Brown paper + unpadded vintage box = recipe for disaster.

[LTO_Dave]

here's another.... do not turn a kit box inside out to ship.

x2

This happened to me with a M.A.N.E. Eclipse that had a mint box.

[Incredible_Serious]

I've posted a car in it's own kit box, inside-out before.... was fine for me as (a) I was advertising it as the car, and (b) I mentioned in the ad how I was sending it.... same buyer now has the same car up for sale again, same details as when I sent it!!!

I think there is good form in using the kit box to send something, IF (a) you announce your intentions upfront, (b) it doesn't damage the kit box so much, and (c) the box is good enough to take good care of the contents.

Most of the time, though, I prefer to keep my kit boxes..... they make great storage boxes.

Alex

[Lowgear]

here's another.... do not turn a kit box inside out to ship.

now granted, i didn't necessarily care about the box, but it would've been nice to have. but now the lid is cut in 2 pieces.

I received a stadium truck one time in an inside outed diaper box with no packaging materials. Just the truck thrown in the box. Both the box and the truck got pretty beat up during transit. Luckily it was just something I needed for parts. I was still pretty pissed though.

[badhoopty]

ive said this story a few times here, but back around 2001 or so i won a nib 6010 off ebay for 100 bucks. it was listed without a picture and i took a gamble. (rc10 stuff was way cheaper back then)

anyway a week or so later i got it, and the seller had just simply put the shipping label ON THE SHRINKWRAP.

no damage to the box and i was able to remove the shipping label with some benzine, and there was minor tearing here and there on the corners to the shrinkwrap, but not as bad as you would think. i prevented it from tearing further with a little scotch tape.

[badhoopty]

This was the nib kit that sent me over the top with the seller
I was so pissed I actually built it

ahh, i see im not the only one.

i'll try to remember to post a pic of mine, you wouldnt even know it was shipped without a box.

[huminski]

The photo of the box with the labels directly attached just made me very very mad.

I have been using ziploc bags filled with air, cheap and adds no weight.

Yet another simple, genius idea that I never thought of before, and can attribute now to the fine folks here.

[tamiya]

The photo of the box with the labels directly attached just made me very very mad.

if it were a private sale scored cheap and posted by some granny who maybe
didn't know some ppl actually would want to keep the box... ok fair enough

but THIS... this came from a commercial vendor fercrissake!









some of the parcels i've received, could be mistaken for experiments like these

Postal Experiments
by Jeff Van Bueren San Francisco, California
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html

or

WIRED magazine's Return To Sender challenge
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/multimedia/2008/11/st_15returntosender?slide=1&slideView=3

[Lonestar]

Actually - you CAN use a turned-inside-out NEW STUFF box to ship VINTAGE cars... I don't mind. I actually even reuse these boxes myself too

I've had the label stuck directly on a vintage box too, and yes this was a team car box too grrr... this drove me nuts just like you guys

Anyways - glad to see this thread driving awareness about the issue so we all buy/sell in better context

Paul

[moto-steve]

How about sellers asking you for more cash for shipping I picked up a Tamiya king cab, mainly for the box and instructions, the truck was okay.Shipping was $20.00 and I asked the guy can you really ship it for that price, he replied yes. Then I asked him after I bought it to carefully box it up due to the box, he sais okay.In the end he ships it and asks me to send him another $10.00 for shipping, I was like you gotta be kidding, I agreed to split the diff, and he still was pissed after I gave him $6.00 more. Gave him advice to up his shipping charges in the future