OT/ I hate magic tape, and cards in contact with tape

[Dustanh1]

Team bags are where it's at. Tape never comes in contact with the card.

[Buythatcard]

Frank,

That looks like a card I might have shipped to you. I understand your frustration. I have shipped thousands of cards with magic tape with no complaints. I have also use the regular tape in which a buyer complained it was too hard to get off. I've had buyers complain that they don't want any tape as well as buyers suggest I use tape.

I am open to all suggestions but it's impossible to please 100% of my customers. I try.

Inverting the sleeve is a great suggestion and I will start shipping my cards in that manner. I got so use to putting the card in upright that it never dawned upon me to invert it.

I don't take these complaints as insults, I take them as a learning experience.

I'd like to hear other suggestions as well.

Thank You.

[autograf]

195% agree with Dustan.............team bags ROCK......especially for a single card or the graded card bags will work too.......little piece of cardboard, toploader or semirigid and a team or graded card bag. Might be a couple pennies more but you won't have the damage.

[FrankWakefield]

Hello Howard,

I didn't put in that post that I got the card from BuyThatCard...


Regular tape can be a bit of a pain, but not as much as magic tape. Most of the time when I use regular tape I fold a fraction of an inch of the end of the tape over on itself, that creates a tab of sorts that makes reomoval of the tape easy. It does take a moment to do that, not a big deal for me as few cards as I sell.

I've left all 5's in the feedback for the seller of that card. My goal wasn't to rant about the seller, it was to get folks to rethink (and for some, to think in the first place0 about their packaging.


I'm a bit of a bibliophile. Sometimes when I'd get a package in the mail, years ago when my kids were young, they'd gather around to watch me open the package. They always hoped it was a book because most of the antiquarian book dealers would wrap the book in paper, then tie it off with string, like a wrapped gift. Sometimes I get something from an old card guy who uses string or rubberbands...

[Leon]

I got that R315 stip of 5 last week and it was stuck to some of the PO Box tape....it damaged the card quite a bit as I was pulling it off of it. I mean chuncks of the border were left on the tape. It really sucked bad. I won't give the selller any bad marks, as I could tell they tried to package it very, very carefully....they just failed miserably. I thought quite a bit about dinging them but I could tell they spent a lot of time trying to do it right, so I won't. I will email them and let them know what happened so they can do something different next time.
To everyone- please be careful where any tape is concerned. Personally I use a penny sleeve and toploader, with some kind of stiff packing to ship raw cards. On graded ones I just make sure it's packed well..I very rarely use any tape except on the outside of the whole package..regards

[E93]

Frank,
You could avoid that problem by sticking to graded cards.
JimB

[Buythatcard]

Frank,

I know that you didn't mention the seller's name. But it does look like my packaging. I didn't take it personally. I took it as constructive criticism.

Maybe, we can all get together and patent a type of sealer for these card holders. Some kind of thin clasp which is easily removed.

We can make enough money from this product and not worry about selling cards anymore. We can just buy them.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Dustanh1

Team bags are where it's at. Tape never comes in contact with the card.

That's what I do. I always use those resealable graded card bags. Even if the card is in a top loader you can still use them and the adhesive won't be anywhere near the card.

[Jewish-collector]

Why not just put the card in an envelope raw with no sleave & no top loader. Let see if there's any damage when it arrives to its destination.

[slantycouch]

I've found, when using the T-card top loaders, that the best thing to do is... tcard in mini sleeve, sleeve in top loader, top loader in team bag sideways. Wrap around once and seal team bag on the back. They fit perfectly and prevent any movement.

[JasonL]

Originally Posted by Jewish-collector

Why not just put the card in an envelope raw with no sleave & no top loader. Let see if there's any damage when it arrives to its destination.

Alan,
you're on the right track. That is what I do, but just to protect it, since it is a raw card after all, - I wrap the raw card itself with one layer of magic tape, all the way around, just to make sure it's covered and sturdier in the envelope!

[Anthony S.]

I find those tiny T card top loaders to be a complete pain in ascot. I didn't grow up to have normal sized hands just so I could try to get a card in and out of one of those damn things.

[jrhatchjr]

Originally Posted by Jewish-collector

Why not just put the card in an envelope raw with no sleave & no top loader. Let see if there's any damage when it arrives to its destination.

I had this happen to me many years ago. Made a trade for an E105 Mello Mint and the card came in a business sized envelope and nothing else. No top loader, no penny sleeve, not even a piece of paper to wrap it in. I think it came through OK...

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To respond to the original post: tape does come in handy. I find glue to be just too messy and I can never get a real good alignment using staples

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