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Worst Ebay packaging....

DepressionscripGuyDepressionscripGuy Posts: 369 ✭✭✭
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So I got a package and it was really put through the ringer. It's a bubble wrap envelope but as soon as I touched it, it felt flat as flat can be. No bubble wrap insert left. So as soon as I pulled this out, several things came to mind...



1 - Package is in a very sorry state and why is there duct tape on one end?

2 - Looks like it has a weird shipping label - maybe one of those sorry but here's your package from the USPS...

3 - Whatever treasure I bought is done for...

4 - Now I have to go online, go to Ebay / Paypal, file a claim for damaged merchandise and send a carefully worded email to the seller with pics....

5 - This sucks....



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So after stewing about it and I have to get it over with, I opened it to see what treasure was destroyed...



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Despite the hundreds of creases and folds in the package, not a single mark on the book. NO creases, No marks, No bends, nothing.... For once a happy ending... So now the question is who thought using this envelope was a good idea? Strange things....



So what other weird packages have people received? Post a pic if you can...

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Comments

  • MaxcrushaMaxcrusha Posts: 628 ✭
    Lucky! Good that it was ok
  • larry510larry510 Posts: 566 ✭✭
    Oh I have received many parcels that were beat up, had no or little protection and have had a number of pmg notes bent up. Seller's need to learn one golden rule: Never leave it in the hands of the Post Office. Because they don't care and won't be careful.
  • CurrenSeeCurrenSee Posts: 85 ✭✭
    I had one note show up in a bubble mailer with just the note thrown in it. No plastic sleeve, no cardboard, just the note. Somehow it was undamaged.
  • synchrsynchr Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: CurrenSee
    I had one note show up in a bubble mailer with just the note thrown in it. No plastic sleeve, no cardboard, just the note. Somehow it was undamaged.


    Yes, like a coin guy who doesn't know currency so packs it like a coin...



    ...although there are some currency dealers here who don't pack currency with any support
  • Lews TwosLews Twos Posts: 18
    The WORST was getting the California Blackout note in JUST AN ENVELOPE with a stamp & the envelope was damn near see through... A 5 figure UNIQUE STAR test note....
    Buying, Selling & collecting for over 30 Years!

    I only COLLECT $2.00 FANCY #s but errors, fancy numbers, uncut sheets & autographed currency are my areas of expertise. Always glad to help when I can!
  • Jim61Jim61 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭
    Yes, too many times!!!!


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  • notehunter494notehunter494 Posts: 42 ✭
    I have had many nightmares in my 16+ years on eBay. One that comes to mind was a rare low print modern day star note, well packed in a legal envelope with a good piece of cardboard. Problem, the cardboard was not a nice rectangle but the ends were angled like a trapezoid or parallelogram. What must have happened is those wheels that shoot the mail from one place to another in the shipping assembly line jammed the edge of the angled cardboard in such a way that the wheel just burned right through the envelope to the other side. They did deliver though. I remember my postal guy just threw it through the window and could not run out of the vestibule fast enough.



    Lately I have been taking a short video of suspect packages just in case, especially returns.
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