On 06/18/2013 07:43 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
I've heard numerous complaints from people about newegg hard drive packing practice. People complain about bubble wrap instead of official hard drive packing materials, but I don't have any philosophical objections to bubble wrap as long as the bubble wrap is thick and well secured, etc. Recently, I ordered 3 drives. They arrived with a single layer of bubble wrap (not taped or anything). Some of the bubbles were popped. One drive works, and the other 2 were DOA.
I object to bubble wrap, personally, unless it's esd bubble wrap and you have a lot... like a lot. Drives should not be able to move at all within the box used to ship; if you are using loose packing peanuts, they can move.
But yeah. I am sad to hear this, though 'cause I had a bad experience with newegg and drives a long time ago, similar kind of story. But, then newegg made some big todo about how they were making changes to their drive shipping policy, and I started ordering drives from them again (but only if the price differential including shipping was such that I could sustain a 25% loss... so not very often.) - after that? they usually did pretty okay in drive packing.
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