Worst type of eBay "guy"

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Yeah, I never understood that. 1/4" inch isn't that much. between a couple pieces of cardboard and the surrounding packaging and you have yourself an easy 1/4" inch. Anyways, I think if you go deep enough into the handbook, you find an "or"..................as in 1/4" inch.........or........the package is a rigid.

Been shipping that way with tracking for over 20 years without an issue. 1000's of packages.

Well.............maybe one. Over 10 years ago, I think an overzealous clerk sent a package back to me with that 1/4" inch notation, from around the Philadelphia area. Went and dug up in the handbook the full definition of the dimensions of package tracking for 1st Class Mail, brought it back to my branch office, and they just threw it back in the system and it eventually got where it was going.

We have a lady that sometimes fills in at our PO. She thinks it is her duty to try and fold your bubble mailer in half.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by bnorth

We have a lady that sometimes fills in at our PO. She thinks it is her duty to try and fold your bubble mailer in half.

Sellers should keep an image of that person in mind when packaging things for shipment. If they did, far fewer items would arrive damaged.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by bnorth

We have a lady that sometimes fills in at our PO. She thinks it is her duty to try and fold your bubble mailer in half.

Originally Posted by Eric72

Sellers should keep an image of that person in mind when packaging things for shipment. If they did, far fewer items would arrive damaged.

Newman....

[Frankish]

These are excellent. So many hit home!

One that really peeves me is people who secure a top loader to the inner surface of the shipping envelope so that you have to cut the envelope open on three sides to extract the card without risking it.

[D. Bergin]

I got a card in from the U.K. the other day. Card was fine, but I needed a literal scalpel to get the card out of the top loader-ish plastic it was in, it was covered in so much heavy duty tape.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Buyers who ask for healthy discounts because they have to pay to have the item authenticated and shipped to the TPA. So, you expect me to foot all these costs?! It's your choice to have the material authenticated, not mine. I know what I'm selling is genuine and don't require a TPA to say it is. (In most cases, the material in question doesn't magically become worth more just because of the slab it's in or the sticker that's slapped on it.)

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by BillyCox3

...In most cases, the material in question doesn't magically become worth more just because of the slab it's in...

The market, in general, disagrees with this statement.

The "magic" can be quite dark and evil, though, in my opinion.