Hi all, I wanted to know how others felt about this situation I recently experienced. I recently purchased a Spit & Spill variation card off of eBay for about 30 bucks. When I got the package home, it was in a bubble mailer and taped on both ends with heavy packaging tape. I couldn't get an edge of tape to peel off with my fingers, so I cut the very edge of the package with scissors, and as it turned out the card was loose in the package and the corner of the card got clipped off. He had heavy cardboard inside the envelope, and a plastic toploader inside the cardboard. The critical part that was missed was the fact that the end of the toploader wasn't taped or secured in any way, plus the toploader he used is one of the slightly wider ones that can fit 3-5 cards, so only one card is very loose inside and will slide right out. So the card came completely out of the toploader and was sticking out of the cardboard pieces by about an inch or so, and just happened to be right on the edge where I made the cut.
I am in the process of exchanging emails with the seller and will probably send him these pics, but at this point he hasn't offered me anything. On one hand I think that I shouldn't have cut the edge and I can see that he tried to package the card well, but I think the fact that he left out a critical piece of the packaging by not taping the top of the toploader puts at least partial blame on the seller.
What do others feel about this?