Buyer purchased 1/31 and we're now at 2/20 and buyer has not received. Regardless, I started back up recently and opened a store, the whole 9 yards and decided to try this eBay Std Envelope (even after being skeptical). I went from charging for shipping back when I started and always using USPS First Class with bubble envelope, even on the cheaper cards but I only had a few that may have been lost or damaged. I just had my first ever refund request after 20 years selling sports cards on eBay (I'm still small-time though). Wow, I sure wish I would have searched this sooner. My last damaged card claim was in February, I ship 30-50 cards a day. Doing anything else with cards in this price range is just lighting money on fire. You don't need paperboard mailers and you don't need top loaders. Looking at your feedback you have obviously sold more cards than I have since you started ebay, however looking at your amount of recent feedback I do your average month on my average day. I'm happy, because it is still just over a buck instead of close to $3, eBay is happy because I am not castigating them weekly (actually, I don't think they care since their hires barely know what company they work for, let alone the actual policies), and the USPS is happy because they got to suck some extra money out of me. "special" tracking number, but I go into the post office with them and pay 39 cents each for the "non-machinable" rate. The trick is to print the label, providing you with the (minimal, something like 4 cents) discount and eBay's. I still use the mailers, and even use top loaders. You have free insurance already, you only need to do the bare minimum I outlined and your damage claims will round down to months of headaches, I have finally found a solution to eBay's insistence that their cardboard mailers qualify for the ebay standard rate, and the USPS insistence that they are too rigid. Never add cardboard and do not use cardboard or paperboard mailers. Top loaders cost way more per order and have way more problems. The gaming sleeves and bulk cards are only going to cost you about 3-4 cents per order in supplies and you can use regular envelopes, I usually get a huge box of them from Costco or similar. Second, a stack of these envelopes will sit flat and not get on the nerves of any postal employees making up their own rules. You tape off center alternating sides for two reasons, first the envelope can be bent in half with no damage. Take that card the customer bought and slap a sports card on either side of it (make it 2 cards on either side if using magic cards instead of sports cards), and slip that inside a gaming sleeve, then tape the gaming sleeve off center inside the envelope with double sided tape. These are the kind of sleeves people use to protect their magic or pokemon cards while playing, not the soft sleeves people put sports cards in. Get yourself some packs of gaming sleeves, the cheaper the better. Sports cards are better because they have square corners, you can't protect sports cards with gaming cards because gaming cards have round corners. I use either bulk magic the gathering cards or bulk sports cards, both available for nearly free in large numbers (expect to pay $3-5 per thousand). Envelopes with top loaders vanish, show up empty or get redirected, delayed, or show up postage due far too often. I would have spent $900 on toploaders last year and I only had about $30 in damage claims and the ebay insurance paid out on all of them. I have shipped many, many thousands of these and here is what I do and my success rate is massive.ĭon't use toploaders at all.
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