What is wrong with these people!

[GreggBz]

You all love these stories, here goes..

Does the person that shipped
THIS
freqent these boards?

I'm to tired to recap for the amiga community here, so I'll just cut and paste the e-mail I sent you.

Quote:
Hello,
   The Amiga arrived today. It's condition wasn't quite like you described it. I have some serious problems. Let's recap:

1.) All four screws for the monitor casing were missing. This caused the shell to completely separate during shipping, and exposed the fly-back transformer, and who knows what other potentially deadly shock hazards. Thank God I did not blindly stick my hand into the box to remove the packaging.

2.) The standoffs for the RGB port on the back of the monitor are missing and the connector is very loose. Also, the composite input is very loose. I can't get the cable to stay.

3.) I think the monitor itself is bad anyway.. It produces only a flickering black and red picture. The brightness/contrast controls etc have no effect regardless of which input I use. I know how to use the selection switches for the appropriate input mode.

4.) The Amiga is missing several screws. Additionally, it's missing the internal mounting bracket for the floppy drive.

5.) I'm not sure what is going on, but the floppy's ribbon cable was connected incorrectly. It was ajar on the motherboard side, and plugged into the floppy backwards. It looks like it was hastily taken apart and carelessly re-assembled. Hopefully, my initial attempts to power on the machine did not damage anything perminately.

6.) The LED connector had two broken leads.

Considering the inflated shipping cost I was charged, the packaging was sub-standard. This probably would not have been a problem if everything was screwed together tightly, but I'm afraid that all the rattling might have damaged the monitor and did who knows what to my poor Amiga.

It does not look like you shipped the package with insurance? I specifically asked for that.

Please do what you can to help me out here. I have not left you any feedback yet because you have yet to leave me feedback and well, you know how that works.

[GreggBz]

Yes, 1080 indead.

Well, I carefully opened it.. and both the RGB port and the composite input are seperated from the PCB.

Also, I did not notice at first.. (can't see forest for trees) but the heat sheild is missing!

Just what did he do with all the screws?

The composite out worked through my TV card, however I fear the drive is dead.. it spins very slowly.

[GreggBz]

The heat sheild on the Amiga.
Well the monitor does not have one either if it's supposed to.

LOL and the ONE screw that was in the Miggy.. well it's not original equipment. Looks like a American course thread wood screw out of some oak furniture.