Nice giant post... But in this case, it's you at the body shop having a finished product, a complete 100% in good repair car, and slamming a hammer through it to attach a sales contract because you didn't have any tape on hand.
No it's not. Very small rocks on the ground were enough to damage parts, inside their packaging, for parts that were so large that they could only be dragged across the floor.
This is precisely what I'm talking about. Most people have no clue what's involved with mass shipment of products, and the absolutely shit level of protective packaging some manufacturers put their stuff in.
I mean Im involved with import export manufacturing on the container level so I know what youre talking about but even i dont think theres anything wrong with nintendos packaging. You can complain about greed but the fact is the packaging works? If some idiot hadnt stapled the boxes, the consumer would have received a working switch 2 like everyone else did
Do you inspect products before and after transit, to check for damage at the end point? There's a certain level of protection a package has to provide when it's moved individually by actual people, and not in containers, box trucks, or forklifts (where very little can be done to protect contents due to industrial mishaps), so that minor things like a staple, a rock on the ground, or a momentary impulse of force will damage the interior contents. Cheap packaging produces a lot more damaged products at the end point, but companies keep making cheap packaging because pennies saved over bulk boxing results in a slightly higher amount than replacing the damaged contents, because a lot of that damage burden is placed on middle men (like GameStop in this example).
The excuse that most people in this thread keep saying is that "but all electronics are now packaged like that", tacitly suggesting that nothing happens to electronics due to less protective packaging, which is false, and that it's fine because everyone does it, which is also false. Lots and lots of electronics get damaged in transit due to cheap packaging.
I don't disagree that the GameStop in question should have checked the contents before stapling something to the box, but the very need for them to check how bad the packaging is highlights how bad the problem actually is. If the contents were properly protected, they wouldn't need to check to see if a staple would damage it, because electronics used to be protected by foam or cardboard inserts to keep them away from the outside surface of the box.
But, what is worse to you, a single store's momentary incompetence damaging a product, or entire sectors becoming cheaper over time resulting in the damage seen from that store's momentary incompetence? I think the malignant greed of companies and the steady cheapening of society is far, far worse.
I dont get to inspect after transit because its in consumer hands by then. But if theres a problem ill definitely end up hearing about the claim. And even when moving by forklift or such, theres multiple steps where it can go wrong.
To give you a better idea i deal with furniture, so big bulky items. Packaging has to be impt for that because theyre heavy and expensive. It costs more to replace it than it does to bulk up the packaging. Otoh bulking up packaging also means it takes up more cubic space in a ctr meaning less loadability so you cant go overboard either. Plus packaging costs money, so thats another reason not to go overboard
With that being said. If my packaging had as little problems as nintendos did , I would consider that a win. And i consider the whole thing solely gamestops fault
Nice giant post... But in this case, it's you at the body shop having a finished product, a complete 100% in good repair car, and slamming a hammer through it to attach a sales contract because you didn't have any tape on hand.
No it's not. Very small rocks on the ground were enough to damage parts, inside their packaging, for parts that were so large that they could only be dragged across the floor.
This is precisely what I'm talking about. Most people have no clue what's involved with mass shipment of products, and the absolutely shit level of protective packaging some manufacturers put their stuff in.
I mean Im involved with import export manufacturing on the container level so I know what youre talking about but even i dont think theres anything wrong with nintendos packaging. You can complain about greed but the fact is the packaging works? If some idiot hadnt stapled the boxes, the consumer would have received a working switch 2 like everyone else did
Do you inspect products before and after transit, to check for damage at the end point? There's a certain level of protection a package has to provide when it's moved individually by actual people, and not in containers, box trucks, or forklifts (where very little can be done to protect contents due to industrial mishaps), so that minor things like a staple, a rock on the ground, or a momentary impulse of force will damage the interior contents. Cheap packaging produces a lot more damaged products at the end point, but companies keep making cheap packaging because pennies saved over bulk boxing results in a slightly higher amount than replacing the damaged contents, because a lot of that damage burden is placed on middle men (like GameStop in this example).
The excuse that most people in this thread keep saying is that "but all electronics are now packaged like that", tacitly suggesting that nothing happens to electronics due to less protective packaging, which is false, and that it's fine because everyone does it, which is also false. Lots and lots of electronics get damaged in transit due to cheap packaging.
I don't disagree that the GameStop in question should have checked the contents before stapling something to the box, but the very need for them to check how bad the packaging is highlights how bad the problem actually is. If the contents were properly protected, they wouldn't need to check to see if a staple would damage it, because electronics used to be protected by foam or cardboard inserts to keep them away from the outside surface of the box.
But, what is worse to you, a single store's momentary incompetence damaging a product, or entire sectors becoming cheaper over time resulting in the damage seen from that store's momentary incompetence? I think the malignant greed of companies and the steady cheapening of society is far, far worse.
I dont get to inspect after transit because its in consumer hands by then. But if theres a problem ill definitely end up hearing about the claim. And even when moving by forklift or such, theres multiple steps where it can go wrong.
To give you a better idea i deal with furniture, so big bulky items. Packaging has to be impt for that because theyre heavy and expensive. It costs more to replace it than it does to bulk up the packaging. Otoh bulking up packaging also means it takes up more cubic space in a ctr meaning less loadability so you cant go overboard either. Plus packaging costs money, so thats another reason not to go overboard
With that being said. If my packaging had as little problems as nintendos did , I would consider that a win. And i consider the whole thing solely gamestops fault