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OK, the shipment arrived today. And just like I expected, they fscked up. Again. The pallet they used looks like it was slapped together from scrap lumber and was practically falling apart as the delivery men hefted it up onto the loading dock. Because the pallet was falling apart, they *almost* dropped the whole thing onto the ground. Don't ask me why they insisted on lifting it instead of using their lift gate! I guess it was too much trouble to properly park the truck against the dock. If this had been a proper pallet this wouldn't have been a problem. OK, so I get a look at how they "packed" the item to prepare it for shipment. The Onyx is just sitting on the pallet, not strapped down to anything. The Octane2 and sirius video box (which were my two other dovebid lots that I *requested* be shipped by ground, but my request was ignored and I wasn't informed of this until it was too late to do anything about) were just saran wrapped onto the pallet. As a result, the O2 -- which was looking cosmetically quite clean in the dovebid photos -- is now covered in scuffs and scratch marks all over the case. The sirius box is fine, but since its basically a big metal rack mount box I wasn't worried about that in the first place. The onyx -- which as very fragile plastic skins -- was only protected by one or two layers of bubble wrap and then saran wrapped all around. Compare this to the other Onyx that I had delivered yesterday. That Onyx was vinyl strapped to the pallet. Then styrofoam was placed around all sides of the unit and a cardboard "crate" created around the styrofoam and then this was all strapped to the pallet again. I couldn't imagine two more clear examples of how to do things the right way and the wrong way. I consider myself damn lucky that the Onyx delivered today didn't become a big pile of scrap metal. Given that this whole experience was one big Mongolian cluster fsck that the CTS that y'all knew and love is no more. Craters & Freighters was about the same price as these people and put *much* more care into packing items for shipment than CTS. It appears that "careful packing for shipment" to them means just put 4 more layers of saran wrap around it and calling it "good". I'll definately never use them again. Thank the dogs for capitalism so that I have other choices. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>