Don't pull on it so hard...it might break.

[Menard]

I received, in the mail today, a multi-band radio I had won on eBay.

It would have made a great addition to my collection.

I say 'would have' as in the attempt to free it from its excessive wrapping and taping (excessive shackles is what I told the seller), I broke the handle on it. I didn't see any need to additionally wrap the handle separately from the radio to which it is attached, or even wrap the whole damn thing that excessively with tape.

I can appreciate a seller taking the extra effort to insure that an item makes it safely to the buyer, but, come on, there has to be a consideration of how someone is going to undo what you have done.

Items I have received from eBay and Amazon sellers have been excessive in the amount of tape that someone uses to wrap an item; this time that excess led to the item being damaged in an attempt to remove it.

Have you ordered stuff, through any source, and seriously wished that whomever sent it would not have been so...uh...sadistic in how they packaged the item?

I have near damaged books and other items that were so excessively taped on the outside that I had to cut it free with a knife, not know whether I would be cutting into it or not.

I have received items that were just placed into a box with nothing more than newspapers or styrofoam peanuts and received them just fine.

I am going to adopt a new receiving attitude: the next time a seller sends me an item that is so excessively wrapped that I might damage it trying to extract it, or if I just really don't care to fool with it, I am going to return it to them with a note to either send it to me properly, or to issue a full refund, with shipping, to make up for the careless bulls**t they put me through.

Have you been irritated by this type of thing, or not?

[Allhallowsday]

  Tape overkill is a major pet peeve, particularly as a collector of paper "ephemera" who has had expensive pieces so badly wrapped that the seller was sure to damage the piece (like the $800 dollar windup toy where $700 of the value was in the impossible-to-find box in which the seller inserted the toy pointy angles and all, and then proceeded to wrap super tightly bubble wrap around the boxed toy - so hard the box was crushed against and penetrated by the toy...)     

How about the $80 postcard or $50 photo taped with 1001 strips of tape to a board (preferably already collapsing and threatening to bend the cargo ruthlessly shackled to it) that if not meticulously picked apart by a forensic team was destined to be destroyed just by the buyer's crazed frustration... !!! 

The photo shipped around the bend of a box...  (you think I make this sh!t up?!) 

The $150 package of diecuts shipped between two pieces of styrofoam packing (yes the kind that should have been around your MB radio) piteously inadequately loosely taped together and shipped in another box, loose with no packing, so that the brittle old package of diecuts slipped from between the sadly taped styrofoam and bounced around the inside of the bigger box... essentially, destroyed when I received it.   

There are a lot of numbnuts in this world.