i can tell you of several horror stories i have experienced with shipping issues, sellers and packaging issueswith electronic equipment.
1. unit was in a high end motorhome that had a fire, units have some smoke damage, but functional... ya right... got both units and when opened up they looked like there was a thermonuclear event contained within the case.. probably what caused the motorhome fire!
2. such poor packaging that one of the inverter units was hanging half out the corner of the carton/box the main unit was shipped in.
3. my favorite... a $10k inverter system, well packaged, i witness the fedex driver show up at my house, walk to the back of the truck, slide open the door, climb in and pitch the box out onto the pavement, clearly about 6ft at the apex of trajectory before slamming down on the asphalt, flat on the bottom.... i was horrified! and of course chewed the driver up so bad that from then on she would come to my door with packages carefully in hand to personally hand them to me... thanks to the sellers overly careful packaging, the unit was not damaged and worked just fine.
my thinking now, that i am on fixed income and not making as much as i did back then, if i want to buy something of serious value, i am going to buy a plane ticket is need be to personally inspect and test before i buy it, then i will package it for shipping myself!
bob g
1. unit was in a high end motorhome that had a fire, units have some smoke damage, but functional... ya right... got both units and when opened up they looked like there was a thermonuclear event contained within the case.. probably what caused the motorhome fire!
2. such poor packaging that one of the inverter units was hanging half out the corner of the carton/box the main unit was shipped in.
3. my favorite... a $10k inverter system, well packaged, i witness the fedex driver show up at my house, walk to the back of the truck, slide open the door, climb in and pitch the box out onto the pavement, clearly about 6ft at the apex of trajectory before slamming down on the asphalt, flat on the bottom.... i was horrified! and of course chewed the driver up so bad that from then on she would come to my door with packages carefully in hand to personally hand them to me... thanks to the sellers overly careful packaging, the unit was not damaged and worked just fine.
my thinking now, that i am on fixed income and not making as much as i did back then, if i want to buy something of serious value, i am going to buy a plane ticket is need be to personally inspect and test before i buy it, then i will package it for shipping myself!
bob g