Although only somewhat related (shipping woes)...
I bought on e-bay a used NEC XG-852 8" CRT projector, seller in Baltimore, MD. The unit weighs 200 lbs and Fedex and UPS said it exceed their weight limit. It was trucked from Baltimore to Los Angeles, then shipped by boat to Hawaii.
When it got here, it was just sitting on a wooden pallet, with a blanket and a what used to be a cardboard box fabricated from other boxes held together by masking tape. The box remnants were sitting next to the unit, the case was cracked and missing some cosmetic pieces and wet from sitting in the rain. After drying it out for several days, i was surprised the unit fired up with no problems at all... weird...
