Are steam decks still being stolen in transit?

[Jynx]

I'm considering ordering the 1tb steam deck but I found out there was a huge problem with them being stolen in transit due to easily identifiable packaging. Have they changed this? And is there shipping insurance I can get? $650 is a lot of money to lose.

[Pierce Dalton]

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaevnkU4F4

Top comment says:

"I’ve had this experience twice myself - once with LCD model and then again with the OLED..."

And here I was thinking I was unlucky...

[Abigail From Sneaky Squid Dept.]

They really need to start cracking down on porch pirates. Had someone swipe like $75 in fish food once and fish medication once. Hope they got their milage out of it. XD

[rawWwRrr]

Jynx님이 먼저 게시:

Top comment says:

"I’ve had this experience twice myself - once with LCD model and then again with the OLED..."

And here I was thinking I was unlucky...

Which they continue by saying "That said, Valve made everything right very quickly and I made sure to pick up the package from a local FedEx location as opposed to having it delivered. "

[Pierce Dalton]

rawWwRrr님이 먼저 게시:

Jynx님이 먼저 게시:

Top comment says:

"I’ve had this experience twice myself - once with LCD model and then again with the OLED..."

And here I was thinking I was unlucky...

Which they continue by saying "That said, Valve made everything right very quickly and I made sure to pick up the package from a local FedEx location as opposed to having it delivered. "

Yes, and?

[Jynx]

Pierce Dalton님이 먼저 게시:

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaevnkU4F4

Top comment says:

"I’ve had this experience twice myself - once with LCD model and then again with the OLED..."

And here I was thinking I was unlucky...

jeeze.....this has been an issue since 22 at least. You would think they would just change the box. So people are getting refund/replacements it sounds like. That makes me feel better about ordering. Cross my fingers I guess.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Out of the 3+ million sold and shipped, probably a few thousand by carrier employees or porch pirates.

That's less than Amazon has in a month.

[rawWwRrr]

Jynx님이 먼저 게시:

jeeze.....this has been an issue since 22 at least. You would think they would just change the box. So people are getting refund/replacements it sounds like. That makes me feel better about ordering. Cross my fingers I guess.

I've ordered two. Had two delivered unscathed. You're mostly only going to hear about the ones that are stolen. There are FAR MORE that get delivered just fine.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

rawWwRrr님이 먼저 게시:

Jynx님이 먼저 게시:

jeeze.....this has been an issue since 22 at least. You would think they would just change the box. So people are getting refund/replacements it sounds like. That makes me feel better about ordering. Cross my fingers I guess.

I've ordered two. Had two delivered unscathed. You're mostly only going to hear about the ones that are stolen. There are FAR MORE that get delivered just fine.

Same here. Both delivered on time and without issues.

But the vocal minority will always scream louder than the rest. Not saying they're wrong to do so but you don't get views or clicks for successful deliveries.

[Chika Ogiue]

Seeing threads like this, all I can think is that a lot of you live in really scummy places.

[Mr. Smiles]

Chika Ogiue님이 먼저 게시:

Seeing threads like this, all I can think is that a lot of you live in really scummy places.

This, I've had two index headsets (due to RMA on the first one) and a deck ship to my address just fine...

[Pierce Dalton]

Jynx님이 먼저 게시:

Pierce Dalton님이 먼저 게시:

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaevnkU4F4

Top comment says:

"I’ve had this experience twice myself - once with LCD model and then again with the OLED..."

And here I was thinking I was unlucky...

jeeze.....this has been an issue since 22 at least. You would think they would just change the box. So people are getting refund/replacements it sounds like. That makes me feel better about ordering. Cross my fingers I guess.

They probably have thousands of those boxes and don't wanna replace them because it would be a waste of money (throwing the old ones in the trash bin).

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Chika Ogiue님이 먼저 게시:

Seeing threads like this, all I can think is that a lot of you live in really scummy places.

You don't need to live in a scummy place to have people that work for the carriers to be the scum nor do the people that literally travel from place to place stealing crap from porches.

A lot of scum of all types moved out of the low class areas and branched out into bigger cities to do their criminal things.

Amazon has the highest turnover rate for delivery driver theft out of them all.

[Pierce Dalton]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce님이 먼저 게시:

Out of the 3+ million sold and shipped, probably a few thousand by carrier employees or porch pirates.

That's less than Amazon has in a month.

:winterbunny2023:

Yeah, I don't think anyone is saying it happens to all of them... it just happens.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Pierce Dalton님이 먼저 게시:

cSg|mc-Hotsauce님이 먼저 게시:

Out of the 3+ million sold and shipped, probably a few thousand by carrier employees or porch pirates.

That's less than Amazon has in a month.

Yeah, I don't think anyone is saying it happens to all of them... it just happens.

People like to inflate the numbers to way more than seems possible. But you don't get any attention when you have happy deliveries.

[Chika Ogiue]

cSg|mc-Hotsauce님이 먼저 게시:

You don't need to live in a scummy place to have people that work for the carriers to be the scum nor do the people that literally travel from place to place stealing crap from porches.

A lot of scum of all types moved out of the low class areas and branched out into bigger cities to do their criminal things.

Well, where I live, no one would even contemplate stealing from a porch. I mean, we don't even need to lock our doors. That's how safe and how low the crime rate is. The last time the police came round here due to a crime, was about 3 years ago when they were looking for witnesses to a fight. Other than that we see them perhaps once a year when they're updating records.

I also said nothing about during delivery, that's unavoidable in most places. My dad used to know a postman in the UK, this guy was an absolute idiot. He used to steal post looking for cheques and cash. He got busted when the police raided his house and found he'd tried to stuff the post behind his radiator.

As for myself, I've lost exactly 2 parcels in over 20 years. Both lost in the US before even reaching my country. The first was a special parcel from 2K; they sent a different parcel later but I always wondered what was in the first. The second had signed Mafia 2 stuff, limited edition Zippo not available to the public and other sweet swag. The second was a game ordered from Amazon US, nothing special and very niche so whoever snagged that likely felt ripped off =).