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Sorry for your aggravation GARmoonY. At least you can "mark" them off your list of places to get stuff. Of course the EGG sells the discs at times too... NOT JVC that I know of but they do Ritek and Verbies. Sometimes Verbies can be had for about $20 delivered.

Goooood Luck or maybe Better luck next time with whomever you choose to buy from.

 

The JVC Tys that I received from SMS were wrapped in a layer of bubble wrap and placed in a box full of styrofoam 'peanuts'

My SMS experience has been that the larger the order, the better the packaging.

Only one complaint . . the JVC discs could use a couple of more spacers in the cakebox . . the discs are kind of loose

 

garmoon that happen to me 1 time w/them. Just call them when you do say that next time make sure they package them better blah blah blah, that customers leave because of this. I know you're PO. I wouldn't rule them out completely though. They do respond to complaints and RMA really well.

Otn, I heard through the grapevine that UPS has a 6ft. drop from the docking station to truck or w/e. I don't pay mind to that. More important things iynwim. Unfortunately most free shippimg w/these guys are UPS, and a alternative will prolly cost.

The days of quality work and job appreciation are long gone. especially now w/this crisis.

 

The 6 ft. drop is true, I know my daughter worked there for six months.

 

Tell them here what you think

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1639-p3-s1-d1.html

they have poor response and lots of excuses, i'll never go there again

MPE

 

So far during the last 5 years I have been ordering from them I have never encountered a problem, and if I ever do they will know it.

 

Fred thnx for confirming this. I got wind of it a couple of weeks ago when trying to help someone who thought his HDD was damaged and went on this notion by another member. While I didn't argue about the 6ft. drop being true, I seriously doubted he had HDD damage. I was right. He RMA'D it and still had same issue. Lol... After some troubleshooting we figured out the issue.

 

garmoon,
I don't know what the 50 packs are like, but the cake box TY uses for the 100s, flat sucks. Worst I've ever seen! The cover is hard to get off, and even harder to put on! The 100s come shipped without a foam spacer at the top as well, so you can pretty well throw out the top couple of DVDs. Newegg didn't help a lot by throwing it in a boxfull of peanuts and setting a piece of bubble wrap on top of it. This is what happens when you hire minimum wage workers, to cut costs!

Russ

 

My 500 came in 10 cake boxes of 50

and as I previously posted, the discs were loose in the cake boxes and could use a couple of more spacers . . not SMS's fault . . typical of Taiyo Yuden

 

I've experienced similar issues with the cake packages. Loose discs. Fortunately, nothing has happened to the discs yet, because of that. Hope it never does...

 

catfreak,
The funny thing is they specify "No Wafer". I wonder why, as common sense would dictate otherwise!

Russ

 

Oman7,
The cake box I got has internal tabs to lock the cover on. The big problem is, there is no real stop on the locks. The cover can be removed clockwise as well as counter clockwise, with just a detent in the middle. It's an incredibly stupid design because you can't see where the slot is for the notches, to put the cover back on! I just switched mine to a Verb cake box. Problem solved!

Russ

 

maybe a good reason to buy them in the tapewrap

 

I prefer buying my TY's from Meritline & SMS in tape wrap instead of on spindles as I keep a few spindles handy to put the discs on after I take the tape wrap off. The last 600 pack I got from Meritline of 8x TY white inkjt printables had each 100 pack in it's own compartment with bobble wrap sitting on top of the packs. Nothing on the bottom except the box & no damage to any of the discs but then I bought that 600 pack about 4 months ago & have another one coming in a few days via UPS from Meritline. Not low on discs though as there is one hundred pack still in it's tape wrap ready to go plus I've got about 40 something 8x TY's on a spindle. A few days ago I bought four 50 packs of Phillips (CMAG) 16x white inkjet printables off the damaged & returned aisle at my local Microcenter for $9.99 each when they usually run $13.99 so other than light damage to the outer cakeboxes nothing was wrong with the discs. Oh & I bought another 2TB Western Digital external USB drive while I was there too. Brand new & thankfully on sale!!

 

I've solved my problem. I'll be buying my media from B&M stores as long as they keep putting Verbs on sale. They are are as god as anything around that I've been using. If the JVCs that weren't damaged are as good I'll look for them also. At least I will get undamaged media that way. And -R and +R are same price.

 

I never bought tape wrapped media before because of the storage issue if no spindles or w/e. So they come tightly wrapped and much in good shape as caked media? They are less expensive a lot I've seen.

 

I've never had a tape wrapped 100 pack of CD's or DVD's arrive damaged plus I keep some empty spindles around to hold the discs before they are burned.

 

dr_ml422- I bought About 600 taiyo 8x Dvd-R Value-line thermal Printables O' maybe a couple of years ago From SMS I think ? and They were packed well and arrived promptly & undamaged by transit/shipping or poor packing !- The only Issues I had if you can call them that was as you said " how to store them ? Luckily I'm a packrat so I simply Reused my spindles from my horde of branded disc {sony's Verbatim ect...} Who's disc I had already burned So they were now available for reuse Works good ! of course If you don't have any empty spindles then You can't use what you don't have naturally . But you could ask your Buds to save you theirs or Just order some with your disc but then you might end up spending enough to buy the premium with the media already in spindles ? I had'nt checked on that pricewise lately Though ! The only other Caveat I would say Is If you Do Buy the Tape wrapped disc Try not to open them Till you have a storage solution planned or Disc all over and you would'nt want them to get scratched up right ? You could just go the Wallet Binder Route or Put them in Individaul DVD cases if you have them and the time to spare? - Also when you open up your Tape wrapped disc sometimes they stick together No residue on the writing/Burning surface of the disc just around the rim/edge of the dissc { the part the wrap actually touchs ! They seperate easily and in 600 Disc I had no problems caused ny that ,But I figured that you'd wanna know - Good luck Buddy & cheers !!!!

 

@GARmoonY.. nothing wrong with that.. as they are just as cheap at times and like you said.... "At least I will get undamaged media that way".

@dr_ml.. Never had an issue with the "tape" wrapped DVD's. Like all have suggested, just use some spindles if you have them laying around. I'm like Sasquatch... me hords them babies. LOL.

@bratcher.. You got some pretty good deals there.. which CMC MAG discs did you get?? I've used a few hundred of the CMC MAG AM3 discs and they really are nice.

@Sasquatch (BT69).. Ya Rat Packing Hairy Bugger you!! LOL. I think that a few of us do the same thing when it comes to "smart" savings... lol. Me bride doesn't understand it until I pull one of those 100 disc spindles off the shelve and slide that spindle rod nicely up the middle of the pack... hehehe. She likes it!! :O Nice storage savings and saves the mess of picking up a load of discs...

I used AllMediaOutlet.com until about a year ago.. for some reason they went belly up... got all my media there TY's and DVD minis.. but alas I had to make the switch to SMS and Meritline for online purchases... for B&M purchases it seems that OM is the place to go most of the time. Staples has some good deals too.

 

BRATCHERT- Good To go on the hard drive I see ? I hear ya's I have a 400GB usb { Home-grown }, 2 500GB WD's and 2 1Tb WD's Plus a 1Tb CavalRy usb HDD !!!! - Can't be to Rich, Too thin orHave enough Hard Drive Space Right ? - Now If I could Only Find The 2 1Tb WD DrIves ? I Know I have them & they are In the house somewhere But Where is the question ?Oh well I'll Find 'em eventually I suppose ? Maybe I'll Break tradition This year and Buy a Couple 2Tb internals For My dell Inspiron 530 Put My lity's & card reader In it and be a Grownup ????? Decisions ,decisions ?????????????