{"id":13810,"date":"2014-10-04T06:19:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T11:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13810"},"modified":"2014-10-04T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T11:19:52","slug":"the-same-guy-packed-my-trivia-whiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/04\/the-same-guy-packed-my-trivia-whiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Same Guy Packed My Trivia Whiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Baruth has a photo of a guitar he bought on eBay<\/a> in its shipping container, which is a box with some peanuts that could not accommodate the guitar properly.<\/p>\n

About fifteen years ago, I was embarking on my video game collecting bit (and by video games, I mean the full size arcade games, not just consoles and electronic games). I got my first two from eBay: A Thunderblade (which featured a suicide battery that has committed seppuku in the intervening fifteen years) and a bartop Trivia Whiz IV.<\/p>\n

The Thunderblade came crated and strapped down, shipped via a freight service that required me to get a friend with a pickup truck and a strong back to pick it up at the airport. It was a professional job.<\/p>\n

The Trivia Whiz, on the other hand….<\/p>\n

It was shipped UPS heavyweight. In a cardboard box. With some bubblewrap pressed against the glass and wrapped with pallet wrap and a half box full of peanuts that had settled, of course.<\/p>\n

It arrived with the whole heavy wood case akilter, especially the glass and framed front with the controls and glass that covered the monitor. I complained to the seller, who suggested that I take it up with UPS. I didn’t bother because the fault lie not in the shipping but the packing.<\/p>\n

I did my best to straighten the case out, but it’s still a little wonky. <\/p>\n

And it’s still cluttering one of my desks in my office. I should try it out one of these days to see if it still works.<\/p>\n

Those were the only two games I bought off of eBay; the others I got at in person auctions. Video games are one of those things I’m wary of ordering online.<\/p>\n

(Not that I’m planning to do that any time soon, honey. Although our youngest son has informed me there’s a spot of room in the office in front of the filing cabinet. I don’t need to open those drawers as much as I need another video game in my office.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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