Are you kidding me? Disgusting.
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I just had the most nasty package arrive. A coin was placed in 3 boxes. Outer box was priority mail box. Middle was a soap box. Inner was a CONDOM BOX. Who ships like that?!?
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Probably someone who is pretty clean...
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Better safe than sorry....
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at its best I guess.....could have been worse.
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I'm all for reusing boxes (soap box was fine!). But you know what you are doing and touching when you get a condom out. It turns out this is a coin I sold a year or two ago to the guy, and re-bought it with a different buying account. Wonder if he used that one on purpose if he recognized my name.
Sounds like protection is very important to him. I mean, the triple box and all...
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Good thing another box didn't follow the condom box.
Seller protection?
Overkill; If the objective is safe travels and prophylaxis against unwanted loss or thefts.
Gross.
Some people have no couth.
I guess he is combining synergy from another hobby to his coin hobby.
I would send that one into PCGS Secure, so the sniffer can make sure that it hasn't been altered with any 'foreign material'. Gross.
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This coin would be an exception to my don't clean coins rule.
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If it was raw dirty old gold the packaging is appropriate
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That's really weird.
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Sort of redefines bubble wrap.
There is a "Gold Coin" brand of condom.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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Sounds like he just wanted to practice safe shipping.
The funniest box I received a shipment in was a Breast Pump Box!
Now we know how you store your coins Mark! Do they tone in those holders?
Sorry,
next time I'll use a tampax box.
People used to worry about money transmitting disease...that's certainly one approach.
I'd rather have a condom box, than the folks who use 16 feet of tape to wrap a raw coin in a small piece of bubble wrap. You then spend the next 20 minute trying to extract it with a razor blade, carefully.
Maybe the sender got the boxes out of a recycling bin.
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at least it came.
Did you make Laura mad?
Unorthodox packaging to be sure, but I am fairly confident your coin(s) arrived clean, and sans STD.
Just tell me it wasn't a silver eagle with milk spots....
The strangest packaging I've had is cut up cereal boxes for protection.
If I got the package you did I would boil the coin....
The first two I could live with. The third would be one I would have to use "extreme caution when handling. Hopefully your coin is the only thing inside the third. Never thought coin collecting would entail this sort of danger or risk.
It is a gold Indian, too. Those things are known for carrying disease! lol
That is really wierd
I'm sure it slid right out of the box.
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LOL! He's slipping people more than just coins!!
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Just having "safe" coins I guess.
Put it under a black light.
I admit, if I got like 1000 empty condom boxes, they'd become my box of choice for shipping...
Sounds like it was an easy delivery, however unexpected it was.
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Most stupid packaging I've seen has been a model car shipped to my sig. other's father inside of 2 taped together 12 pack of soda boxes...
How big was the coin? did he have to use a magnum box?
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$2 1/2 Indian, and it barely fit. haha
Have you decided how you're gonna mount it? Or just keep it raw?
LOL. So did the mailman. It's a party all around.
Maybe an allegory for ZPG.
at least he had everything covered. fwiw
Doesn't sound like you got screwed on the deal.
What a dick.
It is actually the soap box that posed the greatest risk of damage to your coin due to residual molecules of the soap product. Be grateful that there was one more barrier between it and your coin. Hyper sensitive individuals cannot even walk down a soap aisle in a supermarket without their respiratory systems reacting to the "gassing" of chemicals from the soap products.