My 73 inch TV came in a 67 inch box. WTF?

[fritzi93]

Send it back and tell them they're a bunch of crooks.

[deadrats]

@dafoe

if it's any consolation, i once came in a 67" box, scarred me for life, still haven't fully recovered.

butt seriously, you have a right to be pissed, those bastards actually screwed you out of at least 6 inches (much like mother nature did), it takes some set of balls to stuff a 73" tv into a 67" box, i know i wouldn't stand for it, if i were you i would march right back to that store and start tearing everyone a new one, they can probably use it.

[sum_guy]

Fortunately electronics retailers here in the United States are hiring large numbers of personel for the holidays, to mope around there stores sullenly till closing time, often asking if theres anything they can help you with when in reality, they don't know the answer and they don't give a shit. I saw that Staples Office Supply announced that they would be hiring extra customer service personal to act annoyed with the inevitable returns. You may have to get a level 3 customer support rep to just figure out this perplexing dilemma. God Speed Man!

Some tricks I like to use when returning stuff...

1. Come in totally hung over and sleep deprived and explain that the device is ruining your life as it cannot be made to function as advertised, before they can even respond with "did you try..." cut them off and get loud and say "This device is pure evil and must be destroyed".

2. Drag the offending merchandise back into the store on a dog chain or leash, act like it's putting up a helluva fight. The look of it alone is enough most customer service personell to give up to your every demand. Tell them, don't get to close to it, it has a mind of its own.

3. This one requires some good acting or a little jalepeno on the fingers, you drag it back in, you look like you haven't slept in days, you tell them you want to return it, they ask why, you rub a little jalepeno in your eyes and get the weeping (wailing, moaning and outright balling out loud may be needed). But you will get your refund.

I hope this helps. I really do, and if you could get a friend to shoot video of it, please post it on the forums here.

[M Bruner]

Fortunately electronics retailers here in the United States are hiring large numbers of personel for the holidays, to mope around there stores sullenly till closing time, often asking if theres anything they can help you with when in reality, they don't know the answer and they don't give a shit. I saw that Staples Office Supply announced that they would be hiring extra customer service personal to act annoyed with the inevitable returns. You may have to get a level 3 customer support rep to just figure out this perplexing dilemma. God Speed Man!

Some tricks I like to use when returning stuff...

1. Come in totally hung over and sleep deprived and explain that the device is ruining your life as it cannot be made to function as advertised, before they can even respond with "did you try..." cut them off and get loud and say "This device is pure evil and must be destroyed".

2. Drag the offending merchandise back into the store on a dog chain or leash, act like it's putting up a helluva fight. The look of it alone is enough most customer service personell to give up to your every demand. Tell them, don't get to close to it, it has a mind of its own.

3. This one requires some good acting or a little jalepeno on the fingers, you drag it back in, you look like you haven't slept in days, you tell them you want to return it, they ask why, you rub a little jalepeno in your eyes and get the weeping (wailing, moaning and outright balling out loud may be needed). But you will get your refund.

I hope this helps. I really do, and if you could get a friend to shoot video of it, please post it on the forums here.

And all it would have cost you was your self respect.

[sum_guy]

Haha M Bru, I'm so tempted to go buy something trivial at a couple retailers, get the script written and handheld film crew ready, I'm a middled age guy with a ton of health problems, it would totally make my day just to get the reactions on film, it's no fun if they just treat me nice and hand me a refund, the trick is to make the return look so devastating they hope they never have to go thru it again.

Don't get me wrong, I have a fantastic job, but I get bored easily!

[sum_guy]

You are right tho, you just can't put a price on self respect, although, I can assure you I'm hoping to be underbid

[handyguy]

A 32" tv is just 31.5" wide, but that includes the border too. So your box is the right size.

[Backpain]

When you remove the "shrink wrap" the TV will expand to the correct size that you ordered.

[betwixt]

As it's a super thin LCD TV, is it possible they folded it up to make it fit a cheaper box?

[dphirschler]

Maybe the TV is packed in the box sideways?


Darryl

[chowmein]

Maybe your TV was fully loaded and didn't wanna make a mess everywhere?

[ronnylov]

Maybe you need to turn the box in another direction when you measure from bottom left to top right corner and then measure it from top left to bottom right corner.

Se attached picture and measure as the green arrow, not the red one.

[neomaine]

Ok, we've got to hear from dafoe now... Common man, where are you?!?!

[McIverLI]

I knew this would happen when they started up the Hadron Collider and started creating mini-black holes!!!

[fritzi93]

Ok, we've got to hear from dafoe now... Common man, where are you?!?!

Poor guy, he gets a brain cramp and is unwise enough to post it without thinking it over.

Funniest thread in a long time, though.

[neomaine]

No doubt, this has been some good stuff. I just wish he'd come back for an encore!

[TBoneit]

No no no!!!!

You measure from top to bottom, then side to side, add the two, take that total then divide by 3.14159265

Only for circular screens

You could of course measure top to bottom, then side to side, square each measurement, add the two and take the square root of the answer.
Hey, wait, that would actually work!

My first TV set had a 10" round screen, B & W RCA BTW. There was no Diagonal on it.

you sure it was completely round? i recall an early b&w rca tv of ours had curved sides but was flat on top and bottom.

