This is definitely the #1 problem with the CRT market.. too many CRTs are dying due to poor shipping!!! Want to keep CRT prices low, stop killing them off in shipping, that’s only going to drive up prices! Although maybe that’s what the e-recyclers want :(
I just used Uship for the first time. Booked last night, received the monitor today safely delivered. It was $200 with the $50 insurance, so maybe next time I'll consider skipping the insurance. It was literally a perfect delivery.
Glad to see you back to your ways of having fun and educating us as always with classic Retro Tech Steve. You're looking good for sure bro. 8^) Anthony...
I seriously think some people don't care and just want to get rid of their CRT's. They see them as old junk and don't have an electronics recycler nearby. So they just ship it half assed and hope for the best. Then when it arrives broken they give a refund and say "Oh well, at least it's out of my house now". Sad but I think that's the mentality of some people.
LOL, funny that you posted this. I saw a listing for one of those Disney crt TV's the Lightning McQueen one, for a good price but was on the fence of buying it... Because shipping is gonna be a nightmare.
we need you here in germany. we are all looking for someone who can fix and adjust our old crts. Everyone here says it's not a lucrative bug compared to the new HD devices.
The only solution to stop crt from getting broken in the mail is big youtubers need to start telling everyone to stop shipping them! Too many crts that worked fine are now broken for ever because you got a good deal on them!
There's a reason electronics used to be a lot higher than you would think. Weight and or size. You should see the packaging to a 1991-92 Pioneer Laserdisc player. No less than 3" of heavy polyethylene foam all the way around the product. The box itself is triple wall 1/2" thick
I guess I've been pretty lucky.. My experience is the lighter and smaller, the better though. Out of 8 crt video monitors I've had only 1 negative one, which is sad because it's my best monitor. It was packaged with cut up foam packed so tight that it cracked the front bezel under pressure of my JVC. Unfortunate lol >:( However the last couple of shipments have been amazing, wrapped in a ton of bubble wrap with packing peanuts and a big box that could fit 8 of the video monitor in it if packed end to end. Showed up as it was in pictures and I was not dissatisfied. Even used the packing peanuts to stuff some beanbag chairs!
I totally agree that this is a huge issue. I would say that it's about 70/30 split on damaged goods in a typical ground shipping scenario. Seventy percent the shipper's fault and thirty percent the logistics company's fault. Logistics companies use a fair bit of automation in their setups to reduce handling but, those are designed in a way to prevent damage. What's the point of reducing handling if it just breaks everything? Reception and Final mile is the biggest points of damage. Those are the points at which People actually have to handle your goods. These are people who are put under extremely strict time limits for success which drives handling care to go out the window. There is also a lot of similarity in how each operations works. Despite outward appearance the US Postal service utilizes small parcel carriers and larger logistics company's networks to move mail. So it's generally never a matter of company X is better than company Y, your experience varies no matter who you use. Shippers/packers are the worst offenders. It's not just about using a multi-wall box to pack a heavy object like a CRT, it's about using the right packaging period! Not to Go all Bob Lag testing levels but, each fiberboard container has a circular stamp on the outside. I'd say a majority of folks ignore or have no idea what that actually is. It's a container specification, it tells you how much weight you can put in a box and the bursting test from a certain distance of meters dropped. If your max weight is 25lbs and you exceed that weight with a 40lbs item and you poorly pack that container; if it goes through a rough journey, likely your contents are going to get damaged. If you adequately pack that container with 40lbs of goods it's less likely to get damaged but the box states it's not designed to provide adequate protection to the contents. Non-regulatory stickers on a box, MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. If you slap a fragile sticker on it, you've just wasted a few cents on a sticker. Packing materiel is also a huge foul. Newspaper, junk mail, and old packing paper may do well for keeping light items restricted from movement in a container but don't expect it to provide any impact resistance. The goal when packing is to restrict the movement of the contents separate from the movement of the container, not just add a bunch of cushioning to it. Cushioning still allows independent movement from the container, which breaks things. A small amount of cushioning to add some impact resistance is fine but, no more that. The only above and beyond would be to add some puncture protection for the contents in the event something punctured the outer container wall. There was a reason they hired an engineer when CRT's were brand new to design a box which could transport them safely. it's nice you've found a courier that does well for you.
