A friend has been off Ebay because he was nearly beside himself after
doing the same as you specify here for a beautiful Burroughs glass sided
calculator. It arrived in an manner nearly identical to the one in
David's package.
The vendor claimed no liability to do what he took money for and refused
to deal with it. It is hard to do anything to vendors that will get
thru to them if Epay won't force them to perform with a special
requirement with consequences to enforce these after buy agreements.
the observation about UPS is especially true, they will try and say
anything to escape paying. Unless they loose the package expect an
argument on anything, they are thieves. Nothing to do but avoid them on
shipping. Actually freight or Postal is the best choice. For freight a
professional crate is your best protection, and my best luck has been
with postal people who don't really care if they beat a claim if it is
not patently BS. YMMV.
My real sorry is always the loss of good equipment to those who simply
don't care what they are shipping. I love to see it go to vendors who
actually seem to care, though that is no guarantee. I've had some bad
luck a few times picking what seemed to have been good vendors who
started to go to crap.
jim
On 9/10/2012 7:31 PM, Jerry wrote:
I ship and receive a lot of boatanchors (up to 100 lbs) and always request
and specify double-box -- first with two layers of large bubble wrap and
then use 1" or 2" blue R5 hard foamboard from Home Depot for all 6 sides of
the second box. I offer to pay for the extra packaging material as I figure
If it's not worth the cost of extra packaging then it's not worth buying.
Jerry
K1JOS
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