@funkyfreshmike.2013 wrote:
I buy a lot of cards off this platform. Lately more and more cards are shipping untracked, poorly packaged, and incredibly slow. If a $3.00 sale is too much work, don't sell it.
As a seller here, I understand the hassle of selling low-cost items. Sellers are willing to ship a card in a PWE with little protection but then refund when the card arrives damaged? Take a few seconds and ship it properly and keep the money!
Shipping untracked opens a whole other can of worms. I want to be able to track something to see it's progress. I recently bought 8 cards - the seller sent 4 cards with tracking and 4 untracked. I never received the untracked cards. Why????
8 cards is ok to ship in one envelope, considering i received 15 cards in one envelope before.
My other account is a card specialist account.
I do not use top loaders. It is a business decision. Top loaders add about a 10 cent expense to every single order and make the order much more likely to have an exception of some sort (vanish, show up postage due, or show up as an empty envelope).
I use the various supplies you end up getting for free when buying collections to ship cards with. Normally I stick a baseball card on either side of the purchased card and slide those into a gaming sleeve (if you buy gaming related collections you will get these for free, otherwise they can be had for 2 cents instead of 10). And tape that off-center inside the envelope.
I sell about 10 cards a day and can go 6 months without having a damage claim, and 90 percent of the damage claims I have ever had have been false claims from Pokemon buyers who expected to order a lightly played card but get a Gem Mint one (pokemon is like 10 percent of my card sales but almost all of my claims).
The insurance has paid out on every damage claim I ever made. Although that is down to 2 or 3 of them a year now.
Contrast to using top loaders. Right out the door I would spend an extra $365 a year on supplies. That extra expense nets me nothing at all. In fact it causes me to have a much higher number of claims. I tested with top loaders until I ran out of them when I first started selling cards. About 1 in 200 never showed up in tracking (shredded in the sort machine before the first scan), and another 1 in 200 or were showing up empty envelope, postage due or being rerouted back to my house for insufficient postage (postage due and insufficient postage comes from individual USPS employees deciding the envelope is too stiff and should be either a package or hand cancel).
When cards were my absolute focus top loaders were also much more expensive due to pandemic shortages and I was doing higher volume so I would have literally been spending $3000-$4000 a year on top loaders for no reason.