Packing a small to medium sized CRT is a lot easier than packing a Plasma or a modern thin OLED display which are a lot more fragile. Not sure why people can't pack these properly, you can always charge extra for shipping to pay for packing material and use pallet delivery. Shipping a TV is like trying to ship preassembled furniture.
Good thing I’m taking some precautions with a BVM I’m looking into. I’m thinking about picking it up locally even if it’s more than an hour away, because of an extra $500 for ground shipping from some private company & the inevitable damage ground shipping causes. Once I have enough to pay for it(& I can pay for the gas needed to make the trip of course), I’ll definitely avoid ground shipping. Wish me luck with carrying a 112lb monitor lol.
@@MrFAlLED A 12 hour long trip?? Man and I thought I was at the limit, here you are who did 12 times what I plan to do lol. For carrying such a heavy monitor, would you have any recommendations about how I should make sure it doesn’t get damaged when I’m driving?
This happened to me as well. Its doubly sad because not only do you not get your tv in working condition, but the world loses another one of the last remaining crt monitors
I guess I should consider myself lucky, my 9" Zenith Cube tv was shipped inside a cardboard sewing machine box with crumpled newspaper as packing material. Arrived working and not damaged at all, I didn't think about what would happen if they had played hackey-sack with it.
I got lucky on my shipping the guy used pool noodles and taped it all around the tv it made it pretty much intact it had a slight stress crack on the case but luckily nothing major. I never thought about the hurdles of shipping a tv until then
I just bought that same 13 inch PVM that you showed in this video, got very lucky that it didn't get destroyed in shipping. Was shipped in someones flimsy old Xmas decoration box with some very loose fitting styrofoam passing the box.
Crt filters have improved way to much, looking at my arcade cabinet and my tablet side by side i see almost the same ? and my tablet has even more vibrant colors.
I agree, I do use ShaderGlass sometimes and it can simulate a lot of different CRT's. I do have real CRT's, both A/V ones and PC-VGA ones. Shaderglass looks very convincing and almost indistinguishable from a real CRT, let it be an old consumer TV set or a high res PC desktop CRT. This simple software can do it all. My favourite filter is crt-guest-drvenom
@@hyperturbotechnomike I use the consumer crt shader with a bit tweaked parameters, i zeroed all curves ,and putted dark scanlines at 1, bright scanlines at 1,05 ,bright boost dark pixels 2.00 , for my tablet . For huge lcds you may find better crt shaders . My tablet is on par per pixel(i literally count them on sprites) with bright boost or even better without bb then my crt arcade cabinet.
Buy the monitors from garage sales, thrift stores, flea markets, antique stores, estate sales, Facebook Marketplace and retro game stores. Also get them from the side of the roads and from friends. Avoid ordering them online because it’s a risk.
I think there is 2 most likely issues, scarcity and artificial scarcity, things that aren't make anymore get rare by the day by degradation or junking possible parts, destroying it by bad shipping or bad maintence is other of these examples. another is artificial scarcity, low volume of sales at a high profit, people think that it's more rare than the reality and end up paying a high price on stuff. There is no solution, in fact, only paliative measures. Nowdays we are spoiled kids, we have software and hardware emulation and also multicarts, we have multiple display possibilities with a lot of different adapters. Make a concious decision based on your reality, maybe it's not the best, but maybe it's the best for your financial situation.
Use UShip bite the bullet and pay the piper. Had to pay near what I paid for a couple I have and it was worth it in receiving clean functional items. Anything worth preserving is worth spending a little more coin on making sure it arrives alive.
