Card shipped in toploader and heavy bubble wrap but no sleev

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Bought a buy it now card I loved- seller didn’t reply for two days and shipped the card before reading my messages specifying how to ship (I’ve had sellers ship cards poorly, so I always message how I like the card to be sent to avoid issues).

Anyway, he didn’t look at my messages till after shipping. Really mad! He shipped it in no sleeve, but in a toploader. He said he bubble wrapped it a lot and put it in a bubble mailer.

At least he didn’t just throw it in a white envelope like other awful sellers have done to me in the past (that since then made me be so crazy making sure I instruct how to ship), but I’m still super worried it might move around in the toploader? ;( I hope the bubble wrap makes it stay put more ?

Should I be worried? Or will the toploader being heavily bubble wrapped avoid card movement?

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top loader + bubble wrap + bubble mailer is more than enough for like 90% of cards, and even a top loader in a pwe is fine for a heck of a lot. How much is the card worth-ish?

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It will most likely be fine. If it ends up getting damaged in transit you can always get your money back. No need to stress about it.

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Idk about anyone else but I’m unreasonably annoyed when people tell me how to ship cards. Give the benefit of the doubt to your sellers and provide negative feedback if something bad happens.

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Putting a card in a toploader without a penny sleeve is inexcusable

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Secretly sliding it in without using protection in this day and age is a crime. I hope you’re not in Texas.

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Oh, yeah. I thought that went without saying. I’ve even had some cheap cards ship in only a sleeve and pwe and arrive okay

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unreasonably annoyed

Most of the time, buyers aren’t outright ordering you to package parcels certain ways. They’re more than likely just worried about a card being shipped without and protection. Seems like a totally valid worry, especially on higher valued cards.

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:open_mouth:

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lol no it’s just paranoia manifesting as controlling behavior

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Tell that to the idiots shipping 4 figure slabs across the globe in PWE’s with one round of bubblewrap.

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i do - with negative feedback lol

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Which is fine, but the negative feedback takes, what, 10 seconds to make?

Waiting for a PWE with a cracked slab inside of it to arrive from the other side of the planet with the Tony Montana boat can take months, and then you have to deal with Paypal bureaucracy once the sellers inevitably ghost you. If you’ve been through something like that, you may give unknown sellers a heads up about expecting proper packaging, regardless of the sellers wounded pride.

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Eh, I don’t doubt that there are a lot of buyers like that. There definitely are those that have had bad experiences and just bring it up as a reminder. I think delivery/tone matters.

Also, nice profile picture :sunglasses:

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