That stuff is worth innumerable times what it weighs if you work in shipping. One job where we sold a lot stuff on eBay, we saved every single one of those airpak’s in every crevice we could conceivably hide them in the building. The guy we shipped a late 60’s Marshall Plexi head to appreciated the amount of over-packing we did, and it couldn’t have happened without those little gifts from God.
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Every time I’ve had something damaged in shipping it was due to those things being popped in transit.
With bubble wrap if a couple bubbles pop it’s no big deal. With those if one pops it allows a lot of movement and ultimately damage to what it was protecting.
They’re fine for some things, but not most things.
Posts: 1514 | Location: Ypsilanti, MI | Registered: August 03, 2006
Originally posted by ubelongoutside: I think these things are garbage.
Every time I’ve had something damaged in shipping it was due to those things being popped in transit.
With bubble wrap if a couple bubbles pop it’s no big deal. With those if one pops it allows a lot of movement and ultimately damage to what it was protecting.
They’re fine for some things, but not most things.
That’s more in how they’re used than that they’re used. It’s another tool in the box and a piss-poor packaging job can be done with tons of bubble wrap just as well as anything else.
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Hah! Anyone that wastes their money on these is a chump. The air is free so I just put whatever I’m shipping in the box, dump in some extra air, and send it.
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Originally posted by ubelongoutside: I think these things are garbage.
Every time I’ve had something damaged in shipping it was due to those things being popped in transit.
With bubble wrap if a couple bubbles pop it’s no big deal. With those if one pops it allows a lot of movement and ultimately damage to what it was protecting.
They’re fine for some things, but not most things.
I agree. I receive a lot of packages in my business, and these things are crap for packing material. I save crumpled paper and peanuts, but these things I immediately destroy with scissors or razor knife, so they don’t take up as much space in my trash.
Storing these is close to insane. A major reason companies use them, other than being cheap, is that they don’t have to store volumes of packing material. They fill these with air as needed. I would never store this crap.
A company I used to work for used thousands of those a day in the shipping department. The plastic would arrive on giant spools. There were numerous machines that would inflate a portion of the sleeve and then a heating element would seal them off one at a time. It was almost hypnotic to watch.
Posts: 1306 | Location: Pennsylvania | Registered: August 24, 2005
Originally posted by cas: ...the guy who said "I'm gonna put air in a bag and sell it to people!"
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Balls and brains.
Reminds me of my buddy in Alaska who built iceroads. “I dump water on the ground in the arctic circle in January and everyone in Houston or moves up from Houston thinks I’m genius because I can build miles of road a day.”
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Posts: 23249 | Location: Northern Suburbs of Houston | Registered: November 14, 2005
What about the first dude who decided to fill a bottle with tap water and sell it for a couple of bucks? Now THAT was a genius move, right up there with pet rocks. The air filled bag joins the ranks.
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Posts: 29408 | Location: In the red hinterlands of Deep Blue VA | Registered: June 29, 2001
Just had an item badly damaged , shipped from a UPS Store in FL here to MT. Thankfully the seller wrapped the item nicely in bubblewrap and cellophane. As all the UPS Store idiots did was drop it into a box that was way too big, then stuff it with those air bags.
Maybe 10% of the bags arrived INflated, the rest were destroyed. So the item bounced around in the big box as it came cross country.
The seller pursued the clam and I was nicely remunerated. He told me the UPS claims division told him that certain States no longer allow Styrofoam peanuts as packing material. Due to it being a landfill issue !?!?
So we are probably stuck with the worthless airbags.
