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Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:35 pm
by Apoptosis
Well the system that I was going to be giving away on here on the site and Facebook arrived and after opening it up you can clearly see that it didn't make it...
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As you can see the video card isn't sitting right and the drive cage is blown out at the bottom.
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Yup, clearly got dropped...
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The top of the drive cage got ripped apart as both of the pressed in fittings got pulled out of the case.
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The PCIe slot has pulled away from the motherboard and bent down from the drop and the weight of the GeForce GTX 570 video card
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The case had some rattles and I found some spare parts.

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 8:05 pm
by NAiLs
Way to go FedEx! :shock: :roll:

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:49 am
by bubba
wow that sucks.

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:57 am
by Major_A
Ace Ventura deliver that package?

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 7:27 pm
by lordvic
Ouch...that's really disappointing... Can't you send a complaint and make them pay for the damage?

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:06 pm
by camaroguy1998
Thats hard to accept!
Was it insured???

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:20 am
by Sparky
What was FedEx take on it? Did they offer to pay for the damages?

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:50 am
by Apoptosis
It was insured, so a claim was started with FedEx... An investigator will be calling me by Tuesday to start the process.

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:57 pm
by Major_A
Just curious here, who built the system? Looks like a quality build all the way around. Lian Li, Antec WC, SSD, RAID, etc...

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:18 pm
by Apoptosis
GraVT built it and they are a subsidiary of LTMICRO.

www.gravt.com

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:53 pm
by omegadraco
FedEx is notorious and damages more items than any other shipping company :( To think they couldn't tell that it was a PC in the box.

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:24 am
by omegadoom13
That sucks! I wonder what the stats are for such claims. I pretty much doubt FedEx or UPS would want the public to know how many things they break during delivery. Good luck with your claim!

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:38 pm
by cableguyi7
aww, should have shipped video card in the retail box. and then stuffed bubble wrap inside :\. and then ziptie those cages together so they don't expand like that.
We do that at a major computer retailer here in Canada, not bestbuy nor futureshop. one that does custom builds and such

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:36 am
by Manduh
Oh no!! This is worrying me. I have a pc being shipped to me through fedex, I hope it doesn't arrive looking like that :(

Did you ever get this resolved?

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:39 am
by Apoptosis
Manduh wrote:Oh no!! This is worrying me. I have a pc being shipped to me through fedex, I hope it doesn't arrive looking like that :(

Did you ever get this resolved?
No clue... It was returned to Fedex for an insurance claim and they are building a new one for the winner that gets announced next week I think.

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:25 am
by pdog
What did the box it was in look like, just curious.

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:54 pm
by Manduh
Apoptosis wrote:
Manduh wrote:Oh no!! This is worrying me. I have a pc being shipped to me through fedex, I hope it doesn't arrive looking like that :(

Did you ever get this resolved?
No clue... It was returned to Fedex for an insurance claim and they are building a new one for the winner that gets announced next week I think.
Well that's good, it takes the problem out of your hands :)

Also good news, I got my computer that was shipped buy Fedex and it arrived safely :D

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:55 pm
by JMMD
Our fedex guy drops the boxes from waist height when he delivers stuff. I shudder to think what happens at the distribution centers.

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:11 pm
by Manduh
Do you think it was the same Fedex guy as this?:



This guy should be fired!

Re: Shipping Damage - When FedEx Drops a PC

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:13 pm
by FZ1