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Message:: [QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 903647, member: 25270"]I have been buying a lot of coins on eBay recently, and of course one of the determining factors about whether I buy is the shipping charges. When you're buying a low-grade coin to complete a set, it sucks to end up paying $4 when shipping is included when the coin is only worth $1. I understand people need to make money, but when I get these coins, I see so many ways this could have been done cheaper. People send one coin in a big bubble mailer with an envelope inside it. The whole thing is heavily taped, so it takes me five minutes to get inside it. One time I had one come inside a big 8 1/2 by 11 envelope, which had another USPS priority mail envelope inside that, which had the coin in it. This is for one coin! There's no reason a coin needs to be shipped in anything but a regular envelope, taped in a way so it won't move around. People could be charging $1 or less for shipping and they'd sell a lot more and get higher bids. Maybe if you're buying a really valuable coin you want more protection, but for my 1949 Roosevelt dime an envelope would have been more than adequate. Why do people go so overboard on the packaging?[/QUOTE]