Ya know, complaining about Amazon's packaging when they are largest online retailer worldwide baffles me. You get 30 days to return stuff- one of the best return policies on the planet- and you reap the benefit of all the other stuff Prime offers if you're a prime customer, especially for an avid reader like me that also is the main person buying tech for his immediate, extended and extra-extended family. If not a Prime customer, you still benefit from the scale of operation: a huge selection, multiple vendors selling through Amazon, fast shipping that is in many cases free, and everybody else's feedback since just about everyone leaves a review from their purchase. In fact, if you receive something or it is late or never shows, you can go into Orders and leaver seller feedback. Amazon customer service is pretty darn good (I've had to return everything from computers to furniture). Aside from that, every single item sold on Amazon has information on the web page you click "Buy" on. If any of it is suspect, don't buy it. If you don't want to run the risk of a 500-count tin with 490 pellets bouncing loose in the bounce, don't buy it. If you don't feel that money you saved and the promise of fast delivery isn't worth the risk of damaged goods, don't buy it. And then, even if you do buy it, you still have plenty of time to figure out if what you bought was worth it before the window for returns closes.The way everybody carries on about Amazon, I feel like I'm sitting in a Taco Bell driveway at 4 AM and people are complaining about Taco Bell in the car in front of me... Nobody made you get in the Taco Bell line, never mind there ain't any other offerings for a drive-through at 4 AM.
T-Higgs, my post wasn't directed at you. We all know what we get into buying from Amazon.Their return policy is great in my opinion. 30 days to try something and if unhappy, return it with on questions by large. Not many online retailers offer that. OR maybe they do. I know there's better return services out there, but not with a company offering even a quarter of what they do where you can just leave the box on your porch and have UPS come by and pick it up.I read a lot, so Prime works great. Never had only the last seven pages of an e-book show up. I did just start the return on a 1 TB Crucial SSD that was delivered today in a wet bubble-wrap manila folder. I opened it and the inside box clearly went swimming. And the laptop I order my mother 2 days ago arrived about an hour ago with a crushed corner. Guess what: it's getting returned as well- didn't even both opening to look inside So I suffer just like all of you. I just don't sweat this stuff. Amazon's customer service will make it right, and I have other more pressing problems in my life like my father (who just fell again and at 77, he's needs to stop doing that) so worrying about other stuff is small taters for me.About everybody leaving review: everybody I know personally (as IRL friends and family) who uses Amazon leaves reviews. That's a goodly number of people, but maybe my circumstances are unique. I rarely order something with no reviews, and generally gravitate to stuff with quality reviews, not fluffy or whiny reviews. Buying something without a review or just bad reviews can leave a person disappointed, but gambling can be fun, right? Maybe I'm weird (probably more than maybe!).I concur completely on the pellet issue. Hence I only buy sealed pellets (as per RWS- they run a line of tape around the rim) or tins that come in screw-top tins. I won't order JSBs or H&Ns on Amazon. That would be a lesson in futility. Trenier and PA are far better choices for those. But Amazon ain't the only guilty party here. Most online e-tailers don't pack like Trenier, PA, or AGD. I also agree with the baffling methodology used by their packers. "Hey, here's a 1 TB Crucial solid state drive costing $230-ish but it's smaller than a pack of cigarettes. Let's put it either in a bubble-wrap manila folder or slap it in a cardboard box that could hold a handgun safe!"- which is what heppened with my last SSD purchase But their packers are probably underpaid and underhappy. I know I wouldn't want that job, for sure. So while I feel the pain of trashed goods on delivery, I don't worry too much about it (though my $24 Pinty scope is becoming expensive for Amazon.... 5 deliveries thus far and waiting on #6!)Above all else, no hard feelings on the whole thing. Sometimes I feel like the stuff that makes me wanna knock the poo out of manufacturers bugs me and nobody else. And things like this headache of Amazon rattles a lot of you but not me. Makes us all unique, and that's not a bad thing.Jeff Bezos is certainly getting rich of us, ya know?
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