My experience at Costco is the same as John's. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:49 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never seen that at Costco. > > Here, they just have a piece of printed cardboard on the display that > you take to the checkout. > > After you've paid for your merchandise, you show your receipt at the > cage where they keep all the other high value, easily concealable > electronics and they give you the cards in the same vacuum formed > packaging SD cards are enclosed in at all the other stores, which is > usually 5"x8" (12.5cm x 20.5cm), with a punch-out at the top so it can > be mounted on a peg. > > And every card I've ever bought at Costco had the SD card in the little > plastic case & the case was inside the vacuum formed packaging. > > On 6/26/2014 11:32 AM, John Mullan wrote: >> >> The answer to your question is Costco. The package many products on >> a large card, whether as a loss prevention practice or to keep >> smaller products from falling from their cart. I have seen this >> oversized packaging in Costco for many small products. >> >> jm >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Bipin Gupta Sent: Wednesday, June >> 25, 2014 11:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Interesting emails on >> SanDisk SDHC Card Storage Case >> >> Sharing info on the topic of providing a small storage case for >> SanDisk SDHC Card through cost reduction of the giant packaging fot >> the tiny card. The official reply from sanDisk - see last mail - >> makes me think it was sent to a village moron with no education or >> intelligence - why SanDisk uses a giant sized costly packaging >> measuring 15 x 10 inches for a tiny card. Read on:- >> >> My 1st email:- Dear Sir, yesterday the 22nd of June 2014 my son >> bought me a SanDisk 32 GB Ultra SDHC Card costing some CAD 31 for my >> DSLR from COSTCO. My son’s name is xxxx xx xxxxx and his Costco >> membership # is xxxxxx111813. The tiny card came in a HUGE 26 x 38 cm >> packing which would have costed quite a large amount of money. But >> alas there was no Card Storage Plastic Case or Pouch included?? How >> do we safely store the bare card?? What a SHAME that a big and famous >> company like SanDisk should package their Card in a huge and >> expensive contraption, yet leave out a little box to hold the card >> safely. That 26 x 38 cm packaging is a JOKE for a tiny SDHC Card. I >> own some 5 #s high speed SanDisk Cards which all came in their >> separate cases or pouches. The card cases also come in handy for >> inserting small notes such as “photos to be downloaded”, “format and >> use card”, or “ready for use”. I will now have to consider purchasing >> other card brands for my DSLRs. Thank you for your insensitivity and >> corporate greed. >> >> Reply from sanDisk:- Thanks for emailing SanDisk Technical Support. >> It is our goal to make sure you have all the resources you need to >> get the most from your product. My name is Brad and I am one of the >> supervisor with SanDisk technical support. I thank you for your >> valued feedback, this helps us to improve our customer service. I >> understand that your issue has not been addressed as per your >> satisfaction and I am sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. I >> would like to inform you that we provide plastic cases only with the >> Extreme line cards not with the Ultra cards. I would suggest you to >> to buy the cases from any online or retail stores. You can do a >> search for Jewel cases and you may find them on Amazon's website. I >> will surely share your feedback with the marketing team. Please reply >> if you need any further assistance from sandisk. >> >> My 2nd email as a reply:- Hello Brad, thank you for the fast >> response. I am afraid you have missed the point totally:- a) What was >> the need for a huge and expensive packaging? My God! a package size >> of 26 x 38 cm for a tiny card, when a smaller 10 x 150 cm packaging >> could have been sufficient, and the money saved used for a plastic >> case. b) A giant packaging just eats up more storage space at your >> warehouse and shelf space at the Retailer. Who pays for all this >> wasted money? The Consumer Mr. Brad?? c) Please note other >> manufacturers of high speed Class 10 Cards do provide cases. In fact >> all my older SanDisk cards came with black pouches or plastic cases. >> Now I don't remember whether they were Ultra or Extreme cards - all >> semantics and a bad excuse wrt to Sl. a) & b) above. Thanks for >> pointing me to Amazon and more money. >> >> Reply from SanDisk:- Thanks for emailing SanDisk Technical Support. >> It is our goal to make sure you have all the resources you need to >> get the most from your product. I appreciate your quick response. I >> would like to inform you that the packaging size is 26 x 38 cm >> because of the information that has to be there on the packaging. The >> terms and conditions and the policy information for the customers has >> to be there on the packaging. We no longer provides the plastic cases >> now with the Ultra cards. If you need the cases then you can buy them >> from any retail or online stores. Please reply if you need any >> further assistance from sandisk on this issue. >> >> I give up. >> >> Thanks for reading. 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