joaocunha
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Greetings, everybody!
I don't know if this section is appropriated to post but I would like to relate an experience I had recently, buying a pair of speakers at the trading post here.
Before we continue: the seller is a great guy and I'm not unvouching him or anything like that. We both are trying to find a way to repair the problem.
That being said, let's move on.
I bought a pair of 12" Eminence Lady Luck Speakers in past december, which arrived early january. I was waiting for them to handcraft a 2x12 cabinet following some top notch brand specs, so I was really anxious.
The seller told me the following:
With a big smile, I just sit down and wait. When the package arrived, I had a terrible surprise as it was completely crushed, as if it had been brought by feet by giant gorilla football players.
Actually, I saw this:
When I opened the package, I got this:
"A nice pair of Eminences", you say. No, not really. This is a closer look at the one at right:
"WTF?!", you say. Well, actually we both said that. "But the speakers were tied together at the frames!", you say now. Yes, indeed. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it, but the nylon ties have been CUTTED off, probably by customs personnel. Besides that, all the plastic air bags burst:
In the meanwhile, I bought a 12" Black Shadow speaker from another forum too, so I was praying to all sort of gods out there to ease the shipping this time. Thanks to Odin, I think, it worked.
What you are about to see now is how this speaker got packaged. Please compare both ways of packaging and the obvious result.
Nice little chimps brought it here this time:
Box-inside-box package, with two empty UPS plastic bubble envelopes protecting the top.
Pieces of styrofoam fulfilling the gap between the boxes.
The speaker, fine and dandy.
So I think we learned some simple lessons here.
1- Pack your stuff in a way customs can open it, view it, review it and finally close it again, without changing the "schema" of your packaging. The easier, the better.
2- Don't expect Customs personnel to retie anything. ANYTHING.
3- Plastic air bags aren't enough. I would recommend two different boxes with a little difference of diameter, one inside another, with the gap fulfilled with styrofoam pieces.
Sorry about any grammar mistake, english is my second language. I hope everybody can learn a little and probably get afraid a little too of sending heavy stuff overseas.
Cheers,
João Cunha
http://www.joaocunha.eti.br/
I don't know if this section is appropriated to post but I would like to relate an experience I had recently, buying a pair of speakers at the trading post here.
Before we continue: the seller is a great guy and I'm not unvouching him or anything like that. We both are trying to find a way to repair the problem.
That being said, let's move on.
I bought a pair of 12" Eminence Lady Luck Speakers in past december, which arrived early january. I was waiting for them to handcraft a 2x12 cabinet following some top notch brand specs, so I was really anxious.
The seller told me the following:
With a big smile, I just sit down and wait. When the package arrived, I had a terrible surprise as it was completely crushed, as if it had been brought by feet by giant gorilla football players.
Actually, I saw this:
When I opened the package, I got this:
"A nice pair of Eminences", you say. No, not really. This is a closer look at the one at right:
"WTF?!", you say. Well, actually we both said that. "But the speakers were tied together at the frames!", you say now. Yes, indeed. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it, but the nylon ties have been CUTTED off, probably by customs personnel. Besides that, all the plastic air bags burst:
In the meanwhile, I bought a 12" Black Shadow speaker from another forum too, so I was praying to all sort of gods out there to ease the shipping this time. Thanks to Odin, I think, it worked.
What you are about to see now is how this speaker got packaged. Please compare both ways of packaging and the obvious result.
Nice little chimps brought it here this time:
Box-inside-box package, with two empty UPS plastic bubble envelopes protecting the top.
Pieces of styrofoam fulfilling the gap between the boxes.
The speaker, fine and dandy.
So I think we learned some simple lessons here.
1- Pack your stuff in a way customs can open it, view it, review it and finally close it again, without changing the "schema" of your packaging. The easier, the better.
2- Don't expect Customs personnel to retie anything. ANYTHING.
3- Plastic air bags aren't enough. I would recommend two different boxes with a little difference of diameter, one inside another, with the gap fulfilled with styrofoam pieces.
Sorry about any grammar mistake, english is my second language. I hope everybody can learn a little and probably get afraid a little too of sending heavy stuff overseas.
Cheers,
João Cunha
http://www.joaocunha.eti.br/
