Buyee/Yahoo seller

[Stephen]

https://buyee.jp/item/search/seller/tsun815815

 

Heads up on how he ships

Lucky it was iron as post was broke.

Nothing wrapped around it not even rubber band. Just tossed in envelop.

Sad as can be.

[Brian]

Pathetic. I think someone who ships antiques like that has no respect.

[Japan auctions]

Fortunately, most sellers pack a bit better than this, but virtually all, even those selling very high grade tsubas for many years, send the tsuba in the box.

I always rewrap the tsuba separately after inspection and make sure the cardboard box is of adequate size to absorb shock during EMS posting.

I learned my lesson the hard way...  the tsuba can be scratched if the post in the kiribako becomes dislodged (there are typically 2 steel pins holding it on) and the tsuba can actually hammer your kiribako to pieces.

If you buy from Buyee or Jaunce, you should be able to specify better packing - though perhaps they charge an extra fee? 

Will they also remove the tsuba from the box upon request?  Just curious - please let me know your experiences

 

Kelly

[Vermithrax16]

I use the option for the seller to send to Buyee warehouse in Japan to be packed, they use boxes and do a pretty good job.

[Stephen]

Insured Delivery: check

Inspection: check

Done nope

[Japan auctions]

I quite agree that Buyee does a good job of outer packing - often quite overdone actually - but what about inner packing?

I have had armors forwarded to me from Buyee which were super foamed to the point of being overweight and oversized for EMS (that was why it was sent to me - EMS refused it)

but the armor was clanking around against itself inside the box.  I would assume a tsuba would not get inner treatment, either?  Do they take the tsuba out of the kiribako?

[Ken-Hawaii]

Not sure that Buyee pays any attention to anything insde, only superficial. My sword mentor just tried them for the first time, buying a nice group of 6 guinomi - all of which were broken when they arrived, He put in for an insurance claim, & was paid exactly $3,91 (no, that's not a mistake), based on some fine print. Needless to say, neither he nor I will ever use them again.

[Nikanoru]

When I was using Buyee every time I asked them to pack tsuba outside the box and generally pack tight to prevent movement of the box inside. No fails.

It seems like the tsuba was shipped in seller's original package. Stephen, are you sure you asked them to repack? Inspection doesn't mean repacking. You should always ask them.

[Greg F]

Shouldnt need to ask imo but unfortunately theres a lot of incompetent sellers so it seems you have to think of everything these days. To be honest its only happened to one of the first tsuba ive bought and i always seem to forget to ask about packaging since but have been lucky since.

 

Greg