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I purchased a new keyboard K70 Corsair that I intended to replace with my old one a post it back to Amazon claiming that I was sent the wrong item. I purchased this from the Amazon warehouse section to improve the likely hood that this would work.

However, I failed to account for 2 things those being that Amazon would have a weight measured of what I was posted ( I have only SE'ed small items before ) and that my old keyboard doesn't fit inside the box and leaves the internal box sticking out in a very obvious way.

I then decided I would try and pull this off but now think this would not work. I have now come across the dry ice method but the weight on the Amazon packaging is marked as 1.8 KG.

https://youtu.be/vPhZzsAgc7Q?t=14

This is is what 0.9 kg of dry ice looks like. How I'm supposed have the smoke not so blatantly obvious and allow the gas to escape for nearly 2x the amount in the video.

I'm leaning towards getting dry ice pellets delivered to use but I am still sceptical and may just return it as it may be a bit risky. As of yet, I have not contacted Amazon and the item arrived yesterday. Amazon account is only with 1 instances of SE with a lot of purchases over 6 years. Check my first post to see the background on that.


Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thank you

You're over complicating things now, use the box method it should work like a charm. If I were to use the box method I would make sure to tape up any openings that way the gas doesn't seep out when you're at the post office.
Good luck. If you need further help just ask around!

I would have to seal the box with a cover because nobody would accept a package where the box cant close. I'm looking at a bin bag and taping it all around. But would Amazon even in the first place sell something where the box doesn't close at all?. They would have a protocol where they cant ship something if the box is not sealed? and would have raised flags when they initially had it returned to them from the previous purchaser don't you think.

And with sealing the box with a bag with this much dry ice wouldn't it have a chance of vapours being present when they opened it. Let alone have the small likely hood of expanding the container. The only way around this is to create small air holes.

I'm looking at adding around 0.4kg to bring the weight of the package up and then telling Amazon that the product does not work. As I have read they don't check very hard when items are returned that are under faulty. Can anybody think of something I can place or hide to add weight ?.