-1 TAM :(
Posted by DeliveryUnhappy5082@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 32 comments
I was able to get myself second Apple Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Unfortunately, it was packed poorly. It didn't survive the journey. The plastic was broken, the screen shattered. The computer won't boot :(
PikwikHazel@reddit
That’s unfortunate. Hopefully you’ll be able to at least get a refund. If you plan on repairing it, it’s worth noting that it shares the same screen as a PowerBook 3400c
DeliveryUnhappy5082@reddit (OP)
I won't even try; the computer was floating around in a box that was too big. By the time it arrived, the base legs were already outside. I honestly don't have the energy for this right now... I'm terribly disappointed.
I'm still debating what to do next: should I sell the pieces individually or try to save it? Finding the plastic parts will be harder than winning the lottery.
PikwikHazel@reddit
For now I’d try to bond the pieces back together. It’s the least you can do until you can find a parts unit to Frankenstein together
AppropriateCap8891@reddit
About a year ago, a Youtuber known as LGR managed to get his hands on a unique and rare 1980s laptop. And when it arrived, the thing had been shattered in transit. And he managed to get help from the community to fix or replicate everything that had broken in shipment.
cromorne@reddit
Love Clint and LGR! His channel is one of my all time favorite tech channels.
VaughnSC@reddit
Those plastics may be modeled and 3D printed. The trick will be to color match the bronze paint.
Someone mentioned the screen is a PB 3400 part, possibly the keyboard and trackpad parts as well; the rest of the guts are from a Performa 6400 if I recall.
SistersOfTheCloth@reddit
i wish Apple would bring back the rainbow apple symbol
RFC793@reddit
I got a vinyl sticker for my MBP to give it the retro vibe. Outside of nerd friends, people thought it was a pride flag.
FAMICOMASTER@reddit
Been a bad week for old machines I guess. I managed to bork a pretty rare copier the other day :(
jcr1985@reddit
We got one of those in the company. What are they worth?
This-Requirement6918@reddit
These are one of the most collectable Macs made. I think these were one of the first computers with a TV tuner iirc. (Definitely not an apple person so I'm not sure)
hamburgler26@reddit
It also has the distinction of being Alfred's personal computer in Batman and Robin!
StoolieNZ@reddit
And one of Jerry Sienfeld's by the window.
mcds99@reddit
It was that way before they shipped it, its a scam.
LaundryMan2008@reddit
Time to use paperclips as rebar bracing and then epoxy as the concrete to glue the broken plastic pieces together
bagpuss_org@reddit
Oh wow I saw this on Marktplaats earlier. I hope someone gives you a good price for it and can somehow restore it!
Object120taran@reddit
Already saw someone bidding 300, so depending on what he paid originally.
starcube@reddit
Sellers who think a sheet of paper and some peanuts is enough to pack a heavy, expensive item should be sent in a box packed just like that across the country via FexEx. My condolences.
Parking_Jelly_6483@reddit
I learned my lessons about poor packing with the damage to several items. A top-of-the-line laserdisc player. The seller (eBay) wrapped it with a couple of sheets of newspaper. The listing photos showed it to be pristine. Not when I got it. Whole front cracked. Not working and would not even power on. Not insured. Reported it to eBay. The seller did a partial refund by convincing eBay that it could be “used for parts” so still had value.
A microscope that I’d been looking for for years. The eBay seller actually did a good job of packing but his mistake was not removing the trinocular head from the limb of the stand. A drop resulted in the top of the limb being sheared off by the momentum of that trinoc head when the box dropped. My fault for not telling him to remove the trinoc head and pack it by itself in the box so I couldn’t and didn’t ask for a refund.
I had a rare Shuttle Spacelab computer (a flight spare in the original shipping container - like a fitted one of those mil-spec Hardigg cases). I had actually seen it at my friend’s place who swapped it to me and it was in expected like new condition. Did not arrive that way. No damage or even scuffs on the shipping case, but the computer had the end with the rack handles caved in. I’ve no idea how that happened. My friend is honest - he did not drop it before packing in the shipping case. Fortunately, he had a computer that had been partially cannibalized for parts and so had a spare end panel with the handles. He shipped that to me and I repaired the computer.
I had a seller on eBay ship me two microscope parts (a microscope camera and an objective lens). Both were put in plastic bags and then both were put in the same box with styrofoam “peanuts”. The camera arrived OK, but the objective had a cracked lens. A photo of the objective on the listing showed that lens to be fine.
Think packing two or more items in styro peanuts with minimal padding around each item is OK? Try this. Take a box, fill it with stryo peanuts, put a rock on top and add some more styro fill. Tape it up and then shake it. That rock will wind up on the bottom of box (whatever side was down when you shook the box) or at least the middle. Stuff can move unless you really pack the peanuts in very tightly. So the two pieces in the box sent to me crashed into each other during transit. If I ship multiple items in a box, each goes in a smaller box by itself with padding in each of the boxes and an address label on each. I do that because a friend of mine shipped a camera in a box and the person who received it said the box was empty and there was a large tear on one side. FedEx denied the claim saying “inadequate packing”. So, I usually double-box things with a shipping address label on the inner box as well as the outer. My friend had to refund the whole sale amount.
A thing I learned from a trucker. Most people will mark a box “This side up” for something that would be better loaded on a truck with that side up. The trucker told me, “It’s better to put on the BOTTOM of the box, “This side DOWN” because if the “this side up” side winds up being on the bottom when loaded, that message won’t be seen. If the “this side down” note is “up”, then it will be seen.
isecore@reddit
They should be packed in a box like that and then sent down the Niagara falls.
jefbenet@reddit
well...fedex is half the problem in that scenario
DeliveryUnhappy5082@reddit (OP)
Probably 1 layer of bubble wrap and thin box 2x bigger than computer was the issue.
jefbenet@reddit
That’s absurd! Proper packaging isn’t cheap but def necessary.
I was remarking more in general terms about the bad luck we’ve had with fedex deliveries.
DeliveryUnhappy5082@reddit (OP)
Fun Fact. The elderly person who sold me this computer asked a friendly computer repair shop for help with shipping. I'm increasingly getting the impression that it wasn't packaged this way by accident... This is what the dear Dib*** company from France is all about. Shame on you!
starcube@reddit
That wasn't the point of my post... every shipper handles packages the same way.
eulynn34@reddit
This is a tragedy
existence_is__@reddit
Wow! I've never seen a Mac like that before. I just looked it up, 20th anniversary, I'm surprised I've never seen these before. The design is very interesting.
billyfudger69@reddit
You can glue the plastic back together with superglue and baking soda.
DeliveryUnhappy5082@reddit (OP)
Fun Fact:
The elderly person who sold me this computer asked a friendly computer repair shop for help with shipping. I'm increasingly getting the impression that it wasn't packaged this way by accident... This is what the dear Dib*** company from France is all about. Shame on you!
GoodTofuFriday@reddit
Id try and fix it if you wanna make a trade of some sort.
DecentlySpaghetti@reddit
Shit happens. How much did you pay for it?
rebo2@reddit
Dammmmn n nnnnn