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@ccmwl7 wrote:

I'm looking for a sturdy, secure and reliable box for posting a 3.5 in internal hard disk in case the winning bidder wants me to post it.

 

Asking because I had a previous sour exerience of a buyer receiving his hard drive and suffering more than a thousand bad sectors. Prior to postage, I had ran a thorough scan of it using HD Sentinel Pro which returned with perfect working order and zero bad sectors. I was frustrated as I had packed the hard drive inside an anti static bag and wrapped multiple layers of bubble wrap, placed the entire lot in a plastic box, then finally even wrapped multiple layers of bubble around the box itself.

 

Any advice which box (preferably something from Australia Pos) would be most secure for shipping a very fragile 3.5 inch internal hard drive?

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Did this previous buyer ask for/get a refund based on his claim of bad sectors?

This is a claimed fault that cannot be photographed and therefore is only the buyer's word against yours.

In cases like this I would insist that the buyer raise an INAD return claim to get their money back.

Then if/when they did that then you accept the return.

This means they have to actually mail it (or something) back with tracking to get anything back.

That will likely put them off and they can't be bothered proceeding with the claim if its fake.