Yup I'm sure. I had the chassis out more than once. What they did with the cabinet is mask off the top & bottom of the round tube. They had to do that or people would be complaining about the blank screen on the top & bottom of the picture.

I believe they may have done that on the first color TV sets too as the sides were rounded the same way.

AS I remember it the round tube were much easier and cheaper to make then a rectangular tube.

In fact this is the model as I remember it. I'll attach a picture. RCA Radiotron type 10BP4 television cathode ray picture tube.

It was great I had my own personal TV set. I used to be able to watch the NYC & Philadelphia stations on it.

[wrathofbod]

so funny.the best thread ai have raed for a long time.

[coasthi]

This Forum Rocks
Who ever said Video editing was boring ???

[ricoman]

I'll tell you another funny TV related story: Many years ago,I was in Puerto Rico for a rock concert. It was a complete disaster, but that's another story for another time. Anywho, my ex-wife, a friend and I rented a hotel room for the last day or so. When in the hotel we had a big argument with the hotel manager who hated white-bread hippies from the mainland. We were quite pissed, so while sitting and drinking a bottle of rum, we talked about getting even with the manager. My bud, suggested that we steal the TV. My ex immediately piped up like he was a jerk and said: "What good would that do, once we got it back home, it would only talk Puerto Rican." Me and my bud just looked at her in disbelief, waiting for her to laugh like it was a joke. It wasn't!!! Obviously, I didn't marry her for her brains.

[sum_guy]

If I lived anywhere near dafoe, I'd buy the man a drink, maybe even a steak dinner to go with it. I hope he is taking this all in as good clean fun.

I'd also like to mention that no animals were hurt in the production of this thread.

[sum_guy]

Suppose the Television (that weighs 800 N) goes onto a scale that is on the floor of an elevator. If the elevator accelerates upward at a rate of 5m/s^2...
Before the Television goes onto the scale, the scale reads 0 N.
When the Television goes on the scale, the Television exerts an 800 N force DOWN on the scale.
The scale exerts an (800 N + scale’s weight) force DOWN on the floor of the elevator.
The scale can not accelerate DOWN, because the floor of the elevator is exerting a force UP equal to the (800 N + scale’s weight)
These 2 forces DOWN and 2 forces UP compress the spring inside the scale, causing the scale to 800 N.
Now you need to determine the force that caused the elevator to accelerate upward at a rate of 5m/s^2.
Force = mass * acceleration
The mass of the 800 N Television = 800 ÷ 9.8
Force = (800 ÷ 9.8) * 5 = 408 N
As the elevator accelerates upward, the floor of the elevator exerts a 408 N force UP on the bottom of the Television.
This 408 N force compresses the Television farther causing the scale to read = 1208 N
<scratching head> I think I lost myself... <erases blackboard>
ok, I'm gonna take a little break.

[M Bruner]

@dafoe

if it's any consolation, i once came in a 67" box, scarred me for life, still haven't fully recovered.

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You know a girl with a 67" box? Was it the Octomom?

[JimmyS]

If Al was still alive today, he would probably feel slighted that no one has figured this out yet.
It was manufactured in a facility traveling about .4 C.

[sum_guy]

Measurement is simple, length and mass, and dividing by the square of the time.

Geez, do I have to spell out the specific gravity of televisions?

Force = length / timetime * mass

I'm going to bed, I can't find my tape measure or my stopwatch.

[Steve Stepoway]

If Al was still alive today, he would probably feel slighted that no one has figured this out yet.
It was manufactured in a facility traveling about .4 C.

No, the TV was traveling about .4c when it slammed into the stationary empty box (box had to be stationary, of course, or it would have shrunk also). Close the open end flap of the box before the TV has a chance to become completely stationary and rebound to its rest size. Viola, a 73 inch TV in a 67 inch box. Course you have also captured the extra mass-energy of the TV at .4c. When you open the box all that extra mass-energy is released and ... oops.

[neomaine]

If Al was still alive today, he would probably feel slighted that no one has figured this out yet.
It was manufactured in a facility traveling about .4 C.

No, the TV was traveling about .4c when it slammed into the stationary empty box (box had to be stationary, of course, or it would have shrunk also). Close the open end flap of the box before the TV has a chance to become completely stationary and rebound to its rest size. Viola, a 73 inch TV in a 67 inch box. Course you have also captured the extra mass-energy of the TV at .4c. When you open the box all that extra mass-energy is released and ... oops.

Einstein wouldn't be impressed. You can't measure something outside your relative frame of referrence. Traveling away from you the 67" TV would be blueshifted and appear to be 73" long. Traveling toward you it would be red shifted and appear to be only 67 inches. Wait, I think I've got it. Dafoe must have seen it red-shifted and got splattered onto the box as it came toward him.

There, I have both the answer to the size riddle and why dafoe hasn't responded.

[Steve Stepoway]

neomaine, you may have it, except you are backwards: red-shift equals motion away from you (longer wavelength); blue-shift towards you (shorter wavelength).

[neomaine]

steve step,

Thanks for the correction. I didnt' even want to burden dafoe with purple shifting, if it's moving away to the right, or green shifting, if it's moving towards you from the left. Wait, maybe if I reorient myself north/south and turn to my left... Ow, my head hurts...

[ricoman]

The poor OP, he'll never ask another question again!