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Alternate title: man gets what he wants

Samesies.

So our story begins with yours truly finding a pink variant of Jimmy Eat World's Stay On My Side Tonight on eBay going for dirt cheap ($15). I was the only bidder and got a steal. The record shipped and I had it held at the post office for pickup. I went today to pick it up, and you can imagine my confusion when they brought out a 14x14x12 box from the back that looked like it had been to hell and back. My first thought was that they must've grabbed the wrong package from the back. NOPE. As I looked at the label addressed to me, my stomach started to sink. I took the package to my car and opened it expecting to find the record smashed into pieces. I opened the box to find the record, wrapped in a thin piece of bubble wrap, then wrapped in a Walmart bag...in a massive box, just bouncing around in there with all that empty space. Oh boy. After unwrapping the record, I was SHOCKED that the sleeve only has minor damage and the media itself was perfectly in tact and looks like it has never been played. I truly lucked out. Even though I avoided the worst case scenario, I definitely learned a lesson today about making sure sellers know how to package properly. I wish everyone packaged as well as sellers on VC do!

https://fatwreck.com/products/wasted-mind?_pos=30&_sid=88e26f383&_ss=r Direct Hit! - Wasted Mind 275 on Double mint color vinyl. 2020 pressing

wow that was really good, but over way too soon!!!

Amazon employee once just slapped a packing slip on a record's shrink wrap and mailed it. Came with essentially no corners and flattened. Pretty sure that's the worst way to ship a record.

We are officially SOLD OUT of the Heartwork limited edition yellow vinyl! Don’t worry if you missed out, we are now introducing a limited edition green splatter vinyl! Head over to http://heartwork.theused.net to check out all of the pre-order bundles.

Most of my purchases are forced to be one record at a time, from the US, due to availability. Average shipping cost this year is $18, at a 1.37x exchange rate. Usually doubles the price of any given record. The only relief I have is Rarewaves on eBay and Pop Market on discogs. Buying this OLP album locally for $30 CAD is a relative steal.

Every non-American on this forum will forever LOL at Americans complaining about shipping rates that are anywhere between 50-90% cheaper than US to international.

Bought a copy of the 28 Days Later Soundtrack off Discogs a couple years ago. Got a good deal, meaning less than a hundred. It was coming from England to the states. Motherfucker put it in a padded envelope. Somehow, it came through with minimal damage. What he didn't notice when he graded it was the huge scratch across In The House, like the best song on the album. I returned it to him in a padded record mailer. He later sold it for about 50 bucks and hopefully he got the hint but jebus people be dumb. Learned my lesson. Bought a copy of Ghosts by NIN off ebay from a seller who didn't seem like they didn't sold many records. I grilled that dude like he was trying to date my daughter. How you gonna package it? Do you have record mailers? Can you reinforce it? Dude packaged it like a boss.

$200 punk single shipped in a plain yellow envelope, no padding. Crammed into my little 5” x 3” letter box. Needless to say, some slight warping.

I had a record shipped to me in a natty light bottle case with some bud bottle box flaps for padding. best god damn package of my life.

I once got a record shipped to me in an empty grease covered pizza box with no padding. It was a $100+ record too. eBay shippers are never to be trusted.

Finally getting a repress at a comparatively decent price. Out 3/6. Limited tan. https://shop.2pac.com/products/me-against-the-world-exclusive-limited-tan-color-2lp?variant=31478448095266 Black. https://shop.2pac.com/products/me-against-the-world-standard-2lp?variant=31478431318050

ordered as soon as i saw this yesterday!

Wrath is also being repressed by Music On Vinyl https://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/lamb-of-god/wrath#.Xkb41iWnwlQ

Same. This doesn’t excite me enough to preorder. I’ll stream it and if it’s good pick it up on sale in 6 months.

Once ordered a 10" off of ebay....was packaged perfectly well. Arrived with no bends or big creases in the cardboard or anything....but it looked as if a screwdriver had stabbed the package. Puncture-wound straight through the cardboard, through the jacket, through the dust sleeve, through the record, through the other side of the dust sleeve, through the jacket, and out the other side of the cardboard. No fucking idea what happened. I got refunded on the purchase thankfully and found another copy of that record eventually, but to this day it's the strangest thing i've had happen.