Thread: Good deals gone bad!

Inexcusable. A regular envelope, one piece of cardboard and a baggy? Pure negligence and total disregard for the product and for the safety of the mail handlers.
I'm guessing the rubber bands were put there by the post office.
Such a waste. Really sorry. It was doomed from the moment it was placed in the mail.

Dont know WTF the person who packaged that was thinking! Dude that just sucks! What a heart breaker that is....

I recently had a pretty decent shopping experience with an eBay shop, where one of my soap bowls came busted. No questions asked, the US-based seller put a new one in a proper box with loads of protective stuff and posted it to me, here in Europe. The shipping costs were definitely higher than what I paid for (I think with the original shipment as well), so this was good service.

In general buying from the bay is OK, as long as you use your brains too. Someone who's done lots with razors will know better what to do than someone emptying their attic.

Sad to see this type of stuff happening though, because you don't want a nice razor go to waste like this.

Thats terrible. I usually mail razors in a bubble wrap envelope with the razor wrapped in something. I have yet to have one destroyed. I guess I will start buying boxes to put them in because I would definitely be sick if this happened to me. Sorry about the razor, but thanks for sharing that way people can learn something about shipping a razor.

I think the vast majority of eBay traders ship their stuff decently packaged, but there are always a few clowns that stand out negatively, and unfortunately it's happened with a really nice razor here.

Looking at that packaging, I'm amazed at some of the stuff I found. I ordered some basic computer electronics from a guy in Hong Kong, at a price of $3 and a few cents, including shipping worldwide. The item came in a little box in a bubblewrapped envelope. Totally amazing, because that kind of shipping usually is more expensive than the total package price. Guess we live in a price-inflated part of the world. The component itself would've cost me around $20 in our local stores.

That is simply awful, I would have cried if I paid for a razor and it came like that. I would be even more angry though if I paid the standard ebay shipping rate of 200% of the actual shipping cost and that's all the person stuck it in.

That's such a shame!

I would be so diassapointed.

Those pictures are painful. Good luck on the refund, you certainly deserve it.

If I didn't know better I'd think the post office is trying to eliminate straight razor shipping!

I had EXACTLY the same thing happen yesterday. Got a bone handled razor off Ebay to use for the scales but the blade was OK as well. The bone scales were incredible looking in the photo and it arrived quickly and apparently well packaged. When I opened it and got to the razor though the bone on one scale had been completely crushed - much like the photo above. The seller was a stand-up guy and refunded most of it. the only reason he didn't give me a full refund was that I wanted to keep the metal. it's a Sheffield steel blade so I figured $2 for a blade is a good price for a project blade!

Originally Posted by Jermwood

It was sent US Priority Mail so I guess you could say he went postal on it!

That is quite negligent. Having been shipped priority, it could have been placed in a small priority box without additional cost. Negligent and goofy too.