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pab1969
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Time for a quick vent. I get very annoyed with sellers that ship graded cards in nothing other than a bubble mailer. Especially from a known bigtime seller like 4 sharp corners. I paid $200 to have my graded card arrive today without any cardboard protection or even a plastic card sleeve. This isn't the first time with them that I received such service with graded card purchases. I refuse to leave them positive feedback for this lazy service. It's only a matter of time when the post office will damage one of these graded card orders. That's when I will leave negative feedback.
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About 4 months ago I purchased five 1975 Topps Baseball commons in PSA 9 condition as I'm trying to complete the entire set in PSA 8/9 condition. The seller did not even put them in bubble wrap. He just put the five slabs in an envelope. Of course all five slabs cracked with multiple fractures. When I contacted the seller he said he was in a rush to get ample items shipped and apologized. He did the right thing and refunded my purchase plus he let me keep the cards.
I've left 4SC negative feedback twice for same thing so far this year. Both times it was removed by eBay in less than 12 hours. Makes me seriously wonder how much more negative feedback large sellers like them truly have and if in effect they they in effect paying eBay to have feedback deleted?
My guess is the large of amount of shown negative feedback for a seller like Probstein is only a mere fraction of the neg's that were actually given! At least 4SC does not actively swindle as Probstein does (look at their feedback) - for example ship only 1 or 2 cards in a 5 card purchase.
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That's too much work for sellers of large volume as you usually have to cut some cardboard to size, not to mention storing it, when probably 99% of packages will arrive fine. Even more so if the seller pays for the extra insurance, then there is no need since they'll be covered. I will say that I appreciate a 4x7 bubble mailer with the card inside stuffed inside a 6x8 bubble mailer with the label.
Nah, you don't have to cut it. You can buy pre-cut cardboard the size of graded cards.
Shipped and received hundreds of graded cards naked in a bubble mailer with zero issues. Multiple card, definitely use cardboard. But fail to see how a graded cards in a sleeve, in the proper size mailer, would take damage.
I'm sure most are fine, however I tape them in a piece of recycled Amazon bubble mailer and cardboard also. I'm a mail carrier, and I've seen what the packages go through.
Do you have a link? I might buy some!
I see a lot of these types of card protectors with stuff I order these days.
I like them and now have a small saved.
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I cant believe a seller would ship a graded card without protection in a bubble mailer. Talk about risky.
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My graded cards go out in a graded penny sleeve, with a cut down to size manilla file folder in a bubble mailer. So far no problems. If it is a higher valued card, then it goes the same way but with bubble wrap and in a small USPS priority box.
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I once bought a graded pack from a small seller who normally has a dozen to two dozen listings at a time. Pack was shipped in a non-padded envelope and had the pack sandwiched between two cardborad cutouts that did not completely cover the pack. The pack was fine - no cracks in the case. It did, though, make me think twice about buying from the seller again.
Sent and received hundreds with no issues. The inch of hard plastic does a pretty good job of protecting the card, not sure what a thin piece of cardboard is going to prevent. Takes a pretty big blow to crack a slab.
Maybe you're just too lucky. I've had both PSA slabs and DVD cases damaged because sellers didnt use cardboard.
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I have shipped hundreds, probably thousands of both raw and graded cards. never yet a problem.
I always use cardboard to surround raw cards that are in sleeves and then bubble mailed.
I fail to see how 2 pieces of cardboard will keep a slabbed card from damage if the damage was great enough to actually crack/crush the slab?
any card I sell that is over say $250 or so, I will spring for the extra 5 bucks and ship it out in a priority box.
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It sometimes feels like the USPS tries to damage certain packages. I don't buy a lot of graded cards but have had cards show up in toploaders that have cracked. Those are farily flexible, so not sure what is happening to make them crack! I could see how a graded card case could crack if abused, sent only in a thin padded mailer.
It's cheap insurance to pad the card inside the outer package. Most of the time you don't need it, but when you do and didn't prepare, it's too late.