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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1886664, member: 75105&quot;]I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bubble mailers are only a good option to keep plastic from cracking as they absorb impact.</p><p><br /></p><p>However they don&#039;t have nearly the protection the stop metal from being damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a junk silver coin, and put it in a bubble mailer, and hit it as hard as you can with a miner&#039;s pick.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will bet you 10 to 1 it will be damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s my point, if something is strong enough to damage a solid metal disc (aka a coin), through a clasp envelope, and another layer of cereal board, then it would damage a coin through a bubble envelope. That&#039;s why it&#039;s a waste. Anything strong enough to bend, nick, or otherwise damage a coin through a clasp envelope and a sheet of cereal board will damage a coin through a bubble mailer.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, but with any business, there is always risk. May have been a risk of time, but no risk of money.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with eBay is that they used to be community driven until the latest CEO (the C stands for Crap) took over and ruined eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will noticed there is a far higher presence of buy it now items instead of auctions like in the &quot;good &#039;ol days&quot;, and you can thank him for that.</p><p><br /></p><p>He forced a lot of new rules that disadvantaged both the buyer and the seller, and even though thousands of sellers complained, there was nothing they could do as eBay is the Walmart of retail.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two of the biggest things that ruined eBay are 21 day hold times for sellers. How would you have liked to start your dental practice, and be told all the money you make would have to be held for 21 days?</p><p><br /></p><p>Worse yet, in the initial stages of the policy, sellers were being held shipping money as well and had to ship things on their own dime, now that&#039;s completely unfair.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second thing he did was instate a 9% Final Value Fee on Shipping, and this was around the time they pushed to offer free shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>So not only were sellers encouraged to bake the shipping price into their items, they had to raise their rates 9% or loose money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Charging a fee for sellers on shipping is ridiculous, since many sellers were trying to be fair and charge fair prices for shipping. </p><p><br /></p><p>He also over-commercialized it by allowing &quot;big box sellers&quot; such as toys r us and best buy to sell on there. They also scrubbed negative feedback off their slate for them as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay was NEVER meant to be Amazon, it was always supposed to be for small and medium sellers, but the CEO got dollar signs in his eyes and ruined it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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