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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinman_Ben, post: 1085777, member: 9923&quot;]Personally, I don&#039;t think it&#039;s stupid in all circumstances, to ship rolls in bubble mailer that&#039;s not reinforced, but I do believe that if you&#039;re shipping rolls in a hard plastic tube, regardless of the denomination or how many rolls you&#039;re shipping, you absolutely need to reinforce the bubble mailer if you&#039;re going to use one.&nbsp; However, in my opinion, if you&#039;re selling the coins in a paper roll and you&#039;re only shipping one roll, than it may be a good idea to reinforce the bubble mailer, but it&#039;s not an absolute necessity to reinforce the bubble mailer unless you&#039;re shipping two or more regardless of whether the tube is made with hard plastic or paper.&nbsp; But if I&#039;m only shipping one roll of pennies or dimes in a paper tube, I won&#039;t even bother to reinforce the bubble mailer because the packaging arrives in good enough condition to still have all the coins in the package every time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I know this because I&#039;ve never had any complaints about my bubble mailers getting arriving at it&#039;s destination damaged and the roll of Mercury Dimes I&#039;ve sold on ebay, missing from the package as a result of the damage to the bubble mailer.&nbsp; After reading this thread, I will definitely be making modifications to the way I ship rolls of Mercury Dimes to make the packaging more secure, but at the same time, I don&#039;t want to go overboard trying to reinforce the packaging because the longer I spend on the packaging, the longer it&#039;ll take me to actually send the package and that&#039;s probably how most ebay sellers feel.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As a seller, I can tell you that it&#039;s quite a balancing act to try get just the right amount of package reinforcement combined with the absolute most cost efficiency combined with making sure the coins get to the customer as quickly as possible given the selected shipping speed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The reason it is a major balancing act is because ebay&#039;s policies for sellers puts massive pressure on sellers to master the balancing act.&nbsp; Unfortunately, ebay inc puts the biggest emphasis within the seller&#039;s shipping process on how quickly sellers can ship merchandise.&nbsp; They don&#039;t care if the packaging was reinforced or even if proper packaging was used unless the item falls out of the package and, as a result, gets lost.&nbsp; If you wan&#039;t absolute proof that ebay inc doesn&#039;t give a damn about proper packaging unless the item is lost due to poor packaging, just look at the details you&#039;re allowed to give a rating for to determine the DSRs.&nbsp; There is a rating option for Item as Described, Communication, Shipping Time, and Shipping Charges.&nbsp; Not a single option available for proper packaging.&nbsp; This should prove, once and for all, that ebay inc doesn&#039;t give a damn about proper packaging unless the item gets lost in the mail because of the packaging.&nbsp; There&#039;s another word I&#039;d rather use instead of <i>damn</i>, but I think Dave the admin will be ****ed off if I used that word.</p><p><br /></p><p>They just don&#039;t care because the only thing the ebay policy makers care about is sellers getting as many items they sell on ebay shipped in the shortest time period possible because they know that as soon as they ship recently sold items, the seller will be listing more items, which means more money for ebay inc.&nbsp; It&#039;s all about the money, that is the only thing the CEO of ebay cares about, therefore, he/she tells those who write policy for ebay to make sure sellers are pressured to ship items out as quickly as possible and make it as attractive to buyers as possible, through the buyer protection policy.&nbsp; They don&#039;t care if items get lost in the mail due to poor packaging, all they care is that sellers spend as little time as humanly possible, on packaging, so that they can get more items listed, therefore, ebay inc makes more money from listing fees.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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