Ebay....The New "Buyer Beware"!

Up-date: just back from the post office where I asked for a price to send the latest comics -I backed and taped down with borns in a good solid envelope placed inside a jiffy bag -£3.75.
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Please note that both packages mentioned are from the SAME dealer.

As a comic collector who is sick and tired of getting awful packages from Ebay sellers, I have already reported on one totally inadequately protected package.

Now another. The seller, mergleb, charged £4.35 for the postage.  The actual cost of the posting was £2.00 -its there on the stamp. Two thick pieces of card even would not have cost over the £4.35.

This is how the package arrived.

Here is the back of the package.

I only touch the paper and it started falling apart and revealing the Morrison's carrier bag taped up. Very flimsy carrier at that.

"There is a torn cover that's been sellotaped"  was not in the description.

Oh, "There are two torn, taped up covers" was not mentioned either.

And, of course, no protection meant that the tops and edges had been banged about and you can see the big crease running down this cover.

Ebay DOES have guidelines if you are selling and sending comics but these idiots are paying no attention.

YOU DO NOT SEND FLIMSY NEWSPRINT COMICS IN TAPED UP CARRIER BAGS WITH NO PROTECTING BOARDS.

Here is my previous posting from just a week ago:

 Why Do Idiots Not Send Comics Through The Mail Correctly?

So, I get home from the shops and there is this floppy package waiting for me.

There is a tiny piece of sellotape along the back and an address sticker.  Didn't recognise the name but could not remember ordering any clothes.

Oh, and there is a clear label stating that it needs to be signed for.  Apparently my sister opened the door and this was handed to her.  This was signed for? Not by either of us.  Oh -would this be the TENTH example this year of a postal delivery worker committing FRAUD by faking a signature?  Is that why this package was almost open?

Ahhh.  NOT clothes. Comics. 1980s, quite prone to tearing and damage newsprint comics.

A closer look, yes a very thin, flimsy (judging by the catalogue bar code something that did hold cloth).  Yes, bumped down at the edges and both ends.

See that damage at the bottom of this pack?  Not a single piece of card and yet postage was £4.50 -more than the comicsw cost but you cannot be so stupid as to not realise it will cost you NO MORE to buy a proper postal packet to put these in.

I just sighed rather than going into a raging fury.

Feedback on this purchase......I'm calming down right now.

As I have looked after comics in all conditions and states for 50 years (I REALLY must get a life) I think I can repair the damage to these but it will take time.  Nice buy but FFS how long before these people learn that just throwing a comic into a crap envelope and putting it through the postal system is NOT WHAT YOU DO.

I really do despair at times -especially when there are web sites telling you HOW to send comics in the mail. And even Ebay tell you what to do!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/gds/How-To-Properly-Package-Ship-Raw-Comic-Books-/10000000175497112/g.html