Enough Packaging Already, Amazon
June 26, 2008 by Allison Boyer
Filed under Business
Last week, I ordered a video game guitar from Amazon. Not a dealer THROUGH Amazon…from Amazon themselves. Today, it was waiting for me when I woke up. When I saw the box, I thought “woah, it must be bigger that I thought.”
No…Amazon just used way too much packaging. I took a picture so you could see what I mean:
I actually had to stand up on my couch to get it all in the picture. You can see – my Wireless Wii Guitar, the packaging, the huge box. Incidentally, my guitar was on the VERY bottom, against the cardboard, so it wasn’t even really protected by the brown paper.
Although I’m disappointed by this gross use of packaging when a smaller box would have been better, I do have to say that at least they’re using paper, which can be recycled, instead of packaging peanuts. I haven’t ordered anything from Amazon in a long time, so I’m not sure when they made the switch, but I applaud that effort at least.
I’m wondering if this was an isolated incident because the guitar is a funny shape. Have you recently ordered anything directly from Amazon? If so, how was the packaging?
Picture copyright Allison Boyer.
