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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't get it. Who needs them if it's safer to not use the gsp..?
Got full refund meanwhile.
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Money back but the board is electronic waste now.
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