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ā¦ You send that to someone you hate.
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A single unsleeved card, in a 4"x4"x4" box, with no padding.
The card? A Gold Star Rayquaza.
Still graded a 9, but suffered some obvious wear on the corners. What could have beenā¦
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This is pretty genius lolā¦ You could definitely fit a solid 10-15 sleeved cards in there wouldnāt you say? @pichufan
No picture, but I had a LC zard shipped in the paper insert loose in a CD case once.
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I ordered a VS series binder set about two months ago. It was in an O-ring binder in the eBay photos so I was concerned about creases from the rings. After confirming the condition was good, I asked him to ship not in the binder so the O-ring wouldnāt damage anything during shipment.
Well the poor guy had clearly never packaged cards before. He tried so hard to protect them he ended up doing a terrible job. To secure the binder pages he had removed from the binder, he stacked them together and then taped around the edges to make all the pages stay together. Then he put that in bubble wrap and then also bubble wrapped the empty binder on top (it was a $2 classroom style binder). Naturally, some of the cards slipped out of the binder pages during shipment and actually got caught on the tape wall perimeter sticky side. I was able to carefully remove them and somehow nothing was damaged. The cards were all back-to-back and stuck together after sitting in a binder 15 years. A few random ones were sleeved. A miracle it survived!
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Not gunna bend that bad boy
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We need a āThis is how is was packaged to meā bingo card. So far I personally have had: Energy cards taped together as sleeves, Magnum ice cream box, large packet full of loose free floating cards, and 3 ring binder pages folded up and taped on all sides. I really just hope I never get the Pokeāraft though.
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Saw this on an Aussie group today 
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Iāve received some very poor packaging jobs. I try to forget.
Sorry no photos as Iām on my phone, but just a few of many:
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Four EX-NM+ 1st ed. Charizards inside a paper mailing envelope (No padding or sleeves). They arrived with scratches but no severe damage, thankfully.
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In another case, a complete 1st ed. base set shipped in a small priority mail box, loose and with no sleeves or padding.
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1st ed. Typhlosion (pack fresh) was bent in half during shipping (Iāve posted that one before I believe).
And every other poor packing jobs you can possibly think of 
āPlease ship carefullyā seems be a ātriggerā phrase for me.
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I am getting some serious anxiety reading this thread. Holy cow.
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no sleeve folded inside a piece of paper in a standard mailing envelope
granted they did list it as moderate play for $30 on eBay so I still got a steal. (though id def call this closer to hp now)
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1st ed Neo Lugia loose in a very large non padded/non cardboard envelop. Card was BEAUTIFUL, best condition lugia I had ever seen with no print lines or whitening.
Creased due to packaging. Granted this was back when it was $70 raw, but still need and needed it for my collection. 100% sure would have been a 10.
Getting steals from new sellers is great, but with that comes the inability to ship correctly sometimes.
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Ugh. Thatās the worst. Have had that happen to me as well. When the cardboard bends it will definitely crease the card.
For some reason Iāve had an increase of people sending me mint cards just loose in an envelope with no protection at all. Needless to say they receive an earful.
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Someone from Japan did not want my cards to get bent in the envelope, so they shipped them together with this beautiful piece of wood 
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That is intense. Curious what cards are we talking about that got the piece of wood mailing option?
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