Friday, January 21, 2005

What A Flamin? Waste

Packaging, I hate the stuff, but its so unavoidable. For the second time in recent months, my favourite PC parts supplier eBuyer has made me swear at the sheer ineptitude of their packaging. It?s a bit of a joke. Look, a pack of printer paper and two printer cartridges in a box the size of a small bath - none of which particularly delicate - but as the other 99% of the box's volume was padded out with air pockets, you wouldn't have guessed that.

Packaging overkill - what a waste!

Now, I finally decided to treat myself to a mp3 player (for doing the housework with). So that was part of the same order. Guess how that highly delicate piece of equipment arrived? It arrived in a single layer large thin board envelope. Just as well the actual box was pretty solid.

Not enough packaging

And before anyone asks, no it wasn't one of those ghastly iPod Shuffles. This one actually plays your albums in order. I'm looking forward to the iBook - it reads back the chapters of your favourite books in random order. That no doubt will be closely followed by the iDVD - you guessed it, it takes your favourite films and plays the chapters back in random order. Great selling point.

But I digress - this packaging is wholly inept, not to mention downright wasteful in an environmental sense. It can't be cheap for the company either. The value of the contents in the over-done box was about £8 - the barely protected mp3 player was a fair bit more - obviously they'd rather replace the more expensive item. Really, I should be writing to them - if I get a chance I will.

Just a couple of snaps, not sure but it looks like they may pull down the Queens Garage on Westgate St. Lots of building work going on there, the roofs been pulled down. Despite the poor ground floor façade, the top half looks nice in the sun with its streamlined arts deco freeze. Found myself there the other morning returning from the dentists so snapped a couple just for memories sake.

Wide View of the Queen's Royal Garage, Westgate Street, Cardiff

Close Up view of the Queen's Royal Garage's freeze, Westgate Street, Cardiff

No doubt another of Cardiff's buildings with a little bit of character will be replaced with another faceless non-event.

Posted by Dio Bach at 23:25

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...: lol ebuyer is leik teh n00b lol; 7:36 PM