Ebay Packing Jobs

[Stuart Birchall]

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Ebay Packing Jobs


> On 12-Feb-05 at 09:02 Pete Bartusek wrote:
>
>>My favorite ebay packing job was a 5.25" disk drive I received, packaged
>>in twigs.  Yes, a box, a pile of twigs surrounding a plastic apple 5.25"
>>drive...
>
> <snippety>

The worst packing job i've ever seen was from a customer who had returned an 
end of lease firewall (a gnatbox GB1000 if anyone knows these things). There 
was basically no packing at all, the guy had just attached a sticky label 
with our address on the lid of the unit! It arrived badly scuffed and with 
bits rattling inside. On inspection, the heatsink of the PIII CPU had 
crushed the corner of the chip and destroyed it.

I did once post an sgi indigo to some guy wrapped in an old parka jaket with 
a layer of brown paper on the outside, back when I was a student...

Stu