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Originally Posted by sbfinley
This is 100% on the seller. It doesn't matter if it ripped in Pete's hands. If you purchase something of value you have to be able to assume that if you open it in a reasonable manner you won't damage it. Ripping an envelope is a reasonable way to open an envelope. As a matter of fact, unless new envelopes are also transformers, it is the only way. If the card is in a toploader or cs1 it's fine, if it's between cardboard it would have been fine. Pete ripped an envelope, because envelopes have three purposes:
1) Put something in envelope.
2) Close envelope.
3) Open envelope.
They way I have been taught the steps is:
1) Insert item or document with hands.
2) Sealed with adhesive (primarily with hands.)
3) Opened with hands or sharp object.
I'm sorry it saddens you that this is the only way I've been taught to interact with envelopes.
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I usually have some inkling that there might be a card within regardless of the packaging.
So if the card was packed in a block of ice, I might choose to let the ice melt, rather than use an ice pick or sledge hammer.
If the card was distributed in boxes of cereal, I might choose to pour the cereal out of box until I could see and easily remove the card, rather than dive into the box with my grimy paw to search and destroy.
Or if the card was contained in one of those molded hard plastic packages that are difficult to open by any technique, I might choose not to open it at all.
And if I received 100 envelopes that day and knew there was a card in only one, I would look at the return addresses to determine which envelopes could safely opened by the "grip it and rip it" methodology, if that was the only way I had been taught to interact with an envelope.
