December 4, 2006

Buy.com’s hard drive packaging could use a little work

So on Friday, I received a new hard drive I bought from Buy.com. I bought this hard drive to install Vista Ultimate onto.

The box was pretty beat up, and it was rattling. This is what it looked like inside:

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I’m pretty sure that that’s not the right way to ship a hard drive. :(

Now, it’s conceivable that the “boots” didn’t fit and they simply slid off - but I have a feeling that they were never on as the boots were impossibly hard to get onto the device.

I wonder what the new MTBF is.

Posted by: dtc @ 2:28 am

2 Comments to “Buy.com’s hard drive packaging could use a little work”

  1. Mark Jen Says:

    Hey Dennis, check out this post I made about my terrible experience with Buy.com a while ago. It’s now the number one search result on Google for “Buy.com sucks”

    http://blog.plaxoed.com/2005/07/16/buycom-sucks-worst-internet-retailer-ever/

  2. dtc Says:

    Wow… nice find on those numbers.

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