Why do sellers think "use a hard tube' means "use a very, very soft tube"???

[Chop-Top]

I'm literally about to give up collecting because I can't seem to get shit shipped to me correctly. Is it just me, or are sellers getting worse over time!?!?

[Bruce]

Just tell them to use a "Bruce" tube. Everyone knows what those are!

Bruce

[Cj]

Some sellers are extremely cheap to buy decent tubes and inexperienced in shipping. They think that if they write the word "Fragile" on the tube 5 times that it makes the tube/poster invincible to any damage. 

Cj

[Chop-Top]

Bruce, the poster I'm referring to was a $100 sports poster, so you're name wouldn't help in this scenario!

[erik1925]

A great many sellers don't care or don't put a lot of thought into packaging. They see their poster or other item as simply something to sell and make some $$ on, using whatever is handy or cheap to wrap it in. With a little thought, tho, you would think the light would go on...

[Cj]

You know the best was when a seller used a the plastic deli bag that either ham or turkey lunch meat (cant recall what meat it was) came in from the meat counter at a grocery store. He/she used it as cushioning to protect the ends of the poster. it still had the deli sticker on it.

[Ari]

I remember the guy who taped together toilet paper rolls (minus paper) to post in. COOL! bed

[AdamCarterJones]

I remember the guy who taped together toilet paper rolls (minus paper) to post in. COOL!

Noooooooo!!
You serious, Ari!?
That's so bad!

[Ari]

haha and he was from England too!

[ddilts399]

My friend in Japan got some stuff for me, they came shipped with the posters rolled together and the postage stuck on to the outer poster. Who needs packaging!

[AdamCarterJones]

My friend in Japan got some stuff for me, they came shipped with the posters rolled together and the postage stuck on to the outer poster. Who needs packaging!

This keeps getting better!
And I thought I'd been subject to some bad packaging!

[Ari]

Not AS bad, but I had an original release Fantasia Daybill posted in a plain brown envelope, no cardboard or anything, was then rolled up and stuffed in my letterbox. LUCKY it survived AOK.

[AdamCarterJones]

Not AS bad, but I had an original release Fantasia Daybill posted in a plain brown envelope, no cardboard or anything, was then rolled up and stuffed in my letterbox. LUCKY it survived AOK.

Ah, Ari!
I would have been mortified!
Glad it was OK!

[CSM]

At least it wasn't used toilet paper!

[MoviePosterBid.com]

the Bob Dylan "Dont Look Back" window I sold a few weeks back was initially an ebay buy.
There were no creases when I won it

then the schmuck sent it to me in a padded envelope and it wound up like this:

http://www.movieposterbid.com/itemdetl.asp?id=73141

[brude]

then the schmuck sent it to me in a padded envelope and it wound up like this:

"Schmuck" is the perfect label for schmucks who do that. 

[CSM]

the Bob Dylan "Dont Look Back" window I sold a few weeks back was initially an ebay buy.
There were no creases when I won it

then the schmuck sent it to me in a padded envelope and it wound up like this:

http://www.movieposterbid.com/itemdetl.asp?id=73141

Yikes - but you still got $250 out of it from Mr. Brooks

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Yikes - but you still got $250 out of it from Mr. Brooks

can you imagine what I would have gotten if it arrived in it's previous condition?