The good news: Both items arrived today, 10 days after ordering (according to site at time they were "in stock").
The bad news: The Lacie drive and the Wacom (£225) tablet were just sitting on top of each other in a cardboard box with NO packing material or cushioning...
Bubble wrap is surprisingly expensive - I should know, I have to re-order some - but the alternative is having hundreds of dissatisfied customers due to having bits broken off their hardware...
Oh well, bubble wrap affects margins... With their scale of client base, the savings on bubble wrap probably amount to an executive's bonus, and we can't have that can we?
