How would you ship a Nintendo 64 game boxed?

LOVE that! Please do it!

 

Same shit, different thread! This situation is a nightmare for the collector, what a nob tht seller is!

I bought an Amiga TMNT from the US a couple of weeks back, and despite asking the guy to ship in a box, it turned up at work with just paper wrapped around the outside yesterday!
Amazingly, for some reason (manbe boxes are 'teh r@re' where he comes from, he had cut up some foam and packed it INSIDE the game box, so while there were a couple of small crushes, nothing like the nightmare I was expecting as I cut the paper off.

Mind you, that was for a used Amiga game I paid $1 for, so I can live with it, if I buy something sealed and they send it even in a padded mailer, it's enough to make me explode!

Don't think this will ever be sorted, and like I said, even asking them is not enough sometimes!

Paul

 

We all must of bought from the same seller cause i got my sealed copy of perfect dark in the mail the same way sealed and crushed worse if you can even believe that. When I ship stuff out I always use a box no matter what. I see sellers from japan who only ship in envelope unless you pay for ems or extra for box. Just a sellers way to penny pinch on shipping.

 

The copy of Perfect Dark that you've put a pic up of isn't BNIB sealed. Yes, it has some form of wrapping on it but it's not cellophaned and nor does it have the Nintendo tear strip on it. If anything, the seller's done you a favour by fucking up the packaging.

Or am I missing something?

 

As assembler said, bubble or foam sheeting wrapped thickly around the game, put in in another box, put this into a larger box that has packing peanus of bubble wrap around the small box.

As I stated before assume that all sellers are morons, tell them exactly how you want it packed and then tell them that you will pay for the extra packing, extra packing can add $3 to $8 to the cost of shipping. So you want it minty fresh then pay for it.

 

I've noticed Nintendo games from US don't have "Nintendo" -printed tear strips like in Europe. So maybe it was genuinely BNIB :shrug:

 

Frankly I don't recall any of my N64 games coming with any sort of tear strips. I vaguely recall any sort of shrinkwrap but my memory is fuzzy enough to suggest American games didn't even have that.

Been a VERY long time since I've spotted a N64 game I can truly say was brand new and never opened.

 

That is correct nintendo products that are games do not have the nintendo sticker on them.

 

This kind of thing has happened to me more times than I care to count. Anymore I won't even buy delicate items from Ebay unless the seller puts in the description that it will be packed well in a sturdy box, or replies back in the affirmative when I ask if it will.

By far the worst experience I have ever had was with some joker game shop called Gamebreakerz (From Washington, I think?). The name was ironically prophetic in my case.

They shipped me a PS3 SFIV collector's edition crammed into an envelope - they had to crush the box to get it stuffed into the envelope. When I complained they responded back that they shipped dozens of them that way and I was the only one who complained. I demanded that they send a replacement, which they sent, packed in a sturdy box...with no padding whatsoever. It arrived in worse condition than the first, but by that point the owner of Gamebreakerz had marked me as a spammer, and had gotten into her head that I was somehow attempting to defraud her - I guess somehow I was going to make my fortune crushing CEs of SFIV and sending them back to her? She started spewing the word fraud like some kind of derranged smurf every time I tried to work it out with her. Ebay told me to submit a claim, but by that point nobody was selling the CE for less than twice retail so I just kept the damaged one and left a negative. Only negative feedback I have ever had to leave.

I only mention it here to make good on the $$'s in bad advertising the crazy @!&* got from me.

 

I remember here in Australia, seeing some N64 games shrink wrapped only. No tear strip nothing. So maybe they only did that to some games in different regions.

Possibly sayin999 it is from the same seller, cause he sold to more previously. I checked his feedback and was 100%, unless everyone did what I did and messaged him to return it. I was very close from putting negative without contact, but that's a pretty rude thing to do, but so is not shipping something properly. RAGE!!

 

This happened to me with a Playstation flight stick. It was the Japanese version, and I mainly wanted it for the cool boxart. He just slapped a shipping label on the box and shipped it like that. I mean, it was a pretty big box, but he could've just put it inside of a slightly larger box. It pissed me off, but I never did anything about it.

 

Had an old mate send a Dreamcast and games in a (I believe) a 2nd hand padded bag from the UK to Australia. When I got it, the bag was torn, the inside plastic was the only thing holding it together. The 4 or so games it came with had the cases smashed and a controller was cracked. The console itself was ok and I got a partial refund.

 

This is how I received an otherwise mint MVS kit. Was a pleasant surprise nonetheless, because I bought it as a lose cart.

Also this is how an online retailer shipped our new printer, despite the warning on the box that it should not be used as a shipping box.

 

Update on my situation. Got half my money back, as shipping back was $10.50 No tracking - $23.00 Tracking. Without taking any risks, I'm still happy with the half refund. As an opened version of Perfect Dark is $22 or so.

 

Now I'll step in with the Seller's nightmares...heh.

I don't really have problems with shipping because I protect everything well, but it's been my experience that the people who want overly obsessive packaging are usually never willing to pay extra for it. The conversation usually goes something like this:

Buyer: I'll need it wrapped in bubble wrap, then placed in a box, then I'll need that bubble wrapped and placed in another box.

Me: OK, the package weighs more now and there are extra materials so the price is now $26 instead of $24.

Buyer: Eh, nevermind. Just ship it how you normally do.

What really gets me is when they have a very fragile yet expensive item and they choose SEA shipping when it really doesn't save them that much. They're paying $500 for an item and then trying to save $25 on shipping meaning their overall savings is 5% while the chances of damage increase exponentially. Those are the same guys who usually go out of their way to tell you how important the package is to them but they just can't let go of that extra $25 to make sure it isn't crammed into a container on a ship.

My favorite is when they say, "Shipping is expensive, can you do anything about that?" Sure, let me call Japan Post and ask them for a discount just for you. Obviously they're just trying to reduce the price of the item and trying to create an excuse that sounds like they aren't.

And heaven forbid you put the wrong price in the PayPal invoice then tell them you need to correct it. It doesn't happen often but when it does they pretend that they're somehow owed a discount they never thought they were getting in the first place. I never answer "How much is shipping" emails anymore, I just tell them to go back to the listing. I quoted the wrong price once and naturally the guy instantly bought it and paid the lower price. Now I wonder if people do that on purpose hoping Sellers make an error. Again, not often, but it goes to show how some people will do anything to get cheaper shipping.

What I'm trying to say is that it works both ways...heh.

I do have one last story...as a Buyer. I bought 3 PCs from the US and used a forwarding company. They have an option to include airpak protection for an extra $5. I chose the option. What I got was a single strip of airpack with ALL OF THE AIR DEFLATED IN ALL OF THE POCKETS. I actually sent the company a picture and asked if it was a joke. They guy said the air must have gotten out during shipping. It actually wasn't hard to believe because that's the only padding they added. The box was too large for 3 PCs so they just bounced around inside. Amazing.

 

this reminded me of this




as someone posted it, a good way to shipped boxed nintendo games sealed or non sealed is by putting a bunch of packing peanuts in the box and place the game in the middle. for many years thats how i did it. but i have a nyc apartment and its hard to store packing peanuts so i gave up on the idea.

what ive been doing is the amazon.com method of shipping. what they do is they have a piece of cardboard exactly the size of the box (the inside part). they then wrap the game using plastic, in my case, i use the package wrap (also known as surran/glad wrap) until the game is secured in the middle and doesn't move. i usually do a little shake test to make sure they dont move then place 4 sets of tape at the bottom of it so its stuck at the bottom of the box so even if the box tumbles and fall, you will never crush it.

this is how it would look like (i just did this to make an example, the box scrap on the bottom is usually bigger)


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This is why I try to buy locally as often as possible, I got my boxed copy of perfect dark as well for about 10$ from a play and trade type store but it wasn't a chain.

 

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