I've got some large monitors. They came in even larger boxes. The boxes are currently sitting in my store room, taking up a lot of space. I'd like to keep the boxes for when I pass the monitors on, either by selling them or by gifting. Is it reasonable to discard the expanded polystyrene innards and flat-pack the boxes? I'm thinkning that when the time for getting rid of the monitors comes, I could wrap the panels in bubblewrap and fill the boxes with polystyrene chips. Is this a sensible plan? Or is there an obvious flaw I'm missing?
Monitor box storage question
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Some do. I sold a 34" ultrawide earlier this year with iPostParcels I think. They had no problem insuring it and the price was competitive. There's a thread somewhere around here where they discuss couriers for monitors in some depth.
I'm also tempted to flatpack my monitor's massive box. I kept the full retail box+packing for my old monitor which was just as big, but it didn't seem to increase the offers I was getting compared with those selling without a proper box. One of my major concerns though is the retail box is so oversized that my otherwise massive 34" monitor would be 'lost' inside it without the innards specific to it.
Cheers for the information. I was in a similar situation as yourself. I have lots of TV and monitor boxes and they pretty much filled an entire large shed.
In the end I broke most of them down apart from the newer ones. I figured I would just sell local or collection only as the other alternative was to buy another shed to keep storing boxes.
In the end I broke most of them down apart from the newer ones. I figured I would just sell local or collection only as the other alternative was to buy another shed to keep storing boxes.