Selling Retro Boxes With Damaged Cards

[WoobieZarz]

Alright, so anyone in this game (make that Hobby), knows that anything older than 10 years (just a number) is subject to cards "sticking" or being damaged one way or another.

I recently bought some retro boxes from the mid 90s, and if anyone remembers my box break, then you know which ones. Some were subject to sticking, which resulted in surface damage, and some from the Jam Session box had dinged/bent corners, I was accepting the fact that this might be the case, so I wasnt fussed, nor a great loss.


Anyhow, I recently sold (ebay) an old 93-94 UD box which I've had for almost 7 years I'd say, and received a neutral feedback for cards having dinged corners. I sent the buyer an email (through ebay) to apologise, and that if they'd taken the time to contact me prior to feedback, I'd have worked with them on trying to fix the issue. - I havent heard back. They are new to ebay (17 feedback) so I don't fully agree they are aware of how to contact people to discuss issues. I think they leave it to feedback. That's another story, it's all good.


Reason for my post, I just wanted to put it out there that for any one selling older boxes, that they could be subject to damage, and should possibly tell their buyers about such possibilities.

Boxes may be factory sealed still, but that doesnt change the fact that some may still have dinged corners.

 

[postgsl]

Unfortunately Scotty people tend to think that if the cards are in the original sealed box then they should all be Gem Mint.

They forget about what the box has been through transit wise since it was first made.

 

[Cobretti]

In all honesty, dented corners happen for two main reasons:

1. badly packaged to begin with (seen this in new products) or
2. the person busting the packets dents them by the method he uses to open them.

Corner damage from shipping and old ages is very rare as usually the packets are in their box tight.

Agree about the sticking nothing you can do about it. Cards even stick when you store them in the card storage boxes for a LONG time. What sometimes works is leaving the stuck pile in air to breath. Sometimes it gets enough oxygen to make it easier to unstick, this depends on surface of card.

 

[WoobieZarz]

Yeah I guess we have no idea on how a box is shipped out to the original supplier prior to us receiving it.

I mean, those 90s boxes I busted, were all shipped together, in a tight-fit box, and the 93-94 UD box I sold on ebay was shipped in a cardboard "wrap" which was bigger than the actual box, so unless it was kicked around, and however it was shipped to me back in the day, I got no idea how the cards got bent.

 

[juddcollector]

I didn't know about sealed packs/boxes, over so many years of age, stick. I knew about cards stored in cardboard boxes but not sealed boxes