Rough sees for Channel Islands...

So my Amazon order I just made will be delayed I suppose.

But hopefully not as bad as the motherboard I ordered that took weeks to arive, then materialised banging around in a flimsy box outer box. Upon opening the MB box, no socket cover, bent socket pins, dust on the board so not new and been in somebodies system... and no manuals or cables or accessories.

Im not kidding. An expensive board too. You can imagine my anger.

18 hours ago, martin-w said:

Rough sees for Channel Islands...

Sometimes, spell chick is not your fiend. 😉 🤣

18 hours ago, martin-w said:

But hopefully not as bad as the motherboard I ordered that took weeks to arive, then materialised banging around in a flimsy box outer box. Upon opening the MB box, no socket cover, bent socket pins, dust on the board so not new and been in somebodies system... and no manuals or cables or accessories.

Im not kidding. An expensive board too. You can imagine my anger.

Yep, I'd be angry too!  That was obviously not a new motherboard.

19 hours ago, martin-w said:

Rough sees for Channel Islands...

So my Amazon order I just made will be delayed I suppose.

But hopefully not as bad as the motherboard I ordered that took weeks to arive, then materialised banging around in a flimsy box outer box. Upon opening the MB box, no socket cover, bent socket pins, dust on the board so not new and been in somebodies system... and no manuals or cables or accessories.

Im not kidding. An expensive board too. You can imagine my anger.

My gawd Martin, you couldn’t make up this kind of nonsense if you tried 😡

43 minutes ago, stans said:

Yep, I'd be angry too!  That was obviously not a new motherboard.

 

6 minutes ago, Rocky_53 said:

My gawd Martin, you couldn’t make up this kind of nonsense if you tried 😡

 

Deliveries are usually slow here even Prime, relying on boats and the weather of course. This was bonkers though, as you say, clearly a board somebody had messed with  bent the pins and then rubbed the seal back down (it was wrinkled) and sent it back. What annoys me is that before it was sent to me as a new product they should have had a closer look at the seal on the box. Anyway, I'm still waiting for the refund, I'll let you know how I get on.

Compare that to a recent order from Scan... arrived pretty fast, very well packaged with lots of bubble wrap and frequent emails letting me know the status. The only minor issue there is that because we have lower VAT than the UK, Scan don't pay it at all. So the parcels get held up a day or two by customs till we pay the VAT.

 

53 minutes ago, stans said:

Sometimes, spell chick is not your fiend. 😉 🤣

 

Too true, my friend. It's always catching me out and I cant be bothered to check before I post. 

20 hours ago, martin-w said:

Rough sees for Channel Islands

On 1/27/2026 at 2:32 PM, Mike A said:

 

 

Mest play more attention and net bee so lazy and cick posts fur spell check ceck ups. 

Ms. Islands’ first name is pronounced shah-NELL.  Her family is well known in our 50th state.  Surely you must of heard of them?  The Islands of Hawaii?  This is their family crest: