An important message to all card sellers
frankhardy
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To all sellers,
It doesn't take that much tape!
Sincerely,
Me (and many others!)
Shane
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LOL,
Wish I would have taken pictures of the package I recieved for 20 Raw cards a few weeks ago...........Took me 15 minutes of cutting layers of Tape off the inner package......One at a time because of Back N Forth overlapping, must have used an entire Roll of Scotch Transpaerent tape! Thought it was packaged in China, no New Jersey! Cards were safe though....entombed comes to mind!
YeeHah!
Neil
Been there, done that. I had one package with so much tape on it, I had to take a Gatorade break halfway through opening it. Ridiculous.
Years ago, I received cards from a trade in a top loader taped up with so much duct tape. Almost the size of a golf ball. I never got it out of the tape.
Here is what I like (sending and receiving)... Penny sleave, top loader, team bag inside a bubble mailer. GOOD ENOUGH!
That is unless it is a super expensive card. If not graded then the above inside a cardboard sandwich with painters tape is perfect.
Shane
This.
love it. rubber bands are cheap and reusable.
but if youre gonna use tape at least use painters.
This only bothers me if the genius uses an envelope that is barely larger than the item. I am still sore over tearing the top off a large (8x10 or bigger) mailer at about 1/4" down from the edge and ripping my item and was wedged into the envelope!
Sometimes the toploader isn't quite enough and that added cardboard is a lifesaver, but that is only unusual circumstances, most likely in a sorting machine or some other postal equipment. I have seen some gouged toploders and wondered WTF happened here?
I'd take all the tape in the world over the guys who put a graded card with no other protection in a #000 padded mailer, or even better, a 6x9 padded mailer where it gets to move around the entire trip.
Or a raw card - just thrown into a padded mailer without any other protection. And charge 4.95 for that.
Yeah, thanks.
anyone that does that is an @ss
As long as the item arrives to me intact, I typically have no issue with how it is packaged. Now if it arrives damaged and they did a poor job packaging....
Nic
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Talk about perfect timing for a topic.
I got about a dozen packages in the mail today and thought of this thread as I opened each one. Thankfully none were "under packaged". Several were excessively taped up though, like every portion of the surface. One was close to the way i described above, tight and taped up completely, but at least there was a flap that I could cut the tape along and that helped me open it. No complaints here, but still excessive, as the item ( a thin paper brochure or flyer) was in between about 3/4" of cardboard on either side.
The kicker was the WORST mailer I have ever had the displeasure of trying to open. It was about a 4x6 padded mailer, but weirdly crimped looking on all 4 sides around what was obviously a card sized item. I didn't know this at the time though, and tried cutting off one side up to the crimped past. it was sealed. i then did that for the other three sides, getting as close to the item as I felt comfortable with and those three sides remained sealed.
I then tried to pry open one of the sides and ended up ripping off the outer face layer of the mailer! Same thing happened to the other side, yet this stupid card was still sealed. I was finally able to start a tear by prying the two sides apart and then working scissors in to cut across the plane.
I politely offered the seller some feedback that I hope they consider for future mailings. I'd love to know exactly what happened, but I am fairly certain it was effectively shrink wrapped inside the mailer somehow.
Two words
Gaffer tape.
https://www.markertek.com/product/bgt1-12/pro-tapes-001g112mbla112-pro-gaff-gaffers-tape-bgt1-12-1-inch-x-12-yards-mini-roll-black
as long as my cards arrive safe and sound, I really dont care how much tape they use.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.