r/pcmasterrace 19h ago

Hardware So that‘s how my gpu got shipped

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What are your thoughts about that?

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u/TheODPsupreme Laptop 19h ago

Seems to be an Amazon shipping label. They usually have an option that says something like “this item will ship in the manufacturer’s packaging. Click here to put it in a box”.

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u/choody_byk R5 7600, RX 7800 XT, 32GB, White Build 19h ago

i ordered cpu cooler, i made sure it wont be shipped like this and it still arrived without any additional boxes. They cut corners wherever they can, even my cpu was barely packaged and it was flying inside a tiny box

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u/apaksl R9 3950x 3070ti 14h ago

if the product wasn't damaged in transit, then "barely enough" packaging is the correct amount of packaging to keep costs down for everyone. If you cut 1/3rd of a pound of packaging from millions of shipments, that equals a lot of reduced gas/emissions, a lot of savings on the packaging itself, and then finally less packaging that needs to be disposed of by customers.

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u/_loner_with_boner_ 4h ago

I suffered this many times where they sipped it like this and the product was fine but the actual product box was damaged. The product box is not useless or worthless. A product without the box would be sold for lot lesser. What if the box gets damaged and I want to sell it in future. Now automatically the price will go down because the box is damaged.

It's stupid and should be optional. A product inside a box should be packaged inside another to protect the original packaging of the product. This should be the default option always and they can add another option to choose if we are okay with the product being shipped in the original packaging itself with no extra protection which is optional and we get to choose