my cheeky low offer? Leave positive as he did for me but with a slight sting such as "Good item, quick delivery, intact in spite of packing technique" or message the seller before leaving feedback in an attempt to give him some subtle guidance in the art of packing delicate stuff?
He's a specialist Mazda MX5 and MG breaker, so although these JVC speakers were o/e dealer fit to MK1 MX5s he is more used to selling engines and other larger pieces of cars.
I'm toiling with this one as I got the stuff and all's good, but I don't like thinking of someone else buying from the same seller and experiencing the same standard (woeful) of packing as one of these days, some delicate bit of someone's pride & joy is going to arrive broken unless someone pulls the seller about this.
Inside the Citylink bag were two envelopes, one pair of the JVC speakers in each. By some pure fluke, none was marked or damaged and all are in the described condition but the packing was so bad that sharp braking by the delivery driver would have caused magnets to punch their way through cones or worse and as for securing these things within the courier's supplied outer bag - in the case of Citylink these are like bags for life but smaller and slightly thicker - none had been done; no card to separate the pair of speakers, nothing to stop their moving around, rubbing at each other and potentially worse.
So they turned up very quickly after buying, they are fit for purpose and they do the job too as luck would have it (the job being to stand in for my originals while I summon up the nerve to refoam those) but what would any of you do? Leave a neutral when the seller did at least send good items and accepted my cheeky low offer? Leave positive as he did for me but with a slight sting such as "Good item, quick delivery, intact in spite of packing technique" or message the seller before leaving feedback in an attempt to give him some subtle guidance in the art of packing delicate stuff?
He's a specialist Mazda MX5 and MG breaker, so although these JVC speakers were o/e dealer fit to MK1 MX5s he is more used to selling engines and other larger pieces of cars.
I'm toiling with this one as I got the stuff and all's good, but I don't like thinking of someone else buying from the same seller and experiencing the same standard (woeful) of packing as one of these days, some delicate bit of someone's pride & joy is going to arrive broken unless someone pulls the seller about this.