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

[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.

[jcmtiger]

I hear you Frank, but sellers get paranoid because of buyers concerns about a card being damaged in the mail. I know I do and I am guilty of using to much tape and cardboard just for safety of the card I am mailing.

Joe

[mintacular]

Inversion method is unneeded if you just avoid tape all together. Sleeve, top loader, and team bag--which can wrap tightly over the top loader to prevent any movement. The team bag seal unpeels very easily and it looks cleaner/more professional than ANY tape method.

The team bag also fits (5) cards & seals the tops for ALL of them, saving you the hassle of taping all five toploaders. Tape also is hard to remove fully from a toploader and it makes them appear more "used" so future use of them more unlikely.