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05-31-2009, 02:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | Great moments in packing/shipping
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05-31-2009, 02:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | That's for the new style racks. They didn't mention that when you bought it?
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis  Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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05-31-2009, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Jersey near Philly | | | I love it when that happens. I think the entire staff of UPS, FedEx, and USPS should go through mandatory anger management counselling so they stop expressing bottled emotions on expensive musical equipment.
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05-31-2009, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | This one was wrapped with only a layer of cardboard with a layer of bubble wrap around the body. It's bent at all four corners. |
05-31-2009, 02:42 PM
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Beta Tester: Source Audio. Hacker: Heavy Drone FX | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Spokane, WA. | | | Yikes...
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05-31-2009, 02:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | The seller waited seven days before shipping and was like "what? I'm going to ship it, don't worry." I sent a message today. I'll give him a day to respond before filing a claim. |
05-31-2009, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | Another TBer bought a bass that I was interested in and when the seller shipped it to him he only put the bass in its case, wrapped a couple of layers of shrink wrap (no bubble wrap) around it and then sent it Parcel Post. The bass is fine, but the case has seen better days.
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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05-31-2009, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | A friend purchased a bass case off ebay and the seller simply slapped the shipping label directly to the case on sent it off. |
05-31-2009, 02:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | Amazing, isn't it?
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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05-31-2009, 03:03 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stinsok This one was wrapped with only a layer of cardboard with a layer of bubble wrap around the body. It's bent at all four corners. | There ya go. People are always quick to blame the carrier when typically it's the shipper who doesn't bother to pack things well enough.
Shipping is rough on packages. No matter which shipper you use, they all have the same basic methods which involve multiple people handling packages as they're loaded and unloaded in various buildings, containers, cars, trucks, trailers, airplanes, etc. Those loads will shift in transit. Those packages will be exposed to pressure from other boxes, gravity, acts of God, the realities of deadlines, etc.
Good packaging will save everybody time and money, not to mention frustration.
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05-31-2009, 03:05 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | Does anyone have that picture of the bass head in the box that's packed with children's pool toys? |
05-31-2009, 03:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson Does anyone have that picture of the bass head in the box that's packed with children's pool toys? | Ah, yes. That was really funny 
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05-31-2009, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by L-A Ah, yes. That was really funny | But it probably worked very well. I used to work in the shipping department of a factory and it really isn't that hard to pack things well.
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05-31-2009, 05:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | | I bought a nice keyboard and mouse combo from a guy on a computer forum. He tossed them in a box that was at least 20x the size of them and tossed in a single sheet of the small bubble wrap. The sheet was about 2 feet long. It wasn't taped or wrapped around anything..just tossed in there.
Then one time I bought a VERY heavy commercial coffee grinder from a guy. He packed it in a box with about 1000 plastic grocery bags as the padding. They did nothing to hold this massive, heavy metal coffee grinder in place and it was hanging out the side when I got it...damaged of course. Plastic grocery bags?? Srsly?!
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05-31-2009, 05:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA / Missoula, MT | | | I got a bass that was shipped via UPS, the box was barely intact leaning against my door, in my apartment building hall where anyone could see it.
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05-31-2009, 05:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sumner,Wa | | | I bought a vintage trombone off the bay that had a case that was really just a wooden dust cover. Dude shipped it in the case and wrapped a couple pieces of duct tape around it. I have no idea how the case was somewhat intact when I got it, luckily the bone was ok.
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05-31-2009, 07:59 PM
|  | America's Favorite Hot Dog! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CHI/NWI | | | I am so overly obsessive about packing that it sometimes delays shipments a few days. I shipped a Mesa 400+ recently, and spent almost $30 and a whole day packing, testing and re-packing.
It made it to it's destination safe and sound. |
05-31-2009, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: GTA, Canada | | | Looks like your claim will be against the shipper, not the courier. Sucks for you but good luck!
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05-31-2009, 08:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | I already filed a Paypal claim against him. |
05-31-2009, 08:20 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by iamlowsound But it probably worked very well. I used to work in the shipping department of a factory and it really isn't that hard to pack things well.
lowsound | No it didn't, the amp was bashed to hell.
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