I guess it was a Samsung television I bought at Costco for $1600.
I packed it myself after I owned it for two years, when I left Honolulu for San Francisco, and it came back looking like this:
Oddly, I just laughed when I pulled the tee-vee out of the box and plugged it in. UPS wouldn’t pay my claim, even though I took out insurance, and my renter’s insurance from USAA, wouldn’t even call UPS, and quoted maritime law, just like the law mentioned in the Dali collision on the Key Bridge in Baltimore Harbor. I laughed again and mumbled, “The Law of the Sea.”
I still can’t believe I accepted life on life terms and let it go. I did put in an old copy of Ace Ventura Pet Detective on my new Kindle Fire TV from Amazon. It’s ten times better than the Samsung, and only cost four hundred dollars. After a brief hope for getting four hundred dollars back, I put in a new DVD. All told, the packing materials cost two hundred, the shipping cost, with insurance, was six hundred, the old teevee was $1600, and the replacement teevee was $400–for a grand total of $2800.
My renter’s insurance has tripled since before Covid, and I know why. I’m paying for all those flooded homes in Florida and North Carolina. Sigh.
Only one other service that costs more–is described in the picture below:
The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective 