Stihl Fuel Can from ValleyFirewood

[bryanr2]

I'm not sure why you can't call me with concerns before crap talking on here, almost like you just wanted to find reason to bad talk some one. That speaks volumes for your character.

I don't know what disintegrated cardboard means but I used a good box and taped the hell out of it. If it came apart the Usps really beat it around. Put some pictures up.

I didn't pack it, but I had left clear instructions on that. We have a friend who foster child's two special needs native Alaskans and they help out at the shop. - gives them a sense of purpose and they do great work too. When I say special needs I mean a few years behind for their age, so high functioning.

They help me out stacking wood, cleaning the shop, etc, great workers!

Perhaps it didn't get packed quite right. They were to wrap it in bubble wrap and fill the rest of the box with newspaper. I know the bubblewrap roll was smaller and a pile of newspaper was gone.
What problem is with using newspaper? It's cheap, light, and works well.

Not to mention to make no mention of the extra gifts I included. I think on that package there were some pens, cups, maybe a hat or two? Your welcome I guess? Every package I've sent out has had something extra. A few got t shirts even.

As far as their being gas in the box, it must have leaked from another package while being shipped. There hasn't been gas in that can for easily 10 years and the cap was on it.

again, post photos so I can see.

I don't remember deleting the thread, I've had some threads just vanish, had a computer virus on my old computer (still getting fixed) so maybe it had something to do with that, I'm not sure, I have no idea how this all works. That or maybe I deleted it because it was sold, I don't remember.

So "You" used a good box or the "Special Needs Children" did? You said "I used a good box and taped the hell out of it" then turn right around and say you didnt pack it.

There was no bubble wrap in the box at all. No newspaper either, but there was some torn pages from a phone book. As far as the "gifts", I didnt ask for a dirty plastic cup and a ball cap with grease stains on it. I assumed that was some of your packing/filler material. The pictures show that the box was not packed correctly. A box that has the correct packing doesnt concave like this box did. The only reason a box would "crush" is bc there was space between the item and the box. And the box does reak of fuel. Any fuel can that has ever had fuel in it, will always smell like it has had fuel in it.... especially one that has been sealed up for years.

The item itself was not damaged, but there was no effort to protect it from being damaged.

 

[jughead500]

Yes but you dont donate to charity

Or employ special native utahian's

 

[bryanr2]

what if it had been a $1000 saw?

Anything that has had fuel in it, should be wrapped and sealed in a bag. Had they decided to pull the item from the truck bc of the odor, I dont get the "can" but you walk away with my money.

 

[Stihl Livin]

I see the problem. You did not refrigerate upon arrival did you.

 

[thomas1]

Having seen the pictures, I am going to side with Valley Firewood on this one.

The box clearly says to refrigerate upon arrival and I see no mention of where the OP did so.

Case closed.

 

[bryanr2]

I see the problem. You did not refrigerate upon arrival did you.

Hell no, Id never get the "fumes'' out of the refrigerator liner.

 

[jughead500]

So "You" used a good box or the "Special Needs Children" did? You said "I used a good box and taped the hell out of it" then turn right around and say you didnt pack it.

There was no bubble wrap in the box at all. No newspaper either, but there was some torn pages from a phone book. As far as the "gifts", I didnt ask for a dirty plastic cup and a ball cap with grease stains on it. I assumed that was some of your packing/filler material. The pictures show that the box was not packed correctly. A box that has the correct packing doesnt concave like this box did. The only reason a box would "crush" is bc there was space between the item and the box. And the box does reak of fuel. Any fuel can that has ever had fuel in it, will always smell like it has had fuel in it.... especially one that has been sealed up for years.

The item itself was not damaged, but there was no effort to protect it from being damaged.



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That looks like a packing job i would do after a week long drunk and i lost my hat and my coffee cups.

 

[thomas1]

Case re-opened:

Where exactly is all the tape/bubble wrap/ newspaper that VF guaranteed was used in the packaging process?

Are there two poor, mentally challenged children running loose through the Alaskan wilderness, wearing nothing but tape and bubble wrap?

 

[stihl sawing]

LOL, But you gots a nice ball cap.

 

[nmurph]

How much for the coffee cup?

 

[bryanr2]

A ~30 year old gas tank not used in a long time. It sat with the open spigot on in the shop for many years. I pulled the spigot off, and put the cap on. I remember it not smelling because I looked in the tank with a borescope when I listed it to make sure it wasn't rusted out.
There was no way possible for gas to get on the box from that can. I can only guess that another package while under the USPS care leaked on it.

When I ship saws I drain all the fluids and wrap them up in a trash bag just because it might leak a little bit still. The can had no chance of that.

In any case I'm not sure how the boxed being smashed is be any means something I could have done or prevented? It was packed tight in the box, I shook it to make sure. Also it was pretty much wrapped fully in tape.. I told the guys to tape the shizz out of it... they took it a bit far haha!

lets take this a bit further, you said on saws you drain the fluids and wrap them in a trash bag, but you see no need to wrap a gas can that stored fuel in a bag? and the part in "bold" the pics say otherwise.

now a ex mod pm'd me a few days ago after reading a post of mine where I stated that the thread had disappeared. He said that the mods should be able to make it "un-disappear" if the need arises. For some reason, I seem to recall from the orig listing that the seller "confirmed'' that the upper tank did not leak fuel. However, you have posted, not in the one I am quoting, but in this thread that it hasnt had fuel in it in 10 years..... so how can you state that the upper tank doesnt leak fuel?

 

[jughead500]

How much for the coffee cup?

How much for the ball cap? lost my last one in a box.

 

[redoakneck]

 

[pantelis]

How much for the coffee cup?

3000 plus the packaging.

 

[bryanr2]

LOL, But you gots a nice ball cap.

yeah buddy, im gonna run that greasy cap thru my wife's washing machine.... not.

 

[bryanr2]

How much for the coffee cup?

I dont know, at the moment I cant confirm it holds coffee and doesnt leak.

 

[jughead500]

Thats what the dish washers for.Grease!

 

[pantelis]

I dont know, at the moment I cant confirm it holds coffee and doesnt leak.

pressure-vacuum test

 

[bryanr2]

It's not about the money. Seventy dollars doesnt mean anything to me when I spent $11,000 on saws last year. But what does matter, is that my friends here need to be aware when there is a seller to beware of. What if it was several hundred dollars or $1k plus. There has to be an accounting when your selling here.

There was a gentleman that pm'd me and disclosed that they finally did receive the saw you sent them, but it wasnt the "model" saw you said it was in the listing. Also, you didnt disclose that the saw had a homemade "wire" choke lever to the buyer. That is something he has discovered since it arrived, and he hasnt had time to look deeper into the condition of the saw since.

 

[bryanr2]

Thats what the dish washers for.Grease!

maybe so.... but I wouldnt call a dirty cup a "gift"