what is frustration free packaging?
1714288
Yes! The birthday boy opened at his party and immediately started playing:) super easy!
100143
Frustration free means it comes in a smaller box and you have to put all the pieces together. It's pretty easy with this toy. They snap together quite easily. Standard packaging is the traditional kind in the store where the toy is all assembled and you have to have scissors to cut all the ties on the packaging to get the toy out. There is a lot of throw-away with this type of packaging. Hope this helps.
1057134
No idea! I've never tried the "frustration free" - it may refer to a good package that it doesn't break?! :)...
1214803
Frustration free is usually all cardboard and very easy to open. Standard is often difficult to open.
674410
This may be a question for Amazon. I believe the FFP (I haven't seen FFB) stands for Frustration-Free Packaging. You can see this FFP on all kinds of products on Amazon.com
922267
Frustrating free packaging is when you don't need heavy duty scissors and tools to get the toy out of the box and you can play with immediately. Retail package is when it take twenty minutes to release the toy from the box that it came in due to all the screws, ties, straps etc. and strength.
1120645
Webwizardry, I wondered, too, so I Googled it and discovered that in the months since you posted your question, additional online info explaining this kind of packaging has appeared. Turns out that Frustration Free Packaging is an Amazon.com invention that replaces the original packaging with a simple carton. Pros: Less fiddly. Cons: (1) Buyers lose the original artwork, etc. of the original packaging. (2) Buyers take the risk of pieces, instructions, or other items that were sealed in the original packaging getting lost in transit, as it were, during the move from the original packaging to Frustration Free Packaging. For more info -- and a side-by-side comparison -- check out Amazon's YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXcoM1W5kJ4. (While you view, also check out the comments, which include contributions from Amazon customers who've tried both Frustration Free Packaging and standard packaging.) From what I saw at YouTube, Frustration Free Packaging might really come in handy if one is ordering an item for, say, an elderly relative, or someone who has physical or cognitive challenges or is just plain super-strapped for time. For my own part, however, I'd rather spend extra time unwrapping something than risk having the item I ordered arrive with pieces missing. This is doubly true in the case of an item that is made in China, as the "Pandemic Board Game" is. As thousands of Amazon.com reviews indicate, many of us have learned the hard way that items manufactured in China quite often ship with promised components -- e.g. batteries, essential screws, assembly wrenches, instruction sheets, etc. -- missing; I personally see no need to tempt fate by enabling a packaging transfer that offers an additional opportunity for things to go missing! At any rate, Webwizardry, I know that I'm posting this answer long after you posted your question, but I hope that the game shopping that you were doing when you posted your question last year went well. : )
201350
My sets came in the straight packing box with dividers instead of the fancy box in the packing box. Kind like bulk buying. I think that is what it means "frustration-free" packaging.
1636375
I would say that the Frustration-Free Packing is supposed to be easier to open. The bucket with the blocks didn't come in a plastic bag, it was just in the box. Makes for very easy access. Hope this helps :)
1550171
I may be wrong, but I think the "FFP" stands for Frustration Free Packaging, which is part of the Amazon Advertisement/Description.
1530592
It arrives in frustration free packaging. Ours looks just like the picture though and my son loves it.
1625678
Frustration free is just that, it us easy to open. With normal packaging you may need a knife or scissors, with this type it may be just tide with a string and simple knot that comes undone just by pulling the string.
1121639
Comes in a plain brown square box instead of the typical box you see in the store with the zip ties and plastic thingies and tape and all that other stuff that keeps it in place and makes it look appealing on the shelf in a store. So if it is a gift and you want the fun packaging - don't get the frustration free. If you're just gonna take the toy out and start rolling it around, the frustration free is nice :) Hope this helps.
443553
Frustration free is like a package where you get your item straight out of the box where in retail packaging, you get the otterbox retail packaging itself as if you bought it from a retail store. Hope this helped
1371477
You ask a good question and one that I posed to Amazon before making this purchase recently. Unfortunately, Amazon staff could not provide clarity, but I'm pleased to let you know that the item comes perfectly sealed from Apple. In this case, what frustration free packaging means is simply that the item comes in a box specifically made to support (protect) this item in transit. That's all. I'm very pleased that the item was in the same condition it would have been in had I purchased it directly from Apple.
737964
Hi Susan The diffrence between the 80 frustration free packaging and the 85 count is. That the 80 frustration free packaging is that it will not be hard to unpackage when you recive the item.The 85 count will be a little harder to open. Frustration free packaging means it will not very hard to open
443552
I'm not super positive.... I got the standard and it came in retail packaging so I think the frustrations free might come shipped out of the original plastic box.