For the price, this seemed like a great deal on a safe, but in the end, you’ll end up paying a lot more than you expect for delivery. I also have reasonable suspicion that this safe was a returned item that got shipped to me as “new”.
Let’s start with the $370 freight delivery fee which only includes dropping it on your driveway. When I arranged for the delivery, Optics Planet said nothing to me about this and made no mention of “white glove” service that I would learn of only after I spoke with the freight company to make the final delivery arrangements. If you want it delivered in your house, make sure to tell Optics Planet that before you agree to any shipping cost. Based on some basic research online, I believe the inside delivery of this size safe would have been an additional $400 in my case because of the stairs in my house. Fortunately I have friends with able bodied high school seniors who were willing to help me move it. They would have done it for pizza, but I gave them $140 for their effort.
Second of all, there was considerable scratches and dents on this thing. If I can figure out how to add pictures to this review I will. The box was pretty messed up, and the pallets it was on were completely destroyed. In fact, one of the lag bolts that held the safe to the pallet was not even screwed in any longer because the wood was so busted up. The pallets were so damaged that the delivery driver and I had to work together to get the pallet jack through all the b...
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