[78-L] Do a-bay dealers usually follow your packing instructions?

[Taylor Bowie]

There seem to be two kinds of "problem packers" on eBay.  The first and most 
common kind are the clueless ones who don't have a clue...in the rare cases 
I buy from them I send detailed instructions and extra money so that my 
record will arrive in one piece.  I have had at least a 98% success ratio 
with these folks....they do seem anxious to please.

For me the real problems have come with the ones who THINK they know how to 
do it and won't listen.   This includes the LP sellers who list the 
occasional 78 and then send them in  thin boxes as they would the 33 1/3.  I 
recently received such a package....record in five pieces....I had assumed 
that because he listed a lot of material and had "record" in his eBay name 
that he knew what he was doing...wrong again!

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Do a-bay dealers usually follow your packing 
instructions?


> At 05:09 PM 2/20/2009, you wrote:
>>Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> > For those of you who give safe packing instructions to sellers, are
>> > they followed in your experience or ignored?
>>
>>With a couple of exceptions (like one seller in Nevada to whom I
>>sent a box and
>>cardboards, and from whom I received badly broken records in her own 
>>packing)
>>they follow the instructions.
>
> Some have followed my packing instructions while others didn't. About
> 90% of my Ebay bought 78's arrive intact thankfully & yes I've been
> disappointed by poor shipping & broken/chipped records from time to
> time. When that happens I don't buy from that seller again. He or she
> has lost my business forever.
>
>> >
>> > What about those that don't give instructions, how do your a-bay 78's
>> > usually arrive packed?
>>
>>Why do you think I stopped buying on eBay?
>
> I still buy all speeds of records off Ebay.
>
>
>>Incidentally, overpacking is just as bad as underpacking. I've had
>>sellers put
>>all sorts of things between album sleeves, thinking they were adding more
>>protection when instead they were dooming the discs.
>
> I've had that too.
>
>
>>I'm all in favor of leaving discs IN an album and securing the sleeves 
>>within
>>the covers..the discs have spent the last 60 years in those albums and are
>>often warped or dished in a specific shape, and removing them and
>>packing them
>>tightly like a hockey puck can be more damaging than shipping them
>>as they were.
>
> I agree 100%!!
>
>
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