If you are shipping yoyos to people, please have common sense and stop sending them unboxed in bubble mailers. I cannot grasp why anyone would think this is safe or smart or anything. If you need more money to pay for a box or packing materials, up your asking price. If you intend on sending yoyos not in a box, tell the buyer. I will always pay an extra $5 so you can afford the extra shipping cost.
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Lol this is how YYF shipped my yoyos last time I bought from them.
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Just stick the shipping label on the yoyo. It’s fine, right? YYF for the win!
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YYF is like Amazon, label on tha box ROFL
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This shipping crap was never the par for our usps service…. Its history is reliable packages in a timely manner before this administration that is……
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Fun fact: back in 2017 at least, YYE would send out yo-yos internationally in mailers.
Yyf lives by the bubble mailer. lol
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ngl, if the yoyo is disassembled, it’ll probably be fine however I have received yoyos that were bent because they were assembled in a bubble mailer.
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Back pre-covid YYF sent me an ND in a bubble mailer, bent axle, I sent it back for another one and they sent another ND in a second bubble mailer.. also bent axle. I gave up at that point.
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This subject made me think about something that I still laugh about all these years later.
I got this product at least a few decades ago called the California brush. Some of you have probably seen it even if you’re not from California because it’s sold in an auto parts stores and detailing stores of sorts. It’s a big brush with slightly sticky, red soft mop, like bristles. You’re supposed to be able to wipe down your car without scratching it and without washing it. Supposedly it’s guaranteed not to scratch because it has that certain treatment on it and the static guard stuff and whatever else and it actually works pretty well.
If you had some sand like dust on your vehicle, I still haven’t figured out how they had the nerve to guarantee it won’t scratch your vehicle if you’re pushing around rocks with a brush? But like I said, it actually works pretty well.
So anyway, I saw this advertisement in a car magazine for this anti-scratch detailing sponge. Just a big old sponge that looks like something a tile man would use to wipe excess grout off a tile surface.
So I thought why not? Get one just to see if the sucker works.
So three or four days later, I get the sponge in the mail.
It arrived in a box at least three times bigger than it needed to be. The cardboard was so thick and hard you could stand on that sucker like a little stepstool. It was double wrapped with fiberglass tape. And interestingly, the sponge was packed in bubble wrap.
To this day, I have the slightest idea why this sponge was sent like anything could happen to it? I mean, they could’ve run over the box with an 18 wheeler filled with concrete and nothing would’ve happened to the sponge, lol.
I should’ve taken photos of it way back then because I still can’t get the logic of that out of my mind.
Anyway, that’s all.
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I imagine an auto parts store has standard boxes and regardless if parts they use the same boxes so they need to be able to transport like a car mirror or engine component but also might ship a sponge lol
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But….. I never said I ordered the sponge from an auto parts store. I bought the California brush from an auto parts store.
I have no problem, agreeing with what you imagined about standard boxes being used to ship stuff from auto parts store as needed.
You obviously misunderstood what I said.
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I see I assumed and we know what that makes me
Yeah, I’ve been selling on the BST for over a decade. I always use a padded envelope.
I take the yo-yo apart, pad each half, and bag the hardware separately.
I always unscrew my yo-yos anyway to maintain the bearings or swap them out. Not an issue if you’re careful.
Padded envelopes and unscrewed yo-yos are never an issue if you do them right.
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This is the way
But… why would you not use a box? Theyre dirt cheap…
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Because YoYoExpert, YYF, YYS, etc. all use padded envelopes and they’re what I have around
I’ve never got a padded envelope from yys nor yye only yyf. Odd
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somebody ship HSPIN NVX like this to me this year. So many dings and marks during shipment
i don’t mind a yoyo condition, so its ok, but i can’t believe it when i pick up the package and it is ringing like a bell inside (the envelope was very large size so much room to bang around lol)
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I mean I think the padded envelope is fine… once you put it in a box 
Jokes aside, I just think you’re kinda rolling the dice with the sorting belts. Im shocked they havent torn one of those envelopes open on you
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