Please people, don't send your items in bubble mailers.

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I've gotten 5 packages sent in a bubble mailer over the last couple days, and everyone of them has arrived damaged.

I'm going to have a lot of Master System cases to replace (good luck finding a spare SMS Action Replay by the way) because the sellers wanted to save a couple of bucks.

It's so frustrating to think these things survived 20+ years relatively intact, only to wind up smashed because someone was too lazy to take the extra 5 minutes to find a spare cardboard box, get some packing tape, and crumple up some old newspaper, plastic shopping bags or other inexpensive packing material.

[jessie]

Well said. I have had this same issue. I was fortunate that the damage was minor, but still it was not damaged before they sent the item.

[Deleted]

I never had many problems with bubble envelopes. Sometimes a few corners got broken, but otherwise my games always arrived safely.

[Deleted]

I always sell my items case open in bubble wrap that way they only cost £2.25 to post second class recorded. Ive never had any complaints. Problem with ebay is your only allowed to charge max £3 p & p for a game and that wouldnt cover a game in a box recorded. I always offer for people to pay more for postage as an option but nobody as ever selected it lol.

[korax]

I've always seen the normal SMS cases in particular as sturdy, and have always sent single games in bubble-envelopes because of that, and I yet have to hear any complaints.

I'm not familiar with how carriers distribute stuff, but if the game is being sent as a letter in a bubbled envelope, I doubt it'll get crushed if it's ending up with all other mail items. You'd really have to frisbee the thing around to do some real damage.

What I do know however is that some employees on the carrier facilities have little regard for the items they handle, and I know from people that have worked there that they do play every kind of sport with the things you and I pay expensive fees to pack and send.

[Retrobob]

Never had any issues with these either really. Maybe something to do with your local sorting office or letterbox? Having delivered leaflets before I have seen plenty of letterboxes that are way too stiff and could imagine the postie damaging something.

[Kenneth]

Whenever I buy only one or two games from a single seller, I send an email asking for a rigid cardboard box with enough bubblewraps.
And a online tracking number of course.

Worse disappointment ever was a WKK remote controller bought brand new. The seller put the stamp ON THE CONTROLLER BOX, wrote my adress ON THE CONTROLLER BOX and shipped it this way, I got MAD rofl

[lorf]

I've had that happen with retro consoles in the past. I bought an Atari ST computer and the seller just stuck a label to its box then covered it in tape, was furious! Ruined it completely.

[joemusashi9980]

I can understand sending games packed with the box open but sometimes these cases don't like to be opened flat, having been closed for 20+ years. I've had a couple posted this way and the case seam/crease has started to crack. Nothing major but its added damage to an otherwise mint game.