How do you like your cards packed?

[Doug]

All of the stuff I sell is already in a graded slab so on lower priced cards I usually just go with the trusty bubble envelope. If it's a more expensive card I ship it in a priority mail box filled with styrofoam peanuts. This might be OCD on my part, but no matter the value, I always give the slab a good polishing with Novus #2 and put it in a resealable BCW graded card bag. As a buyer, nothing is more irritating than getting a graded card in a scratched to hell slab.

[martyogelvie]

I only have a single pet peeve.. excessive TAPE.
Nothing irks me more than having to use a knife or scissors to extract a card from its packaging.

[David W]

Originally Posted by martyogelvie

I only have a single pet peeve.. excessive TAPE.
Nothing irks me more than having to use a knife or scissors to extract a card from its packaging.

ditto.

Nothing worse than spending 5 minutes cutting/peeling tape to get to the card.

Also, with free shipping becoming more common, I've gotten cards just stuck in a plain white envelope and mailed for 44 cents.

[novakjr]

One time a while back I bought a pretty nice NM '56 Topps Football Elroy Hirsch. In the auction it was pictured in a toploader. When the card arrived in the mail, it had been removed from said toploader and place between two pieces of cardboard that had been cut from Coca-Cola 12 packs(we all know how flimsy those are), and mailed in a simple white envelope. I'll tell ya, I wasn't too happy because sometime during the mail process the damn thing got folded in half. I can say so definitively because the Coke box pieces had the exact same fold. Seller gave me full refund, told me to keep the card and supposedly bitched out his wife(who supposedly packed it). Maybe she thought she was saving him money so he could re-use them? Who knows?

Also, excessive tape drives me f'ing nuts...I've gotten 'em where the cardboard pieces were practically laminated in tape, and so was the bubble mailer. And the tape on top of the toploaders are a big pet peeve of mine. Had one card that slid up into the tape somehow on a semi-rigid holder, and lost a small chunk of the top border once.. Aaarghhhh!!!!

[brianp-beme]

Multiple years back I had numerous ebay transactions from a seller who wrapped the raw cards in a paper towel and and sent them in a regular white envelope. All came to me in fine shape.

Brian

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Multiple years back I had numerous ebay transactions from a seller who wrapped the raw cards in a paper towel and and sent them in a regular white envelope. All came to me in fine shape.

Brian

Almost forgot about them. I bought a couple of cards from them...All were somehow fine.