bought harddrive from amazon and it came only inside a plastic rap in a random brown box.

[Bishop235]

Alright so as the title states I got my harddrive today and I open the prime box to find another brown box holding a plastic rap with the harddrive inside. I'm alittle bit upset not sure if I should return it but that means waiting for another one to come so I wont be able to build my new pc until it does. It was shipped by amazon and sold by amazon llc. O and just for verification it was "new".

[Aytex]

check if it works or not

[Bishop235]

Cant check yet still waiting for a few components to come.

[Aytex]

Cant check yet still waiting for a few components to come.

open it up and check if its ok.

maybe the worker was lazy or something and fired

[spwath]

that's how they usualy are/

[mad dudy]

was the "plastic rap" silver and looked something like this? http://www.amazon.com/Antistatic-Bags-Resealable-6X10-Pack/dp/B000BSN274

if so thats normal, you didnt buy a retail boxed one.

[Psykomantis00]

Did you buy it from amazon or a seller on amazon? Check and make sure first because it doesn't always select amazon by default. 

[daniellearmouth]

It's normal.

 

They're seldom shipped in a proper box and usually just get shipped in plastic wrap and a generic brown box. If it's padded, though, it should be perfectly fine.

[Bishop235]

Yes silver bag looks just like that what do you mean I didn buy a retail boxed one

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

You mean like this?

 

 

That's how all my HDDs came in.

[Bishop235]

Yep exactly like that it but inside a random brown box not the retail seagate box.

[smjpl]

Yep exactly like that it but inside a random brown box not the retail seagate box.

 

That is normal. I've gotten numerous drives from Amazon in a unbranded box. The bag is just an antistatic bag to protect the drive.

[MichaelBroughan]

All the hard drives have come in an anti-static bag and some weird air-cushioning substance (like bubble wrap but air bubbles different shape and much thicker) without manufacturer boxing or anything, so I think this is normal. Correct me if I'm wrong though 

[Bishop235]

Ok thank you all then. Just wanted to ask the forums to see if this was normal or not.

[MblaZe7run]

That would be called OEM packaging. It's how the drives are sent to computer manufacturers, and if you buy an OEM drive, how it is shipped to you. It's my preferred packaging. 2x dead retail drives, 5x live OEM drives. Only every ordered 7, call it coincidence, call it fate. I'll stick to OEM myself.

[burnttoastnice]

Alright so as the title states I got my harddrive today and I open the prime box to find another brown box holding a plastic rap with the harddrive inside. I'm alittle bit upset not sure if I should return it but that means waiting for another one to come so I wont be able to build my new pc until it does. It was shipped by amazon and sold by amazon llc. O and just for verification it was "new".

 

If it's OEM it most likely won't come in retail packaging. About 90% of the things I order from Amazon come in bags and boxes without any branding whatsoever

[MaximusX]

You mean like this?

 

 

That's how all my HDDs came in.

Same here.

[Bishop235]

Alright so I ha e verified and it certainly is listed as a bare drive so I really appreciate those that said it. Thank you all I was just confused a bit. Still a bit weird how it got shipped with no bubble wrap or anything though.

[Psykomantis00]

Yep exactly like that it but inside a random brown box not the retail seagate box.

 

They usually offer an option of normal retail box and then the hassle free option. It's not a big deal. Did it come like this? 

 

[Guest]

Yep exactly like that it but inside a random brown box not the retail seagate box.

Did you buy the OEM edition?

And did you buy it from Amazon? Or off of amazon?