The Original i30 Owners Club
GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Random Chit Chat => Topic started by: AlanHo on September 22, 2017, 15:29:24
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You would think in this day and age where recycling is the done thing – that major retailers would get the message and be economical with packaging.
This parcel arrived today from Amazon containing a steel breaker bar for undoing stubborn car wheel nuts. The bar is 75 cm long and one end is 3 cm diameter. The box measured 80 x 50 x 15 cms and all that packing paper inside it did nothing – the bar was bouncing freely within the box.
This is not the worst example I have seen – it’s just the latest. I bet all readers can tell similar stories
I’m now left with the task of getting rid of the box and its stupid packing paper content.
(https://i.imgur.com/S4sVV3M.jpg)
Give Amazon one of your groans andsome.
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I've ordered a new Teng Tools torque wrench to start replacing some of my conveniently lost tools my brother was supposed to return from the US with :disapp: I wonder if it'll come in a giant box like Alan's one did :undecided: and that's if it arrives at all.
Aus Post sent me a package collected email this morning and I noticed they've got the address wrong :head_knock: after calling Aus Post then Ebay and finally Industrial World to discover it's been wrongly addressed by Industrial World :rolleyes: they seem to be quick on rectifying the stuff up though and were very apologetic.
(https://i.imgur.com/Ux8cz7j.jpg)
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Geez mate.
Aldi has them for $20. :mrgreen:
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Geez mate.
Aldi has them for $20. :mrgreen:
Yeah I noticed their $29.99 cheapy, that's what reminded me that I need to get a new one.
Just need one a bit better that Aldi's...I've had a friends elcheapo torque wrench give way on me before and it bloody hurts :Ouch: :)
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Al,
That is a long bar isn't it ? :evil:
Could even be called a weapon.
Hope you can stash it somewhere in th car till needed .
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Those Teng Tools torquing trinket traders tactfully try to trap telecomputing trekkers to transfer two tenners towards temporary tenant territory typically tied to toxic trash trafficking. :confused:
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:crazy1: :lol:
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You got that down to a T gonz.................... :rofl: :rofl:
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You got that down to a T gonz.................... :rofl: :rofl:
:judges:
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Those Teng Tools torquing trinket traders tactfully try to trap telecomputing trekkers to transfer two tenners towards temporary tenant territory typically tied to toxic trash trafficking. :confused:
Does that work in Spanish?
:whistler:
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Does that work in Spanish?
Tough to translate, Trev.
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:lol:
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I order quiet regularly snooker cue tips from America and they persist to charge me huge prices to send them......so what do they send something that is 10mm round and weighs a couple of grams, a A4 padded bag and charge me $29US for their troubles...... :crazy1:
EDIT>>>> I should clarify that the $29US was for the postage only and not the cue tips....
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I think they recycle there, trash ( old box's they would normally throw out ) as you pay postage not them.
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I order quiet regularly snooker cue tips from America and they persist to charge me huge prices to send them......so what do they send something that is 10mm round and weighs a couple of grams, a A4 padded bag and charge me $29US for their troubles...... :crazy1: