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NickGeel:
I'm looking for someone from France who could help me out with a game purchase from Ebay.fr
The seller won't ship to the Netherlands. Maybe someone could forward it for me. I would really appriciate the help.
sheep2001:
--- Quote from: NickGeel on August 04, 2017, 10:55:13 AM ---I'm looking for someone from France who could help me out with a game purchase from Ebay.fr
The seller won't ship to the Netherlands. Maybe someone could forward it for me. I would really appriciate the help.
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I can help. Let me know the details.
NickGeel:
--- Quote from: sheep2001 on August 04, 2017, 02:37:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: NickGeel on August 04, 2017, 10:55:13 AM ---I'm looking for someone from France who could help me out with a game purchase from Ebay.fr
The seller won't ship to the Netherlands. Maybe someone could forward it for me. I would really appriciate the help.
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I can help. Let me know the details.
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Thanks. I've send you a pm.
wiggy:
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--- Quote from: wiggy on August 03, 2017, 04:36:32 PM ---People often mistakenly assume that packing an item SUPER tight is the best way to go. If the item can tolerate being jostled around in the box a bit (and an NES cart most certainly can), then it's best to pack it a bit loose. If that box was packed tight, then the packing material itself could very well have damaged the cart. Leaving room for the box to deform should the USPS decide to curb stomp it is a good thing.
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I can agree with that... if the contents of the purchased NES Lot had the Box and all of its contents (which it didn't). Meaning that the box had a good section inside where it had no support to protect from flattening. If you have a Cart itself, psh, there wouldn't be much (if any) damage. A box with with that much damage would scare anyone upon arrival, knowing that the NES box inside it that is very fragile that has an empty space the size of this piece of foam
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mv4AAOSwxYxUyBox/s-l500.jpg
It should have been packaged better than 2x newspaper pages.
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Agreed. Protecting a relatively fragile, 20+ year old box does take a bit more thought and material than some scraps of paper. Just one of those clear box protectors would pretty much take care of it. Those suckers are tough.
That said, the post office still manages to destroy stuff that's seemingly impossible to damage, no matter how it's packed. We recently shipped a batch of arcade sticks and one arrived with with a broken 1oz. Glass spray bottle (full of plastic cleaner/polish to help care for it). The bottle itself was in a heat sealed bag, inside a 2x4x6 box, surrounded in polyurethane foam inside a 8x10x14 box (the packaging for the stick itself), packed into a 12x15x15 shipping box filled with packing material. The customer sent pics of the outer box, which looked as though it had been backed in to by a small truck. But the inner packaging/boxes were all perfect. Yet somehow they managed to toss that thing around hard enough to break that small vial. Luckily it only refined the small box that it was packed in, which was full of other important parts such as a USB cable, some metal keychains, AC adapter, etc.
maximumbob54:
Am I the only one laughing at the fact that the USPS just about wrecked a box with a copy of Wrecking Crew inside???
Anyone?
Anyone....
I'll see myself out... : /
On a more solid "eBay Topic" kind of note... I was looking for a couple of OG Xbox component cables only to see they have apparently dried up. It seems like just a year ago I had my choice of break out boxes or standard cables for component hookup both of which were original Microsoft branded products. Now it seems they are rare as hen's teeth.
Is the Xbox suddenly popular again? Side note, I wonder if the same type of HDMI device as we've seen for the Dreamcast and Gamecube could be made for the Xbox... Hmmm...