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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4137568, member: 110350"]I can understand how you feel! A couple of years ago, I received an envelope from Plovdiv, Bulgaria containing a Julia Soaemias denarius I had ordered from a seller located in Belgium. The coin was in the thinnest possible peel-apart cardboard sleeve inside an unpadded envelope. It wasn't even in a flip, but had been placed directly inside the cardboard sleeve, held in place with a piece of tape applied to the coin -- the tape had come off -- with no other protection. It arrived looking like this. Yes, it was possible to fit the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle, but that did me no good at all. It's not as if I was going to try to glue it together!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1070597[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1070602[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1070604[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, I had purchased the coin on Vcoins and had paid via Paypal, so after I took photos and sent them to the seller (with a very annoyed cover email!), I received a refund. I asked the seller for an explanation of why the coin was sent from Bulgaria if he was in Belgium, and he told me that Bulgaria was where his consignor was located. (I must say I'm not familiar with the practice of a consignor actually keeping the coin in their possession during the selling process, and mailing it to the buyer, but apparently that's how this seller did business.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was a bit reluctant to buy the coin in the first place given its stated weight of only 1.9 grams, but it never occurred to me that it would be packaged so carelessly![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4137568, member: 110350"]I can understand how you feel! A couple of years ago, I received an envelope from Plovdiv, Bulgaria containing a Julia Soaemias denarius I had ordered from a seller located in Belgium. The coin was in the thinnest possible peel-apart cardboard sleeve inside an unpadded envelope. It wasn't even in a flip, but had been placed directly inside the cardboard sleeve, held in place with a piece of tape applied to the coin -- the tape had come off -- with no other protection. It arrived looking like this. Yes, it was possible to fit the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle, but that did me no good at all. It's not as if I was going to try to glue it together! [ATTACH=full]1070597[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1070602[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1070604[/ATTACH] Fortunately, I had purchased the coin on Vcoins and had paid via Paypal, so after I took photos and sent them to the seller (with a very annoyed cover email!), I received a refund. I asked the seller for an explanation of why the coin was sent from Bulgaria if he was in Belgium, and he told me that Bulgaria was where his consignor was located. (I must say I'm not familiar with the practice of a consignor actually keeping the coin in their possession during the selling process, and mailing it to the buyer, but apparently that's how this seller did business.) I was a bit reluctant to buy the coin in the first place given its stated weight of only 1.9 grams, but it never occurred to me that it would be packaged so carelessly![/QUOTE]
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