Seller put trash in the box for my figure I bought from him - would you find this acceptable?

[suziestoyshop]

I have already contacted the seller and left feedback, I am just curious what the community thinks of this. Personally, I am disgusted. He used two soda can cardboard bases, and two empty waterbottles (water still inside the bottles). He basically used and put trash inside the box. I think this is absolutey unacceptable, he thinks it's perfectly fine.

[lightlily_arts]

The one packing material I hate getting is shredded newspaper.  Only because it's messy when I'm unpacking the contents.  I go outside to my trash bin to unpack those boxes.  I would never complain or neg anyone who did it.   I just want my stuff to arrive safely so whatever works.

[nocoolnamejane]

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@lightlily_arts wrote:

The one packing material I hate getting is shredded newspaper.  Only because it's messy when I'm unpacking the contents.  I go outside to my trash bin to unpack those boxes.  I would never complain or neg anyone who did it.   I just want my stuff to arrive safely so whatever works.

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It’s been a while since I received one of those but I remember padded envelope which used what I can only described as resembling the stuff that comes out of my vacuum cleaner bin (and I’m a cat owner). Unless you only carefully cut open the flap, this mess of fibers and carp would spill out everywhere... those were the worst!

[green-night]

I wonder how people would feel about this eco-friendly recyclable used as packaging material.   All around the brand new baby bottles you might have just purchased.  A little paper still attached but otherwise clean.   Hey why not right?  

I'd say that if nothing else this thread shows that people are clearly not on the same page when it comes to this practice.  Why risk it sellers? 

[titanicbot]

Well for one, toilet paper and paper towel tubes are absolutely terrible padding because if you apply any pressure at all to the lengthwise part they collapse and become useless as protection. Same goes for newspaper, once it's compressed it does not decompress and provides zero protection.

[relaxintowealth]

Looks better than a package I got once,a breakable packed in a cereal box,and of course it was broken to bits.I think dry water bottles would be ok.

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

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@lightlily_arts wrote:

The estimated delivery date would be okay if it were accurate.  However, that estimated date is being determined by eBay, and when they get it wrong it's the seller who takes a hit.  eBay did that to me recently on an economy package that was traveling from California to Florida.    Economy packages to zone 7 are 7-10 days. The purchase was Saturday night on a 3 day Federal Holiday weekend so the earliest I could mail the package was Tuesday.  Yet ebay showed them an estimated delivery for Wednesday.  Economy shipping is not an overnight package.

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I have no issue with ebay proving an ETA if they wish but they should put back the handling time as well. If we are REQUIRED to enter it when listing then they should also be  required to SHOW it.

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

I often use wadded up plastic grocery bags as "filler" in the corners and have only once received a comment and that was from a buyer in Ca who said Thank you we can't get plastic bags at the grocery here anymore lol

[mycarolinavintage]

Those shopping bags actually do make great filler. 

[titanicbot]

They don't actually provide any protection, though. Plastic shopping bags, like newspaper, don't expand once compressed, so if any weight is put on the package(and trust me, your box will have plenty of weight on it from other boxes, machinery, someone stepping on it, etc) then it's going to crumple and your actual product will be the focal point of said pressure, likely resulting in damaged/broken goods.

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

They're already "wadded" to fill the corners. They're not expected to "expand".

SMH

[green-night]

Well for one, toilet paper and paper towel tubes are absolutely terrible padding because if you apply any pressure at all to the lengthwise part they collapse and become useless as protection.

Yeah, I would  say you are entirely missing the point. 

[titanicbot]

My actual reply to you was edited out by a mod for apparently being too antagonistic. Anyways, cleaned water bottles make excellent packing material and trying to compare them to dirty diapers or whatever is not making a good faith argument.

And if you plan on using a baby bottle straight out of the shipping box without washing it at LEAST once first, there's a bigger issue than the packing material.

[titanicbot]

My friend, the entire point of packing material is to cushion the item being shipped. Newspaper or squished plastic bags provide zero protection for your items. If you're using them to hold the real packing material in place, that's one thing, but as the actual packing material itself, it's no good. If it's put into any dangerous situation in transit like, say, a worker stepping on the package(which happens a LOT), bubblewrap or airbags or a water bottle may save the item from being crushed. Wadded up newspaper or plastic bags won't, they'll just immediately give in to the force against them.

Please don't "SMH" if you don't actually know what you're talking about. Thank you.

[lightlily_arts]

In the past year most cities adopted that nonsense about no longer giving away plastic grocery bags when we checked out with our items.  It was supposed to be for an environmental purpose and reduce waste. So now they charge you ten cents for each bag.  This is just another racket.  I  always reused  my grocery bags as liners for my bathroom waste cans.

[galfam]

I think using the bottles was a grreat idea for some really hard to pack items that I put off listing because of that. But I want to point out that reusing stuff is great but the real job is for us all to get the buyers to reuse recycle the packing that we send or we are just delaying that plastic from going to the trash.  I pack with lots of reused stuff and have got some new great ideas here Thanks for the post OP

Also I would worry more about the germs that you touch everyday at any store you shop at than from a water bottle with a lid that covers where a mouth might have touched it