They send me about 30 invoices for the same order, then today I take delivery of a giant cardboard box expecting it to be a laser printer. Inside, cellophaned to the bottom of the box, is a USB cable. :lol:
I expect the printer will be delivered by a trunker, floating inside a huge box in an anti-gravity chamber, with inertial dampers. Talk about overkill.
Quote from: Clockd 0NeThey send me about 30 invoices for the same order, then today I take delivery of a giant cardboard box expecting it to be a laser printer. Inside, cellophaned to the bottom of the box, is a USB cable. :lol:
I expect the printer will be delivered by a trunker, floating inside a huge box in an anti-gravity chamber, with inertial dampers. Talk about overkill.
Someone has moaned, thats why they do it.
Back in my day, we used reams and reams of bubble wrap, none of this tear open box malarky. Everyone loves bubble wrap.
Quote from: Clockd 0NeBack in my day, we used reams and reams of bubble wrap, none of this tear open box malarky. Everyone loves bubble wrap.
My kids go mad, they love bubble wrap, the big bubbles are even better.
and boxes are better than toys.
He just aint happy unless he has summat to moan about lol :roll:
Same as Ebuyer... Huge boxes for individual packs of 10 cat5 connectors. Which weigh nothing and cost pennies.
First class in a normal envelope would do, not next day in a huge cardboard box.
I love doing that but with foam chips. Massive box, tiny item and tons of chips :D
Quote from: Clockd 0NeBack in my day, we used reams and reams of bubble wrap, none of this tear open box malarky. Everyone loves bubble wrap.
And when you have one hand that works, takes you reams and reams of minutes to get it off, lol. Then seconds for my dog to destroy
Reminds me of how you can make kids cry: get a box from a washing machine, duct tape 4 bricks to the bottom. Toss in a packet of gum, then fill with crumpled newspaper and add paper and a bow. Happy B-day little johnny! :D
Quote from: maximusotterReminds me of how you can make kids cry: get a box from a washing machine, duct tape 4 bricks to the bottom. Toss in a packet of gum, then fill with crumpled newspaper and add paper and a bow. Happy B-day little johnny! :D
Harsh :lol:
Quote from: Clockd 0NeBack in my day, we used reams and reams of bubble wrap, none of this tear open box malarky. Everyone loves bubble wrap.
No complaints here. :lol:
I was extreemly impressed how everything was bubble wrapped into one conveniant parcle. Most companies just send them in a box with those large armband like plastic bubbles.....things.
Bubble wrap ftw.
Jaimz :rock:
Aye bubble wrap is truly one of the worlds finest inventions. :cheers:
You still got that tek monkeys videos of you lot going down the bubblewrap stairs and you clocked tied to a chair in it?
Quote from: neXusYou still got that tek monkeys videos of you lot going down the bubblewrap stairs and you clocked tied to a chair in it?
Oh the days.
I havent :(
Of course, Im going to rehost it all at some point soon :mrgreen:
If only everyone except me and Dave hadnt chickened out of wheelie chair bubble wrap roll jousting...
youtube.
Bubble wrap stair diving:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGWC8CN2be0
Wheelie chair ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZLV9_iE_No
LOLZ
diving.
muffs.
Quote from: Clockd 0NeTalk about overkill.
More likely - they know
who theyre sending it to...;)
Thats a good point :mrgreen:
Quote from: Clockd 0NeThey send me about 30 invoices for the same order, then today I take delivery of a giant cardboard box expecting it to be a laser printer. Inside, cellophaned to the bottom of the box, is a USB cable. :lol:
I expect the printer will be delivered by a trunker, floating inside a huge box in an anti-gravity chamber, with inertial dampers. Talk about overkill.
Dell sent my brothers new 20 inch monitor in three boxes, one of which had a cable in that could have been easily contained in the monitor box and a second contained the manual? :shock: At least ten times the internal capacity that the book needed, they could have pushed it into a jiffy bag or included it in with the monitor too :/
TBH, I would let myself be fully warpped into a ball and chucked down a hill, that would be cool :)
Brainiac showed that you can chuck a tv out of a moving van on a race track wrapped in the stuff and it still plays so....
:twisted:
(http://xkcd.com/comics/hamster_ball.png)
Excellent.
I have now received my printer (after the first went missing in shipping) and they have kindly sent out another 5m Belkin USB 2.0 cable :mrgreen:
heh
i just got some stanley blades sent to me in bubble wrap.
LOLZ
its odd how dabs stuff tends to go missing or derlivered in a dodgy way.
My lan card for laptop never turned up and the guy signed it himself and chuked it over our fence if some of you remember, I found it wet, but sealed and ok, but since it was in the trees and passers by could have picked it up I said i never got it and got my money back ^^
Quote from: neXusits odd how dabs stuff tends to go missing or derlivered in a dodgy way.
My lan card for laptop never turned up and the guy signed it himself and chuked it over our fence if some of you remember, I found it wet, but sealed and ok, but since it was in the trees and passers by could have picked it up I said i never got it and got my money back ^^
There are a few companies where Parcelforce manage to find the house just fine, then a couple (including Dabs) where Parcelforce always seem to dump the packages at the post office without posting a card through the door and run, so as far as Im concerned they havent been delivered.
Do couriers act on different instructions from different companies?
sofar this week i have had 3 packages dumped outside my door with people knocking on the door :(
Quote from: Chris HQuote from: neXusits odd how dabs stuff tends to go missing or derlivered in a dodgy way.
My lan card for laptop never turned up and the guy signed it himself and chuked it over our fence if some of you remember, I found it wet, but sealed and ok, but since it was in the trees and passers by could have picked it up I said i never got it and got my money back ^^
There are a few companies where Parcelforce manage to find the house just fine, then a couple (including Dabs) where Parcelforce always seem to dump the packages at the post office without posting a card through the door and run, so as far as Im concerned they havent been delivered.
Do couriers act on different instructions from different companies?
As you say some fine others not and its highly dodgy to me, I swear there is some sort of reclaim issurance scam with failed derlivery going on or something.
Our storeman claims that all the comonent companies like Dabs, Misco, Ebuyer etc etc all use a shared warehouse and when you order from them all the do is collect it from the central warehouse. Is this true?
Quote from: Chuck NorrisOur storeman claims that all the comonent companies like Dabs, Misco, Ebuyer etc etc all use a shared warehouse and when you order from them all the do is collect it from the central warehouse. Is this true?
Dabs and ebuyer are not the same location as I know where both warehouses are and not in the same place
^^ Cheers!