I recently got a steal on a sony pvm 14m2u for $220 after tax and shipping and it made from Florida to Washington just with UPS and it arrived in perfect condition! It was packed very well (double boxed with lots of paper padding between the two layers), but I was completely shocked! The seller shipped it before I could even reach out to ask any questions about how they were going to ship it and I just had to cross my fingers.
Honestly, it should be possible to sue the seller for the price of the CRT plus shipping over this. If it already is, then people who get these broken on arrival should start suing the sellers left, right, and center.
in my country every heavier electronics always packaged with wood pallets in order to ship, the shipping company took care of the process and its cheap too, why is this not a thing in US its just common sense 🤨 especially with those pricey pvms
Hello, I need some help. I have a sony trinitron model kv-32fs100. While watching a movie I noticed that anytime the screen goes dark, there's a very small area in the corner (less than an inch) of light that stays behind. It slowly dissipates but keeps showing back up after bright scenes. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and if there's any information that I might have left out or didn't explained enough in detail, let me know. Thanks a lot
Good this Uship exists then, because the old shipping brokers were extremely sketchy. My co-worker moved in 2021 and the company that the brokerage used didnt communicate, just showed up the day of the move and then kept my friends stuff until he agreed to pay them a ton of money, like a few thousand. It was literal robbery and he had nothing in his house in Florida for a month +, nearly led to his seperation. Still dont know if he was able to find a real company to sue, since they had a fake street address.
i have the same problem my my sewing machine collecting obsession. people think that just because its iron its strong. no, its cast iron and its incredibly brittle when dropped. Ive lost 3 of 5 machines Ive purchased because of poor packaging.
I recently got an old tope older VCR from 1985 and it was poorly packed. Which resulted in smashed front bezel being damaged. I have never bought a CRT online as of being scared of it getting destroyed. When I have the time I need to take a look at a couple of VGA monitors that I found at my grandads that were being stored in an old car. The one is a Gateway 2000 and the other is some cheap brand from the early 2000s that I can't remember name of right now.
There should be an agreed upon standard with packing based on the size/weight that can be made into easy instructions everyone can give to shippers and have them agree to follow.
Hey man, I told you about the retro cabal complete confidence. You're out of the circle! This is why I try to keep it local. I have two PVMs and would like a couple of tiny dudes just for aesthetic but I don't want to take the chance on bozos and their lazy packing jobs. I had an apple iiE with hard drives shipped and it was a miracle it arrived without any damage.
I know you repair crt’s but is there anywhere where you prefer for people asking questions? I recently got a toshiba CF13C20 model and bought a Cimple CO modulator so I could try to play my n64 on it and I can not for the life of me figure it out.
6:39 the CRT in the back is a photo from Italy? Seeing all this damaged CRT hurt 😭 luckly my has street find but someone is destroyed maybe i upload a video
Even picking up crts myself they get damaged Ive broke two monitor bases and the swivel piece on one of them I cant imagine the way they get thrown around in postage Seeing all those trinitrons destroyed really hurts as someone who almost exclusively collects sonys
The problem isn't even just poor packaging, it's *handling* . Shipping company employees INTENTIONALLY destroying and mishandling packages as roughly as possible. Why? Because they're losers that hate their lives, and they try to punish customers that make their lives harder by not only shipping 1lb max packages.
Would you believe, I made a deal from California to Alberta, Canada and while I was waiting for the PVM I actually had a nightmare that it arrived damaged?
We KNOW CRTs aren't being shipped properly, so why are we still buying CRTs from individuals online? It's just tragic fate after tragic fate! The buyers contribute to the CRT casualty and price madness as well.
Ohh be great to make some packing videos we can refer people towards and include a hidden question or something so you know they actually watched it or not?
I really wish people would stop shipping crts! Like wtf do yo u expect people! Every time one is shipping we are losing another pvm or other things! Wanna know the solution? Dont ship it! Just drive to go pick it up!
I'd love to send my crt to ya stateside or any crt repair place but just can't cause I guarantee it will be destroyed coming from Ireland. Jesus, even from London and packed up like crazy FedEx, still nearly murdered my 20" ultrascan.
