Always request transport packaging!

[RangerPete]

Just a reminder to everyone, always request your tins of pellets to be packaged correctly for shipping!
I recently ordered 5 tins of pellets from a local gun shop. They packaged them in a plastic courier bag and sent them off!!!

When I recieved them all 5 tins had been bashed and damaged, and of course the pellets inside were also damaged.
As an established gun shop they really should know better.
A cardboard box and bubble wrap is what they should have used.
I’ve learnt my lesson, it dosent matter who you are dealing with, expect them to be idiots annd always request proper packaging for your pellets!!!

PS: this is not intended to be a name and shame post, just a reminder to pellet buyers everywhere.

 

[FelixS]

Been there, done that. I would hope that making such a request would make a difference, but I am not too sure whether asking for special packaging would simply fall on deaf ears, depending on the person you speak to. As you stated, expectations are that businesses that sell pellets know how to package them. However, I too had a shipment of pellets come in a box with no more than a couple of bunched up pieces of wrapping paper for "protection". It was a joke, and the joke was on me. Fortunately after inspection there were not too many damaged pellets although quite a few of the tins were damaged.

Having said all that, all shipments I have received from Pyramid Air are packaged perfect. All purchases from sellers here have also been perfect.

It would be interesting to hear responses from pellet retailers when such a request is made.

 

[PumaCarl]

If you don't name them and shame them, VERY much in the public view, then it will almost always continue if it is a business with an actual shipping department, and the owner isn't present to moniter it. Just about everybody on this forum that has bought pellets from Amazon or MidwaywayUSA has complained to them, and here, openly, and they still haven't fixed the problem. A small local shop is actually better served, in the long run, if you call them out so that they fix the problem. I can actually understand Amazon not getting it right, but wth is MidwayUSA's excuse?