Postage Woes.. Share your experiences.

[TerrorTrooper]

In this sort of community, I'm sure many of you buy and sell electrical goods through the Internet on various sites.

On the selling side, I've been lucky enough to never have any items arrive damaged, and only ever had one item lost in transit. ( for the record, royal mails insurance is a nightmare to claim from).

On the buying side, we all take a bit of a leap of faith sometimes, especially when buying retro, or electrical goods in general. I'm curious as to others experiences of buying from the oracle we know as the Internet.

Ill start....

I bought 4x 22" LCD monitors of a certain auction site listed as "As new" in a job lot. Planned on 2 for me and 2 for the missus PC. After several reminders, they finally arrived 3 weeks later in 4 individually wrapped lots, wrapped in just brown paper, and here's the scary bit.. NO BOXES!! Just 4 monitors with a loose wrapping of badly torn paper!! Needless to say, they were wrecked!! All the corners were scuffed and damaged, one had the stand broken off, 2 of the power cables which were loose in packaging were missing, and unsurprisingly, all 4 screens were broken!! Well needless to say, I immediately contacted him, and his response was he wrapped them as per Royal Mail guidelines and it was my problem!! Well, needless to say PayPal had other ideas, and I was swiftly given a full refund. Seriously, it takes a special type of idiot to post delicate items in such a manor.

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Been there, had that too.

I bought a very rare CD on the other bay. The seller wrapped it well, used padded envelope and all, as much as I would have expected.

But then, Royal Mail :double

My post box is not big enough to get the package through. When I arrived home I found the postie had rammed it into the postbox so hard that it had not only snapped the case and CD in half, but he had also jammed it in there solid. It took me a good 15 minutes to try and work it out of there, so god knows how long he spent forcing it in and breaking it to begin with.

Cost me a bloody fortune too

 

[everblue]

Well, I try to avoid buying anything slightly heavy from the UK now. Postage from there to Malta is incredibly expensive.

 

[Nobby_UK]

Had a Big Flat Screen TV delivered by White Van Men
(companies do not do have their own these days)
which was cracked
When the replacement came they had to un-box it
to verify its condition b4 leaving.

Had many smaller packages come totally un-padded,
some fine others destroyed.

 

[Firthy2002]

Nothing so far has topped my Sega Nomad from t'other bay.
Purchased with a job lot of Genesis games from the US, the seller decided that everything chucked loose into a big box would be sufficient for transatlantic freight.
The Nomad arrived with a cracked screen. The seller also did a bunk, so no chance of partial refund or some other recompense.

At some point I'll probably get the screen replaced, but for now it lives in the loft, barely used.

 

[Powerpie5000]

Been there, had that too.

I bought a very rare CD on the other bay. The seller wrapped it well, used padded envelope and all, as much as I would have expected.

But then, Royal Mail :double

My post box is not big enough to get the package through. When I arrived home I found the postie had rammed it into the postbox so hard that it had not only snapped the case and CD in half, but he had also jammed it in there solid. It took me a good 15 minutes to try and work it out of there, so god knows how long he spent forcing it in and breaking it to begin with.

Cost me a bloody fortune too

I got told to f**k off by one of the Royal Mail Xmas temps after i had a go at him for cramming a full sized PC keyboard through my letterbox (a couple of days after he had already damaged a power adapter by forcing it through the letterbox!). He also lied by saying he had knocked a couple of times (although i do have a doorbell :roll... I saw him walk to the front and he didn't knock once! I have no idea how that little abusive cretin managed to pass the job interview!

 

[Chinners]

I got told to f**k off by one of the Royal Mail Xmas temps after i had a go at him for cramming a full sized PC keyboard through my letterbox (a couple of days after he had already damaged a power adapter by forcing it through the letterbox!). He also lied by saying he had knocked a couple of times (although i do have a doorbell :roll... I saw him walk to the front and he didn't knock once! I have no idea how that little abusive cretin managed to pass the job interview!

Lets not be nasty now Our local postie is a real good chap - not a bad word to say about him. I don't know his name, but he is good enough to warrant a tip at Christmas time.

Unfortunately, quite a few "xmas temps" much prefer to spend their life dodging any form of work, and are horrified themselves when they get accepted for a job. The thought of working for a living makes them, well - unhappy.

 

[Powerpie5000]

I got told to f**k off by one of the Royal Mail Xmas temps after i had a go at him for cramming a full sized PC keyboard through my letterbox (a couple of days after he had already damaged a power adapter by forcing it through the letterbox!). He also lied by saying he had knocked a couple of times (although i do have a doorbell :roll... I saw him walk to the front and he didn't knock once! I have no idea how that little abusive cretin managed to pass the job interview!

Lets not be nasty now Our local postie is a real good chap - not a bad word to say about him. I don't know his name, but he is good enough to warrant a tip at Christmas time.

Unfortunately, quite a few "xmas temps" much prefer to spend their life dodging any form of work, and are horrified themselves when they get accepted for a job. The thought of working for a living makes them, well - unhappy.

Our two regular posties are fine, but i'll never forget that Xmas temp (even a couple of our neighbours had problems with him). Young, scruffy with eyes that looked like two p*ss holes in the snow and a real nasty "chav" accent (not sure what else to call it?). Didn't even make me sign for recorded mail either :roll:. Absolutely useless and i hope i don't see him again at Xmas.

Rant over .