PSA: Don't use UPS to ship your stuff

[Cheesetogo]

FYI: All shipping companies fuck up sometimes.

 

[Meghan54]

Shipper's fault for crappy packing.

BTW....that's not a capacitor that broke off the motherboard. The capacitors are the round, silver can-looking things.

 

[montypythizzle]

Shipper's fault for crappy packing.

BTW....that's not a capacitor that broke off the motherboard. The capacitors are the round, silver can-looking things.

I think they are Mosfets on those new boards around there, but I am not 100% sure.

 

[Colt45]

it's an inductor.

 

[gaidensensei]

Nice, thanks for the clarification. Should I take the chance and post this or leave it alone? Would you do it?
It's got like a 5 degree bend from the top left side.

 

[Eli]

99% of the time, damage is due to bad packaging. You have to package for any scenario. If it's extremely fragile, box in box is recommended.

<-- ships tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry a day.

 

[Crono]

<-- ships tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry a day.

Where exaactly do you live/work again? :hmm:

 

[Colt45]

Nice, thanks for the clarification. Should I take the chance and post this or leave it alone? Would you do it?
It's got like a 5 degree bend from the top left side.

I wouldn't try it, the part that is broken is part of the regulator for Vcore.

 

[Eli]

Where exaactly do you live/work again? :hmm:

I live in Santa Fe, NM and work for a company that manufactures jewelry for national chain stores and mail order catalogs that shall remain unnamed.

 

[gaidensensei]

I wouldn't try it, the part that is broken is part of the regulator for Vcore.

Tenks, glad I asked first.

I live in Santa Fe, NM and work for a company that manufactures jewelry for national chain stores and mail order catalogs that shall remain unnamed.

I'll find out who you are.. spokeo.com will assist me.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I shipped an xbox 360 and graphics card each in their own box, surrounded by 4 layers of (big) bubble wrap, then an inch of newspaper and set in a box such large enough to hold everything securely in place. Box was taped on all corners. This didn't matter because by the time it got up to me (I flew up to the delivery location a few days later), the box had been *cut* open and re-taped, and I find my graphics card box dented. The graphics card PCB was bent, and the card was effectively broken. Since the Xbox 360 was a Christmas gift I didn't open it for another week only to find that the drive was malfunctioned. They would only reimburse me for the card. Luckily I bought the card used and reamed them a new one by finding a card that was over twice the amount I paid. Combined with Microsoft warranty replacing the drive for free I actually made a little money off the hassle. I would normally feel bad about that if it wasn't for the fact that UPS shouldn't have fucked up in the first place.

 

[yh125d]

I've had hundreds of packages from newegg and elsewhere delivered UPS, never had an indication of mishandling

 

[nageov3t]

idk, the damage to that motherboard box doesn't look commensurate with the damage on the actual motherboard.

one time, I bought something online and broke it like a day later. I banged up the box a bit and RMA'd it over getting damaged in shipping.

 

[MotF Bane]

Tenks, glad I asked first.


I'll find out who you are.. spokeo.com will assist me.

Yeah, definitely don't try to use that board.

 

[montypythizzle]

I shipped an xbox 360 and graphics card each in their own box, surrounded by 4 layers of (big) bubble wrap, then an inch of newspaper and set in a box such large enough to hold everything securely in place. Box was taped on all corners. This didn't matter because by the time it got up to me (I flew up to the delivery location a few days later), the box had been *cut* open and re-taped, and I find my graphics card box dented. The graphics card PCB was bent, and the card was effectively broken. Since the Xbox 360 was a Christmas gift I didn't open it for another week only to find that the drive was malfunctioned. They would only reimburse me for the card. Luckily I bought the card used and reamed them a new one by finding a card that was over twice the amount I paid. Combined with Microsoft warranty replacing the drive for free I actually made a little money off the hassle. I would normally feel bad about that if it wasn't for the fact that UPS shouldn't have fucked up in the first place.

Oh hey Obamarune.

 

[slayer202]

I always use USPS

 

[Crusty]

Looks like bad packaging to me, that box is NOT in that bad of shape. I've gotten stuff before where they had to place an entirely new box over the top of the busted one during shipping because it was unusable.

 

[InverseOfNeo]

Mistake #1: Not enough peanuts/bubble wrap along sides of the box. I prefer bubble wrap than peanuts as bubble wrap can recover easily.

Mistake #2: Re-using a box. People underestimate the structure of a box that has been previously used in shipping before.

 

[waggy]

Yeah i would be pissed at the guy that shipped it not UPS. It was packaged very badly.

 

[Miramonti]

The crushable box got crushed.

*snore*

 

[alkemyst]

UPS has been the worst for me. Your box would have failed though anywhere.

My UPS claim tag is over $10,000 in 20 years.

the rest of the shippers no where near that.