Rod wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim S wrote:
"Why did they put a nice little cardboard box that worked perfectly well
in a silly plastic shell whose sole purpose is to cut my fingers before
I chuck it in the bin?"

One reason would be to prevent tampering.

There seems to be a fashion to open up just about anything you can - and
then not buy it. Or nick something from it.

Probably follows the manufacturers' fashion of putting things like these
(below) on boxes:

Contents may differ from picture
Colour White/Grey/Black/Blue/Red
110-120V 60Hz

Indeed, just the other day, we wished to buy a small roll of cheap
plastic bags. The box said "small plastic bags" - without any indication
of actual size. There were around half a dozen opened and/or resealed
boxes on the shelf. :-)

Mor eseriously, I do agree. There do appear to be more (or more active)
tamperers/fiddlers/bit nickers.

Not surprising when,because of the cost of the packaging, only complete
kits of anything are for sale. you cant get spare parts.

See my posts a few months back on trying to get a Sunvic RECEIVER or
even a BOARD for it for a wireless stat.