What is the difference betwee frustration free and standard packaging?
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My guess is that it isn't packaged inside that incredibly annoying hard plastic that tries to slice your hand open when you struggle to tear it open.
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Here is the information on "Frustration-Free Packaging": http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200285450. It looks like they use less materials to ship the order. I chose the standard shipping, but the item looks like what the image appears for the carafe when you click the frustration-free option. The standard packaging was the option for Amazon Prime, and it arrived in a brown box with the air pillow and was in excellent condition. Hope this helps!
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Frustration-Fee packaging contains less plastic blister packed items that are difficult to open. It is recycled material. All manufactured pieces are included. It's just easier to open and easier on the environment.
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Standard packaging is the thick, secured plastic packaging you may find at a local store. It's the packaging you have to use some super scissors or a razor blade to cut through...and hopefully not slicing your finger. Hence, the frustration-free packaging which is a cheaper packaging. If you owned a store front, you may want to get the standard packaging to minimize people stealing your product...however, if you are like me who is just buying the product...it's a nice alternative that reduces your cost of the exact same product.
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Comes in a plain brown square box instead of the typical box you see in the store with the zip ties and plastic thingies and tape and all that other stuff that keeps it in place and makes it look appealing on the shelf in a store. So if it is a gift and you want the fun packaging - don't get the frustration free. If you're just gonna take the toy out and start rolling it around, the frustration free is nice :) Hope this helps.
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If memory serves, "Frustration-free" packaging is packaging that is easier to open. Sometimes, more than likely, frustration-free packaging will take longer to ship than standard packaging.
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I'm not super positive.... I got the standard and it came in retail packaging so I think the frustrations free might come shipped out of the original plastic box.
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Standard packaging is a pain to get open; usually plastic sealed around the edges, pieces difficult to get out of pkg. Frustration free packaging is easy open.
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It comes in a simple package that doesn't require power tools to open. I'm sure you know that many things come in plastic that requires, at least, a sharp pair of scissors. Frustration free just means that it doesn't come in that type of packaging and you will be able to remove it from the box/envelope and use it immediately.
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Frustration-Free is just different packaging. Same bulb. Go w/ the cheapest, usually Frustration Free.
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Frustrated free is an open box item sent in bubble wrap standard is much better
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If you mean frustration free packaging, that means they'll send you the actual product box, rather than the product box shipped inside a plain brown box, hence standard shipping (I believe).
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I'm not really sure what you mean by 'frustration free packaging' but, if you mean is it hard to open the package? From what I remember, no. It was in a box and securely wrapped. Hope this helped!
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I went with retail packaging. Came in the same packaging that you would see in best buy or any retail store. Didn't want to chance getting standard packaging.
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I think the difference is just packaging. This product has no box, instead just plastic zip.
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You ask a good question and one that I posed to Amazon before making this purchase recently. Unfortunately, Amazon staff could not provide clarity, but I'm pleased to let you know that the item comes perfectly sealed from Apple. In this case, what frustration free packaging means is simply that the item comes in a box specifically made to support (protect) this item in transit. That's all. I'm very pleased that the item was in the same condition it would have been in had I purchased it directly from Apple.
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Frustration Free Packaging (FFP) is recyclable packaging that is designed for the specific product and tested for durability. I use it any time that it's available! Here's a link with more info: