Shipping fails

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by bnorth

……. your card arrived as expected…

The card arrived undamaged. It did not arrive as expected. I expect a company conducting sports memorabilia auctions to do better when shipping a 70-year-old, Hall of Famer card, or any card for that matter. One piece of tape closing a foam board book isn’t good enough. I am grateful that the card didn’t slip around either untaped side and that’s probably due to them closing the foam board so tightly and taping it that it couldn’t move but it is still substandard in this day and age.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

The card arrived undamaged. It did not arrive as expected. I expect a company conducting sports memorabilia auctions to do better when shipping a 70-year-old, Hall of Famer card, or any card for that matter. One piece of tape closing a foam board book isn’t good enough. I am grateful that the card didn’t slip around either untaped side and that’s probably due to them closing the foam board so tightly and taping it that it couldn’t move but it is still substandard in this day and age.

OK, so the shipping method enraged you so much you had to share it with us. I get it, sometimes odd stuff to others makes me upset. Can we at least know who the offender is?

[ClementeFanOh]

Ben North- at no point did Vintage Deputy display "rage"; in fact, you are the
one who seems most amped up at this point. It doesn't matter that his card
was surprisingly undamaged. If someone fails to douse a camp fire in a
wooded area and there's not a fire spread, it was still unwise, risky, and
dangerous move. Vintage's point is still correct and it isn't complicated.

Trent King

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ClementeFanOh

Ben North- at no point did Vintage Deputy display "rage"; in fact, you are the
one who seems most amped up at this point. It doesn't matter that his card
was surprisingly undamaged. If someone fails to douse a camp fire in a
wooded area and there's not a fire spread, it was still unwise, risky, and
dangerous move. Vintage's point is still correct and it isn't complicated.

Trent King

Trent, I find my posts as silly as the OPs to be honest. He is complaining about an item that arrived without damage. I am posting because I honestly can't imagine complaining about a card that arrived undamaged. Neither make sense.

Still makes zero sense the OP has not mentioned who this horrible seller is after taking the time and energy to tell us all about it.

[AMPduppp]

I don't think it's entirely fair to say someone shouldn't complain about packaging just because it arrived safely. We all know the level of care (or lack thereof) exercised by USPS; a poorly packaged card magically arriving safely shouldn't mean that you're not allowed to take issue with it.

Case in point, I purchased a Walt Frazier rookie several years ago that arrived in a bubble mailer wrapped loosely in a single tissue. Somehow it had no additional damage, but I absolutely let the seller know that his packaging was opening him up to liability when a card is inevitably creased, dinged, or wrecked thanks to his carelessness.

[perezfan]

For those of us who take the time to "overpackage", double-box, and meticulously protect the collectibles we sell... yes it is infuriating that many sellers put no effort into protecting your purchases. I can't even count the number of pieces I've purchased that have survived beautifully for over a century, only to become compromised by a lazy, lousy or clueless seller.

I've had to resort to giving step-by-step packing instructions to the seller in the comments section on eBay's checkout page. Yet many of these people completely disregard the instructions... I guess they can't foresee the time, hassle and expense of taking returns. Funny how they complain, ignore you and/or get pissy when the damaged item comes back to them because of their own negligence.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Funny how they complain, ignore you and/or get pissy when the damaged item comes back to them because of their own negligence.

And it's a lose-lose situation of their own creation. Nobody ends up happy.

Especially with small flats such as a small order of cards, the cost is measured more in time than money for packaging. Cardboard is free if you keep some on hand, and it's literally two cents' worth of tape to seal up the sandwich. OK, a bubble mailer might cost you into the double digit cents, lol. If you're a real cheapskate, you can just open the ones you receive from Amazon really carefully and recycle them. Wow, free bubble mailer! This is all said simply to stress that there is zero excuse for shipping improperly. None.

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Trent, I find my posts as silly as the OPs to be honest. He is complaining about an item that arrived without damage. I am posting because I honestly can't imagine complaining about a card that arrived undamaged. Neither make sense.

Still makes zero sense the OP has not mentioned who this horrible seller is after taking the time and energy to tell us all about it.

I agree on the last point. Having that information would help determine if I want to deal with the seller or not in the future.