Maybe QC is all about the cock and not the box.

You’d think that a manufacturer would take the time to make sure their product fits the package. Rather naïvely it appears, I have assumed it would be in a company’s interests to make sure their wares can be displayed effectively. Silly me.

There’s nothing like having to open several boxes of vibrating panties prior to going out on the floor to fold over the “warranty” card because they have cunningly crafted the card to fit exactly within the margins of the rear carton. The punched holes ostensibly provided to hang the box from a hook are strictly decorative then? If it goes into a package, for the love of solvency, do not have certain bits only fit within by obscuring key portions of the wrapper.

Even better are the items packaged in a manner that’s entirely inappropriate. No, I’m not referring to a fist-size butt-plug secured in a clam-shell molded to resemble a very surprised gerbil. That would be warped and possessed of a certain strain of dark humor, but it would survive on the shelves. On the other hand, shrink-wrapping a rubber arm analog to a thick card-stock back-board? Not so much. While the technology to bind items to cardboard by virtue of plastic film is quite mature, it has limits. You see, there is something called "gravity". I hear it’s been in effect for quite a while now. Take something small like a cock-ring or nipple-clamps and you’re golden. Try strapping down ten bloody pounds of dildo and one of two things happens in a matter of days on display; the hook tears through the hole like quintuplets bum-rushing the cervix or the toy starts peeling away from the cardboard in a hideous fashion. Call me daft but it occurs to me that whatever savings you might net from choosing this method of packaging instead of something more robust would be completely negated by the fact merchants don’t want to stock crap that decomposes on the sales floor before a customer can buy it!

I don’t know what chills me more; that no one in the companies possessed the wit to recognize such blatantly fundamental problems or the possibility that these slipped by into production because of even more ridiculous issues.