I've been looking for a pair of Pioneer CS-R700s for over a year and I found some on ebay last week, in beautiful shape, so I snagged them right away.
They arrived Saturday and although the shipping boxes appeared undamaged, the contents were not. The shipper did a piss poor job of packing them - a couple of layers of bubble wrap, wrapped in cardboard, placed in non-heavy duty cardboard boxes, and some crumpled brown paper as filler. No additional bubble wrap, no peanuts, no foam insulation. I could feel the speakers rattling around in their boxes.
Opened them up and found both had at least one crushed corner. One speaker had something rattling around inside it which turned out to be the horn midrange's neck snapped in half.
Seller claims he's shipped lots of speakers with no problems, but I can't see how. I shipped a SX-737 a couple of months ago and used twice the bubble wrap and lined the box with 2" rigid foam. Arrived perfect.
At least the seller is going to refund everything.
So disappointed I could cry. What a waste.
Pictures below so you can cry too.
They arrived Saturday and although the shipping boxes appeared undamaged, the contents were not. The shipper did a piss poor job of packing them - a couple of layers of bubble wrap, wrapped in cardboard, placed in non-heavy duty cardboard boxes, and some crumpled brown paper as filler. No additional bubble wrap, no peanuts, no foam insulation. I could feel the speakers rattling around in their boxes.
Opened them up and found both had at least one crushed corner. One speaker had something rattling around inside it which turned out to be the horn midrange's neck snapped in half.
Seller claims he's shipped lots of speakers with no problems, but I can't see how. I shipped a SX-737 a couple of months ago and used twice the bubble wrap and lined the box with 2" rigid foam. Arrived perfect.
At least the seller is going to refund everything.
So disappointed I could cry. What a waste.
Pictures below so you can cry too.