Originally Posted by
oldsewnsew
A work to the wise, make sure to communicate about shipping and insurance ahead of time. I was in too big of a hurry.
Insurance wouldn't have helped. One look at how it was packaged and any claim would be denied. It doesn't matter what shipping agent you use, all of them have rules and fine print for specific regs. on how to package and what materials to use.
The one time I received a machine worse off than this via an ebay sale, ebay sent me a return shipping tag and covered the cost. However, I'm not sure they're still doing this. The machine I received was damaged in shipping of course, but was sold as works great and the listing photos didn't show the bare wiring(I'm certain it would have caused a fire or zapped me) and the fact that the machine was almost hollow on the inside! Someone had ripped out a bunch of parts from the inside(also not photographed). So much for works great! The seller told me it had worked great when it left her house and it was buyers like me that made her not want to sell anymore and I was scamming the system to get a free machine. LOL. She got her "works great" machine, back!!!