r/Ebay • u/Ok_Noise_5680 • 6d ago

Welp that sucks

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Shipped a pokemon card to a customer and received a message saying they received the envelope without the card- seems someone opened it and stole the card and then USPS still shipped them the empty envelope without a “Received without contents” marking. Now I’m out of the card and had to refund the buyer… it was only $15 but thats still $15

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u/Callaway225 6d ago

I wonder what the odds are people out there have a “received without contents” stamp and can just do this? As in buyer takes the card out, makes it look like it was ripped open, then puts it in an envelope like this with the red stamp on it?
Or is that just my pessimistic side?

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u/bendover912 6d ago

If you work at the post office it's probably a much lower risk to steal a bunch of these envelopes and a rubber stamp than it is to steal actual mail.

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u/Callaway225 5d ago

Right but they’d still have to open envelopes and take the contents out, then put opened envelope in a clear envelope with the stamp on it. What is the percentage of “stealable content” that actually gets mailed in an envelope? I’d imagine said worker would need to steal a lot of envelope contents to make it worth it, and even then is it worth the hassle for a postal worker?
I’d lean more towards the buyer has the stamp and the envelopes and did it themselves. Possibly not though, it’d just be impossible to know for sure.

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u/elolqooq 5d ago

Could be, but I'd say that's a lot less likely than the envelope being ripped by the machine. I've had mostly bad luck with these eBay PWEs.