A pleasure dealing with Joko3. Needed a few items from Japan and he was super helpful, even helping me ask the seller some questions to make sure the condition was what I was expecting. Packing was excellent and everything got to me quickly.
lol at the HD thing, I can totally see it. The chips thing is asinine - there's no excuse for that. I've never ordered super fragile things or mixed heavy and fragile things intentionally because I suspected that this might happen. I basically use my knowledge of lazy/stupid people from my...
You didn't catch my edit. Are you saying you can get comparable UPS shipping rates to Buyee? If so, you're absolutely right, what you're talking about makes a lot of sense.
Interesting. Given that they get to pass through the cost there's not much incentive to be efficient. Plus no one is going to pack like a person who cares about his stuff. Given the choice I'd rather they waste space than under protect, but if you can save a person money and keep everything...
I've used Buyee a lot and have never had an issue (but I always select protective packaging for like $11).
Edit: Of course now my next shipment will come destroyed