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Rods shipped in plastic?
Posted on 6/18/25 at 8:41 am
Posted on 6/18/25 at 8:41 am
I decided to buy my newest rod from Amazon simply because they make it so easy. Rod arrives in a plastic bag with a strip of cardboard at the tip. Is this common? I cannot imagine how many get damaged.
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Posted on 6/18/25 at 9:13 am to AlxTgr
Had one shipped like that and they used usps to ship. Arrived at my doorstep with about 4" of the tip broken off. Put in for a replacement and they sent me one in an cardboard box. It was broken in half when I opened the box. They ended up refunding me since they were out of replacements. I didn't have to send them back for a return so I put a tip top on the one and submitted a warranty claim with 13 fishing for the other. I ended up getting 2 free rods out of the deal but was definitely a headache.
Posted on 6/18/25 at 9:14 am to AlxTgr
The few times I've ordered rods online, they've been shipped in cardboard tubes. Wasn't from Amazon though.
Posted on 6/18/25 at 9:18 am to AlxTgr
Any rod I’ve ever ordered online has come in a thick walled cardboard tube, but that wasn’t Amazon. It did stand out to me that those tubes can’t be cheap compared to bubble wrap.
Posted on 6/18/25 at 9:53 am to TheDrunkenTigah
quote:Same, until now.
Any rod I’ve ever ordered online has come in a thick walled cardboard tube
Posted on 6/18/25 at 10:45 am to AlxTgr
Is it possible it came from a local warehouse?
Posted on 6/18/25 at 11:04 am to AlxTgr
I've ordered about 10 this year from bass pro. Half came in tubes and were fine. The other half that came in plastic were all broke in half. Bass pro was good about re ordering and giving me gift cards to compensate, but no idea why the would just wrap in a plastic bag and put on a freight truck
Posted on 6/18/25 at 11:25 am to reds on reds on reds
quote:I suppose, but then I have to ask how it got there.
Is it possible it came from a local warehouse?
Posted on 6/18/25 at 12:02 pm to AlxTgr
I have bought several rods online and they came in a tube either made out of cardboard or pvc. None of them came through Amazon.
Posted on 6/18/25 at 1:11 pm to AlxTgr
At least half of the rods I have purchased online and shipped in the past 5 years, over 10 total rods, have arrived broken even though they all came in thick cardboard tubes. I only buy in store now.
Posted on 6/18/25 at 1:50 pm to AlxTgr
quote:
Rod arrives in a plastic bag with a strip of cardboard at the tip. Is this common?
Yes. people being stupid is quite common.
Posted on 6/18/25 at 4:14 pm to AlxTgr
I've ordered a bunch of rods from various online retailers, and the only time I've had one arrive in anything other than a hard, rigid cardboard or pvc tube was when I found a killer deal on a previous gen Daiwa Steez ags rod off Woot (owned by Amazon) after the new model was released. That one came in a flimsy arse cardboard triangle, but somehow miraculously arrived unscathed.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 11:05 am to AlxTgr
had some amazon rods 2 weeks ago show up like this.
If they would had been anything but ugly sticks no way they would have survived.
Bass pro still ships in a box.
If they would had been anything but ugly sticks no way they would have survived.
Bass pro still ships in a box.
This post was edited on 7/2/25 at 6:44 am
Posted on 6/20/25 at 12:03 pm to Tiger Prawn
Yeah I received one in hard tube with tire marks where someone ran over it with a fork lift, it was broke.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 1:21 pm to joeyp
quote:
I ended up getting 2 free rods out of the deal
Actually, you paid for the first.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 12:52 pm to AlxTgr
Didn't even get to make a cast with it before the tip fell off. Never again.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:17 am to AlxTgr
Ive bought ~100 rod blanks over the past 2 yrs and they have been shipped to me in all manner of packaging including cardboard tubes, pvc tubes, triangular and squared off boxes, and even a large sheet of cardboard scored and rolled around a blank wrapped in bubble wrap.
But no - i havent seen anything shipped in a plastic bag. I am not sure I would accept one shipped tbat way to be honest. Damage to blanks is often not immediately apparent and I wouldnt want a surprise down the road for myself or whoever the rod was intended for.
But no - i havent seen anything shipped in a plastic bag. I am not sure I would accept one shipped tbat way to be honest. Damage to blanks is often not immediately apparent and I wouldnt want a surprise down the road for myself or whoever the rod was intended for.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 6:11 am to AlxTgr
I have never heard of that! All of mine have come in fiber tubes or PVC tubes. Fiber tubes are expensive. I am guessing they are selling these rods so cheap that they can't afford to ship them properly or they just don't know what they are doing.
Tips can break in a tube if they just shove the rod in there without securing the tip. The rods shouldn't be able to slide back and forth in the tube. All the rods I have gotten from Powell, Tackle Warehouse, and Rippin Lips (my favorite catfish rods) have been shipp with the tips wrapped and secured to the tube so they can't slosh back and forth.
Tips can break in a tube if they just shove the rod in there without securing the tip. The rods shouldn't be able to slide back and forth in the tube. All the rods I have gotten from Powell, Tackle Warehouse, and Rippin Lips (my favorite catfish rods) have been shipp with the tips wrapped and secured to the tube so they can't slosh back and forth.
This post was edited on 7/2/25 at 6:18 am
Posted on 7/2/25 at 8:56 am to mrcoon
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Tackle Warehouse
Ordered from them years ago ('08ish-'09ish) and the rod arrived with the tip broken off. They were prompt about sending me a new one. Can't remember how it was shipped. I think in a squared cardboard container.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 9:41 am to SoFla Tideroller
Yes, when they first started shipping they learned real quick how to do it correctly.
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