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(somewhat of a rant...)
Had a few packages come in over the season, not many though, just a few.
On Honey's '99 Caddy, a rear shock finally bit the dust and since it has 'Air Leveling' suspension the replacements are close to $500.00/ea. well....
Thankfully Monroe and a couple of others make a conventional Spring Equipped shock @ $109/pr.
So we ordered those from Amazon along with a couple of ACDelco front rotors since my attempt at turning the other rotors 3 months ago failed. (That's for another post...)
They came quick enough on a Saturday, even without Prime, but here's the rub. The shocks and (1) rotor came in a 10" x 16" x 32" box with only a single piece of shipping tape on both sides. The second rotor came on Sunday.
One piece of kraft paper tossed in for who knows what reason, so they banged around all the way from Hebron, KY.
The shocks were in their own unmarked box, but the ended had given out and one pack of mounting hardware was MIA.
Thankfully I have a lathe and drawers full of misc hardware, else I would have been up the creek.
I realize that packing items up in an Amazon warehouse is PureD H*ll, but you would think that the system would that spits out boxes and such would be properly programmed. The amount of waste in Amazon packaging is amazing. They really need to up their game.
Managed to get the shocks and rotors done while we had some nice weather and the ol' beast is doing much better.
Now for a -plus- note. Honey saw on a wish list that I has stashed some Pferd file handles. They were running some sort of nice cheap promotion on them if you bought something else and she went ahead and tossed them in with the order. So late Christmas goodies for me.
Look at how these were packed from Pferd - perfect, or is that Pferd-fect?
There was also plenty of bubble pack that I didn't show.
Had a few packages come in over the season, not many though, just a few.
On Honey's '99 Caddy, a rear shock finally bit the dust and since it has 'Air Leveling' suspension the replacements are close to $500.00/ea. well....
Thankfully Monroe and a couple of others make a conventional Spring Equipped shock @ $109/pr.
So we ordered those from Amazon along with a couple of ACDelco front rotors since my attempt at turning the other rotors 3 months ago failed. (That's for another post...)
They came quick enough on a Saturday, even without Prime, but here's the rub. The shocks and (1) rotor came in a 10" x 16" x 32" box with only a single piece of shipping tape on both sides. The second rotor came on Sunday.
One piece of kraft paper tossed in for who knows what reason, so they banged around all the way from Hebron, KY.
The shocks were in their own unmarked box, but the ended had given out and one pack of mounting hardware was MIA.
Thankfully I have a lathe and drawers full of misc hardware, else I would have been up the creek.
I realize that packing items up in an Amazon warehouse is PureD H*ll, but you would think that the system would that spits out boxes and such would be properly programmed. The amount of waste in Amazon packaging is amazing. They really need to up their game.
Managed to get the shocks and rotors done while we had some nice weather and the ol' beast is doing much better.
Now for a -plus- note. Honey saw on a wish list that I has stashed some Pferd file handles. They were running some sort of nice cheap promotion on them if you bought something else and she went ahead and tossed them in with the order. So late Christmas goodies for me.
Look at how these were packed from Pferd - perfect, or is that Pferd-fect?
There was also plenty of bubble pack that I didn't show.