Is this normal for Rogue shipments?

[d2mini]

Well if that's the case, I wouldn't worry about a bad paint job.

"must spread rep around"
Darnit. lol

[lsi1]

the car and weight lifting equipment analogy is flawed from the beginning. The car moves too and from a dealers inventory where some poor kid is tasked with buffing out scratches or repainting anything much more severe whereas the guy who get's his fitness equipment unwraps it from a box that he has drug all over his house after the shipping company has already had their hands or fork lifts handling it for days or weeks.

[Za78]

I don't see why you had to bring our drug habits into this.

And fine, if the car analogy is flawed, how about an entry level 500 dollar washing machine. Cheap, metal, heavy, fork lifted all the way from China....same deal, I don't care if I buy a 500 dollar or 3000 dollar washer, I expect the product to be delivered in new condition. I also don't believe shipping is a large factor in the damage. The powder coat on my R3 connectors was flaking off because it was poorly applied.

[lsi1]

Maybe I'm different about this but something I buy that I intend on scratching and beating up arrives a little scratched up I just say oh well then start using it instead of babying it cause I'm scared of that first scratch.

When I was first dating my wife I bought a new ford Ranger. I owned it 3 days and took it to the car wash. she backed the truck out of the car wash directly into a telephone pole. took the truck home put the fourwheeler in the bed and jacked the bumper back up into place. Saw that truck a year or so ago the dent i still in the bumper.

My wife bought a fridge from Lowes while opening it they put a 6 inch gouge in the door with a utility knife. they were gonna put it on the truck and take it back and would bring me out another one in a week or 2. I said no and took a small discount then hung some of ky kid's artwork over the scratch. I wasted no time and lost no soeep over worrying about that scratch.

[chadsalt]

I don't see why you had to bring our drug habits into this.

And fine, if the car analogy is flawed, how about an entry level 500 dollar washing machine. Cheap, metal, heavy, fork lifted all the way from China....same deal, I don't care if I buy a 500 dollar or 3000 dollar washer, I expect the product to be delivered in new condition. I also don't believe shipping is a large factor in the damage. The powder coat on my R3 connectors was flaking off because it was poorly applied.

Seriously man what's wrong with you? The washing machine is not going to have metal bars and plates smacking into it from the second it is unboxed.

Now what is this about p/c flaking off? THAT is a valid complaint.

[Za78]

I think this is one of those topics wherein you are either on one side of the fence or the other. Every consumer has different value systems. For some of us, receiving a pristine product regardless of how it is going to be used in important. To others, it is obviously not.

The powder coat on the edges of the 30 inch connectors I got looked odd when I un-boxed, like a layer or two of paint on top of paint. As soon as I touched the spots the half inch to inch of area that looked liked that on two of the pieces flaked right off to bar steel. The boxes they came in were pristine btw, this was a QC issue.