Originally posted by eyelikeart
are we getting to the point now that people here are going to argue the authenticity of the images posted up....no matter what they are of?! 
Well, I mean, those are OBVIOUSLY CG-rendered boxes. Real cardboard doesn't rip like that. My third cousin knows a guy who makes cardboard boxes, so I know what I'm talking about. It's all about CORRUGATION, people. And if the box had really been "flooded" some of the ink near the bottom of the box would have run. And you'll notice you don't see any FedEx stickers ANYWHERE on the box. This guy obviously had too much time on his hands and wanted to show us a fake rendered cardboard box in order to draw clicks to his site. Mark my words, next week you'll see "iMac TFT Arrived: Brought to you by Microsoft!"
(Wow, this ad-hoc reasoning is EASY.
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Seriously, though, the guy SHOULD be talking to FedEx. Not that he shouldn't take the hundred bucks from Apple if they're offering, but since FedEx never would have accepted a box for shipping in that condition, and since the delivery guy KNEW what happened to it, it's clear that the damage happened while the box was in FedEx's care. If it were my machine, I would get the tracking number and not only contact FedEx, but also contact Apple, give them the tracking number, and ask them to hound FedEx from
their end as well. A big corporate customer is likely to get further with them than an individual recipient. There's no reason Apple should be paying for this problem, and it sounds like the folks at the Apple Store were a lot nicer about it than they strictly had to be, considering he didn't even buy the machine there. Most companies would have quickly thrown up the NMP(*) field and sent him on his way.
(*) For those who don't know, NMP is "not my problem," and is a force nearly as powerful as the Reality Distortion Field.
