Opinions need from my forum brothers

onlyanumber

Okay here's the situation. I started collecting those Chillee Willy cards. I'm getting them pretty cheap in PSA 10s. Well, a raw Nolan Ryan came up on Ebay with a price tag of $15.00. I bought it without even thinking twice (considering I've purchased 5 PSA 10s of commons for less than $7 total). I send out payment, seller charged $3.00 for shipping. The card comes in today and I'm mortified. The seller stuck the card in some sort of thank you card in a plain white envelope with a .41 cent stamp. The card came in undamaged, but I'm ticked. I can live with getting a little gouged on shipping, but not when there is no protection whatsoever in shipping the card.

He hasn't left me feedback yet, and I have yet to for him. He has close to 2000 positives, and a few of his positives do allege piss poor shipping practices (unfortunately those feedbacks were received after my auction win).

Should I voice my disgust with his shipping practices even though I got the card okay? I'm not looking for the $2.50 back, I just want to gripe at him for being so careless in shipping a card. I mean he's obviously been on Ebay a while and knows what it's like to get a scare in the mail like that. I'm sure he would have a problem if someone sent him a card in a plain white envelope. Why do that to someone else???

Or should I just let it go, count my blessings and never look at his auctions again?

Yankeeefan

Since the card came in undamaged, I'd leave a positive, but make a comment about the lack of protection for the card. Then post his Ebay user name for anyone on the boards that may want to avoid/block him.

storm888

"Should I voice my disgust with his shipping practices even though I got the card okay?"

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No.

mikeschmidt

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Or should I just let it go, count my blessings and never look at his auctions again? >>



Really no upside for you to get all in a tizzy about $2.50. Consider yourself lucky and learned, be happy with your card, and ensure that you never bid on that guy's auctions again.

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

Pos fb saying he uses plain white unpadded envelopes or

neg star for shipping practices. I know I'd like to know if I was getting a plain envelope.

Elemenopeo

I had the same situation come up with a few tobacco cards that came in the mail yesterday -- three 100-year-old cards slipped bare into a plain white envelope and sent on their way. Hard to tell what damage was already there or not, though. Cripes.

HeritageAddict

I think this is where the new rating system comes in handy, you got the card undamaged so you shouldn't really leave him a neg., but you can sure rate his shipping charges with a 1 star, I find myself doing this more and more.

cardbender

<< <i>I think this is where the new rating system comes in handy, you got the card undamaged so you shouldn't really leave him a neg., but you can sure rate his shipping charges with a 1 star, I find myself doing this more and more. >>



This is true, unfortunately there's not a category on feedback for poor packaging to indicate a shoddy packing job like Onlyanumber experienced. The shipping amount charged sounded reasonable but you would expect a padded mailer. Another flaw with ebay's RB changes. They should add a fifth sub-category for packaging. You would see ton's of sellers with a rating of 2.0 in this area.

I just got 8 packages (mostly PSA cards) today, and only four of them were properly packaged.

To answer your initial question, don't leave FB and don't buy from the dude again. He probably deserves a neutral, but why risk getting a retail. neg in return over a couple of bucks?

goose3

<< <i>I think this is where the new rating system comes in handy, you got the card undamaged so you shouldn't really leave him a neg., but you can sure rate his shipping charges with a 1 star, I find myself doing this more and more. >>



excellent point.