The worst packaging job EVER.
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I just received an Ebay purchase of a PCGS coin where the seller put the slab in a basic white letter envelope (no padding or anything around the coin), put 3 Forever stamps on the envelope and mailed it. Somehow I received it and the slab isn't damaged. Seriously, it's not possible to package a PCGS coin worse than this. Fortunately it was a $13 Ebay purchase and no real loss if it did get damaged and I would have to return it with the seller paying for postage.
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Rather, I just put a stamp on the slab.
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I've wanted to do the same. Get a $25 coin, sell it to someone for half price, then I get to pay postage because shipping is free. But I didn't.
Rather, I just put a stamp on the slab.
Just use a permanent marker to put the address on the slab, and you're good to go.
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Actually years ago I had a board member held in high regard here on the boards do the same thing and with a much more valuable coin. So I guess I feel your pain. No matter the value, this should not happen. I say this and now the big ebay sellers might come in and "justify" it's OK, and brow beat me down.
The coin took a full week to get to me, so God only knows what kind of abuse the USPS subjected it to.
The coin is SLIGHTLY rotated in the slab (not very noticeable---maybe 1/8th of an inch) and I am sure that it happened during shipping.
I was tempted to email the seller to tell him but after reading his feedback; I determined that he'd likely not even care and that I was lucky to have received it, at all, and with no chips or cracks to the slab.
I did leave him positive feedback, b/c I really like the coin and he shipped it the day after I purchased it (not his fault that the USPS took a full week to deliver).
Packing was terrible, though.
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How is this the "worse packaging job ever!"?
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They don't slide around like that.
So the OP's coin arrived pristine- in the same condition (slab and coin) had it been sent padded and boxed and then padded and boxed again.
How is this the "worse packaging job ever!"?
Because anyone with a brain would know that packaging a coin like that would significantly increase the chances of damage or theft. Seriously, would you want to receive a coin packaged like that? Me, I'd rather a seller take a little care in packaging what I purchase.
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seeing an au early dollar pcgs in a white envelope will be a hard one to beat.
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It could have been worse, had he only put 2 forever stamps on it
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Mailing a slab as a small package weighs 3 oz and costs $2.45 in postage. Three forever stamps only comes to $1.47 in today's postage. Because the slab was in the envelope, it wouldn't qualify for the letter postage rate as it's not flat and is rigid where the slab is. So I was a little surprised it didn't get returned to the seller or I didn't get a postage due notice in my mailbox.
Besides this badly packaged coin yesterday, I also found in my mailbox a summons for jury duty in August. What a wonderful day at the mailbox!!!
people will cut corners to save a buck and packaging is the first thing to be cut down on
The customer has a very low Ebay feedback rating. I wrote the seller and explained the advantages of using a bubble mailer and using the Ebay label with tracking included. The person wrote me back to thank me for the help and explained that she was brand new on Ebay.
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Magically it made it to me with no damage from the counting machines at the PO and now sits in a pcgs 66 holder
Check out Stork's thread on the dark-side.
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Above $40 I spend the $2.45 and ship in a bubble envelope. I try to not sell coins in slabs under $40.
I've heard a couple of stories from friends of mine who worked at another grading company. They once received a box containing loose coins- no holders or another packaging; the coins were just rattling around in the box. Another time, they received what looked like a roll of duct tape. The sender had laid out a piece of tape, stuck each of the coins to it, then rolled it up and shipped it.
Thank you.
Now that is the "worst packaging job EVER".
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