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Some things are attractively packaged. So seeing someone show off that packaging can be quite nice in itself. Sometimes unboxing can give you valuable and othe
by arrrg 12y ago
Some things are attractively packaged. So seeing someone show off that packaging can be quite nice in itself.
Sometimes unboxing can give you valuable and otherwise hard to find information, e.g. how big the transformer is and how it looks. That stuff is typically nowhere to be found, not on the website of whoever made the thing (even if you search for the manual) and often not in reviews (at least if the transformer isn’t extremely enormous or extremely ugly or otherwise noteworthy).
First impressions tend to be pretty useless in my opinion since it’s not very thought out and all very subjective. Maybe sometimes something useful is said, but it’s mostly useless.
It’s also good for getting a non-product-photo look at the product. For some things there just aren’t any video reviews and photos often just don’t cut it. It’s always good to get more than one look at a product.
- diydsp 12y agoI just did an unboxing video (of the Bitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuMKHX91Mk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuMKHX91Mk) and part of my motivation had to do with the packaging. Not the Bitbox's packaging, but the postal wrapper which came from France. As an American, I've felt a small bit of fear as I've watched our financial resources diminish. When I saw the multi-colored postal package, with its delicate rose-colored gradient, I had the distinct cognition "Hey, there's a country and a people unafraid to spend some resources on making their postal packages look good." We should get our national shit together.
- daturkel 12y agoSee the recent redesign for USPS http://grand-army.com/work/projects/project.php?project=usps_retail http://grand-army.com/work/projects/project.php?project=usps...