Okay, for those of you who were interested, I just got the CB BAR back and this is what the package looked like.
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Pretty beat up but so long as everything inside was packaged well, I would image that would be fine. Unfortunately, this is what came out of the box. Nothing was wrapped well and all the hardware was just floating around.
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Here's a close up of the brackets all beat up and scratched.
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And here are shots of the CB BAR itself - you can clearly see it was not only installed but also, for some reason, the brackets were rotated around scratching up the finish.
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All along the bar, there were other blemishes as well due to poor packaging.
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This is this guy's idea of "new condition" and "never been installed".