Have You Ever Received Coin(S) That Were Packaged By Incompetents?

It happens and I do not understand why people can't take the extra 2 minutes to properly pack and send coins. I once bought a PCGS st gauds on ebay from a reputable seller,plenty of feedback. After being stuck in limbo for awhile while there was a PO strike at a airport,i finally received my double eagle. Sent via registered mail in a normal letter envelope!! I could not believe it,i message the seller on how he can send a 1400$ item in a normal regular envelope. Never ceases to amaze me the amount of stupidity people attain.

this was like a year ago and I felt there was little I could do as it would be the post office's word against mine. maybe I should have tried it anyway. another reason is that in about 8 years I have only seen 2 or 3 similar sets.

I'll just suck it up, and if and when I sell it I will make a disclosure. one thing that was good was that it was the obverse side (the Queen Mary side was on all the coins), so the "art" side that most people show was unaffected.

I can't believe some of the stories here, but I can. how can anybody be so incompetent so as to just stick a coin (and no capsule) in an envelope and stick it in the mail? just plain incompetency with a bit of stupidity mixed in. and from "experienced" sellers to boot?

the worst account was the one where the seller just taped the coin to the back of the shipping label with no envelope. that example takes 1st prize.

I work with motorcycles at times and twice I was sent very heavy v-twin cylinders and another time a heavy gear-driven supercharger that was just placed in the box with a small amount of the tiny bubble wrap on one, no packing on the other. the parts were sticking through the sides of the cardboard box! now, this is after I asked the seller to be particulary careful with packing them. both of these items have sharp edges, brittle heat ridges.

I still gave the seller good feedback altho I problably should not have, I saw the main blame with pobjoy and the post office, he was apologetic and gave me back $200 altho it problably reduced the value of the set about a thousand or so, but I just let it go. but no more.

I think the lesson here is to remind the seller TWICE if they could just wrap some tape around the capsule (especially if they do not deal with coins) and, if possible, to videotape the package if you are sending it off, and, as one poster said, also when you first open the package if receiving a coin(s) in case the buyer tries to "pull a fast one" or the post office bawls... heck, the post office would have blamed the damage on inadequate packaging and they would have been right.

but from pobjoy? come on! I would have fired the designer of the case if I was a company executive or at least "used harsh language" towards him or her haha. even a complete moron could see all the open space inside of the case and most know that the post office care little to nothing about packaging.

it is not just the post office. I had an expensive package (not coins) coming to me and was waiting for the UPS truck to arrive. it arrived and I saw a package on the cab floor of the truck. sure enough, it fell down from the cab floor, down the steps and onto the cement driveway. make a wild guess whose package it was!

I have always said (now this is my original saying) that 90% of my problems are caused by people who are either incompetent, stupid or greedy... or a combination of all three. you have my permission to use the expression yourself as I did not trademark it haha (like "I've fallen and can't get up")! yes, that expression is trademarked if you can believe it, look for it the next time the commercial is shown in the fine print at the bottom of the tv screen.

well, it could be worse. I could be dead or born without arms or something, so in the whole circle of life I did not go wild. once I drove hundreds of miles to pick up a custom hi-performance "new" v-twin "custom" built motor... it had used factory standard rockers (they were supposed to be new "performance" roller rockers), used pushrods (not even all were the same make), etc. if I had not opened the motor when I got it I would have never known about it, that is how paranoid I am now about some people.

ok, I don't feel so lonely now... mike

you can see that there is about 1/2" - 3/4" clearance between the top of the capsules and the bottom of the top of the inside case. the smart people at pobjoy put inside a 1/8" slab of foam rubber as "padding". as I said, I picked up the matching silver set and it was packaged exactly the same way...

Why give positive feedback? it may not have made a difference in this particular case but the feedback is so future buyers can know that the seller is bad at packaging items and perhaps ask for additional packaging or avoid this seller and buy from someone who packages better.

The US Mint had a similar problem with the 2011 silver eagle anniversary set. A lot of people got their sets with the capsules and sometimes the coins loose rattling around in the box.

You say you bought these sets from a private seller. Is there any chance that Pobjoy had additional padding in the box but someone over the years removed it?

Condor, while it was possible that pobjob had additional padding, I really doubt it. I thought the same until I got the matching silver set... like the first set, there was only one thin foam rubber padding "slice". I do not understand the logic, if there were more padding, why somebody would remove it and leave the thin padding in the case.

there had been a mixup in the delivery and the package went thousands of miles in the wrong direction before I was able to redirect it to my correct address. It had made many stops along the way. I am convinced that the capsules came loose out of their case indentations because of rough handling by the post office. the box was small, so it was a lot easier to toss (hence a hard drop to the floor after it had bounced off of a wall) than to carry to wherever the employee wanted it.

if the second package had additional packing, ok, I would go for the seller not padding it correctly as the primary blame. but as I said, they both had exactly the same "packing".

I read the post where the seller STUCK TAPE TO THE COIN ITSELF!

As 99.99% of my coins are sourced from the Net I have had many instances of coins being taped onto paper/cardboard, loose coins in packages, Coins polished as a "favour" so that they look better for Me and groups coins just shoved into a ziplock bag together so that they get bagged badly in transit.
It is not that hard to tell that a seller has NO idea about coins just by the way they are shipped.

I think that there are plenty of lousy buyers and sellers, so it is not like a one-way thing here. both buyers and sellers can suck... and, don't forget my original saying...

"90% of my problems are caused by people who are either incompetent, stupid or greedy... or a combination thereof".