ebay global shipping program rant:
I mentioned it in my last posting:
Pitney Bowes and/or Hermes managed to deliver a 81103 signal board (the heart of the HP 8110A Pulse Generator signalwise) I won for $10 on ebay in a way making it useless for me because of the damage that happened to it due to poor packaging.
I have to admit that the cardboard package was really heavily deformed on one corner.. but with nearly no clearance inside the box the PCB had no chance.
After receiving several items through ebay's global shipping program my experience is mostly bad.
All except one piece of three 8110A chassis/devices and two 81103A signal boards have been damaged through shipping.
I have evidence of poor repackaging in one case where seller could show with own photos that pitney bowes had left padding material when repackaging.
I don't get it. Who needs them if it's safer to not use the gsp..?
Got full refund meanwhile.
Money back but the board is electronic waste now.