- Messages
- 3,572
- Location
- ATH
We call this at work 'experience exchange', i.e. sharing of quality cases, successes, failures, peculiar damages or safety incidents we may have come across, etc.
So for the benefit of this community, here's another case:
Used brush arrives, original case/box to come later, seller wraps it carefully in triple bubble wrap coating and seals it with sellotape. The parcel itself is well set up and protected on the inside as per commonly used practices, no mess or untidiness on its internals. Very weird, vertical crack/scraping pointer damage observed in the handle upon delivery to buyer. Hard to believe, not easy to damage a handle like this even if one wants to.
Then there seems to be a 50mm long crack in the middle of one of the parcel's sides. Perhaps a very edgy object hit the parcel, penetrated it and also did the damage on the brush handle after possibly going through the brush's bubble wrap packaging. Can so many 'safety' systems used during packaging fail simultaneously?
Take a look at the pics:
Alternative ways of repairing the brush handle are currently being investigated (with the manufacturer but also with one of TSR's resident brush restorers).
Moral of the story so far: pack well, very well, and always use anything available as when item was produced by the manufacturer (e.g. original case/box). Nonetheless, never forget that even when you've done all that, unexpected damages may still occur. Seems like anything can go through those thick cardboard shipment boxes at one stage or another.
So for the benefit of this community, here's another case:
Used brush arrives, original case/box to come later, seller wraps it carefully in triple bubble wrap coating and seals it with sellotape. The parcel itself is well set up and protected on the inside as per commonly used practices, no mess or untidiness on its internals. Very weird, vertical crack/scraping pointer damage observed in the handle upon delivery to buyer. Hard to believe, not easy to damage a handle like this even if one wants to.
Then there seems to be a 50mm long crack in the middle of one of the parcel's sides. Perhaps a very edgy object hit the parcel, penetrated it and also did the damage on the brush handle after possibly going through the brush's bubble wrap packaging. Can so many 'safety' systems used during packaging fail simultaneously?
Take a look at the pics:
Alternative ways of repairing the brush handle are currently being investigated (with the manufacturer but also with one of TSR's resident brush restorers).
Moral of the story so far: pack well, very well, and always use anything available as when item was produced by the manufacturer (e.g. original case/box). Nonetheless, never forget that even when you've done all that, unexpected damages may still occur. Seems like anything can go through those thick cardboard shipment boxes at one stage or another.