Newegg packing quetion.

[Desslok]

Has anyone else received a package they ordered from Newegg with very little packing material inside? I recently purchased an XBOX 360 Halo 3 special edition and when I opened it up there was nothing but a bit of brown paper on the top. The XBOX's box had dented corners and looked terrible. I have purchased many a item from Newegg and this is the first time I can say I am disappointed in their service.

 

[MrChad]

Is the hardware itself in good shape? Just the box is damaged?

 

[Desslok]

I didn't want to take a chance so I am returning it and they promised to send another unit.

 

[MrChad]

How badly was the box dinged up? :camera:?

 

[eplebnista]

I have only seen inadequate packaging from newegg a handful of times. Mostly on single item purchases of motherboards when they were using FedEx as the default shipper (which I still wish they did). They would take the motherboard box and put it in a FedEx box almost the same size as the motherboard box and put a wisp of bubble wrap at the end of the FedEx box (which didn't do a thing to keep the motherboard box from sliding around). All that being said, every motherboard arrived in perfect working order.

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: MrChad


How badly was the box dinged up? :camera:?

+1

I received speakers from them in the OEM box, packed into a box x2 the size with a roll of packing paper to take up the space. The speakers worked but the roll of paper (size of my fist in a 18x18in box) was pathetic.

 

[fatpat268]

Actually, I find that newegg "overpacks" some things.

The only thing that irks me with newegg is that they sometimes ship in the manufacturers box for larger items, especially monitors.

 

[soydios]

Newegg has always filled my boxes up to the brim with peanuts.

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[intogamer]

Well for a Xbox 360 its pretty study as theres packaging materials inside.

I'm pretty sure they double boxed it because you'd don't want to get a dirty box from shipping. For example, speaker boxes you wouldn't care about.

 

[Kaspian]

Originally posted by: fatpat268
Actually, I find that newegg "overpacks" some things.

The only thing that irks me with newegg is that they sometimes ship in the manufacturers box for larger items, especially monitors.

The also do that with computer cases.

 

[Auric]

Their HDD packing is usually sub par -not even up to standard for returning broken drives to a manufacturer.