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    Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    And I can probably say that about Mattel and Microsoft too.
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    This sounds good to me but I sure hope they get more companies onboard. I don't really buy too many items from Fisher Price any more...
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    I'll be happy to buy from amazon again if they'd stop with the amazon tax that every other retailer in their exact position is not honoring. NewEgg doesn't have it anymore, now it's Amazon's turn.

    Oh and, I get small things from Amazon in small packages, nothing too ridiculous.

    You should check out ThermoFisher's packaging. Big boxes that can fit 25 of the items they're shipping one of.
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    Heh. So is Microsoft re-packaging copies of Vista and Office 2007 in something other than those infernal plastic guess-how-this-thing-opens-if-you-can cases?
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    11/03/08

    @SuppleMonkey: I swear that those cases are just a terrible design.
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    This is great news. Now Amazon and every other mail-order retailer needs to stop shipping flash drives and single CDs in ginormous cardboard boxes. Padded envelopes are just fine for small items.
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    11/03/08

    @AdmNaismith: true that. Amazon has some seriously wasteful packaging. And on top of that, they really don't encourage people to reduce that packaging by shipping everything at the same time in the same box. I understand that they have different fulfillment centers and sometimes that's just not possible, but there really should be some kind of incentive or at least encouragement to consolidate orders to reduce waste packaging and minimize fuel used in delivery.
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    Hate to throw that plug out there, but this is partly the reason why I adore Apple's packaging.
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    11/03/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Because it's overpriced, and underperformed more than other forms of packaging?
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    11/03/08

    @deadhouseplantz: By underperforming, you mean easier to open and is not an obnoxiously hard-to-open dual-layered plastic chrysalis that's just a bitch to break through?
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    11/03/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: You'll have to explain to me why that's a valid comparison.


    What kind of memory cards has apple started selling? Have other manufactures been shipping computers in plastic bubbles? The only thing I can think of they even sell that other manufactures would put in that kind of packaging would be the shuffle and if I'm not mistaken the current line of shuffles ship in that exact packaging.

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    11/03/08

    @tande04: Specifics are irrelevant. What matters is the principle of the design. None of the packages they offer are hard to open.
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    11/03/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Except for the Front Row remote... =|


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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    For those of us that like to keep our gadgets mummified for a thousand years before breaking the packaging to get that 2008 new-gadget smell permeating the nuclear wasteland that is our home, this is truly terrible news.
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Amazon Promises Frustration-Free Packaging: Dentists, Scissor-Makers Dismayed
    Frustration-Free packaging? Oh god, YES!

    I cannot describe how much I hate those stupid-ass packages for much of the electronic stuff I buy.

    "What? Anyone might want to open this in the future? Noooooooo...!"
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    11/03/08

    @Eruanno: I used to hate opening ps2 games, but they changed the plastic on ps3 games and its a snap to rip off now.


    The worst place for frustration packaging is when you buy gadgets from Sam's club. They somehow decided it would be funny to torment us by wrapping all the packages in the hard plastic that could stand up to rifle fire.

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    11/03/08

    @geiko: Agreed. Its a hermetically sealed plastic vault. Acetylene torch not absolutely necessary, but if you want to get at it in under an hour, probably a good idea...
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