Some bloke in Australia ordered a 10 ft power cord from HP and was quite surprised to see how it was packed when it arrived. Youd think he ordered a 2U server or something, judging by the size of the box and pallet. Those of you that complain about the way things are packed from online vendors should be careful: you just may get what you ask for.
That's just totally amazing -- guess that can happen with computerized shipping - the system just grabbed the box that the part was located in and shipped it.
(i hope that's the case because I cannot believe that a PERSON would ship a power cord inside that huge of a box and crate it...)
Just for shits 'n' giggles, I'd file an RMA claim stating that the item was damaged in shipping... (Or you could say the item wasn't even in the box(es)... that actually sounds plausible...)
I'm thinking that the order probably included other pallets (dell ships larger servers on pallets). Instead of shipping the cord separately, some clown may have decided to make sure the cord was not lost.
Delivered to one's apartment? I would be pissed off to no end if that got delivered to my palace for something that small.
Must be nice to live in a palace. Looking at the state of that box, I certainly would think twice before ordering anything more delicate than a power cord.
Another funny item is the fact that he said he had to drag it into the elevator, out of the elevator, and into his apartment. Que?? Just open it in the lobby and throw the pallet into the dumpster. Perhaps not a lot of common sense in that part of the world.
Yea that's what I was thinking. I once had an 18 wheeler deliver a treadmill to my house and there was no way I was going to haul that 200lb box through the door and drag it all over the house so I opened the box on the sidewalk and took the pieces in. Incidentally there was nothing else in the 18 wheeler, I thought that was kinda funny.
Well it does look like a pretty long power cord. If only Newegg packed their harddrives like that, I would be happy.
RMA the cord, pack it in a small box, inside a bigger box, inside a bigger box, strapped and shrink wrapped to a pallet, nailed shut in a crate, inside a shipping container, filled with millions of packing peanuts, welded shut, and air dropped by a boeing c17. that'll teach 'em
We had one of our fiber SFPs fail at work, RMA's it and Brocade sent us a complete Silkworm 4100 with about a dozen SFP in it. Not exactly the best use of their shipping dollars since they had all the documentation as it was an SFP not a fairly expensive fiber switch.
I had an incident a few months ago where I received an email with tracking info from a company I had ordered speakers from several months earlier that made it look like they accidentally sent me a second set. Turns out that after watching the tracking for a week, it ended up being someone else close by with the same name.
I ordered a monitor From HP and it arrvied by fedex or ups cant remember in nothing but it's retail box as protection It was a semi big 25.5 inch monitor but even the 30 inch I got somewhere else was double boxed.
I work at a place that ships single replacement caterpillar pcs of glass and that even has us beat lol. We only put things on pallets if its over (roughly) 5'x4'. Some people are wasteful. They could have had it laying around and needed to use it. Who knows.
Any chance they did it to try and keep the small item from getting lost in transit? Bigger box, inside an even bigger box, strapped to a pallet... Better not get lost!
I've had some stuff like that from newegg... before they started using bubble mailers... Like an SDHC card in a box by itself filled to the top with peanuts. box was a good size too, 8 x 4 x 12... heh...
It's possible considering the area where the package originates from. The company I work for ships a ton of items out of China. 99% go to Thailand while the remaining 1% ship to the U.S. We've never experienced any issues with small packages coming directly here nor have been overcharged for shipping.
A plausible explanation of why the power cord was shipped that way was posted to the original thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5235006&postcount=53
I work in a fairly large data center that uses HP exclusively for the servers, so I've seen them do some pretty excessive packing for things like power cords before (although never a full pallet for a single one). But the one that just floors me is this one, also on the Register. 17 boxes to "protect" 32 pages of a manual.