Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

[Antonio Carlini]

On 26/03/2021 08:24, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
> Assuming anything gets shipped at all. Perhaps they don't want to take 
> money
> from anybody too local who might cause them some grief.
Well eBay will want the seller to make a refund if the buyer complains, 
and location doesn't make any difference there. In fact it would make 
return postage more expensive (at the seller's expense). For a drive of 
this quality, as a seller, you'd celarly want it back if the transaction 
went pear-shaped :-)
> I note they ask £260.00 for "Economy Delivery (Economy Int'l Postage)" to
> the Netherlands "between Wed. 31 Mar. and Fri. 16 Apr". That's quite the
> markup on a bit of bubblewrap, a Jiffy bag, and a €7 stamp.
>
I think I'd want a tiny bit more wrapping for a hard drive than just a 
bit of bubblewrap. I know SCAN and eBuyer do just bubblewrap them, wrap 
a mailer around them and send them off, but when I sold drives on eBay I 
always sent them out in a foam-padded box with a cut-out. Then again I 
had access to those for nothing and I wasn't sending out hundreds a day.


I do have some RD5x drives and I'd probably want to shift the excess 
(assuming there is any excess after I get around to testing them!) but 
I'd be really reluctant to ship those at all. I have no idea how much 
shock-proofing they would need to withstand the 1.5m drop that the 
parcel carriers all quote!


Antonio



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