milliAmp

I just had to write about this because it frustrates me a lot every time I run into this. It is these new-fangled heat-sealed packages a lot of electronic gadgets are coming in now. You can’t get them open with practically destroying the entire packaging. I don’t want to go and find a pair of scissors or a knife to get into my new gadgets. I also don’t want to slip with said cutting device and cut a cable or the manual. Some headphones I bought a few months ago had this heat-sealed packages and the edges were dangerously close to where the cable ran inside the packet.

I am a box-hoarder. I keep boxes for my gadgets for at least a year after I buy them, in case it breaks in the first couple of weeks, in case I want to sell it; I can sell it in the original packaging and if it wasn’t bought locally, some retailers request that you send it back in the original packaging. So, I keep boxes. It frustrates me that the packaging for these devices has to be destroyed to get into the thing.

It means that if it doesn’t work for the purpose I need it to and want to return it to the shop two days later, they can’t put it back on the shelf for full price because the whole thing it ripped apart and it means I can’t offer it to someone to buy later in the original packaging (well I guess I could but with it being in pieces, it distracts from the point of doing that).

Does anyone else have a problem with this nasty packaging or is it just me?