He was very customer friendly handling the issue though.

yah he's a nice dude, well-meaning. I don't think he deserves to be in the Hall of Shame personally, but I do know certain members here have suffered a loss because of his lack of attention to detail.

I just wanted everyone to be aware that his factory sealed games may be re-seals. His is definitely a nice guy though.

discountgames belongs at the top of this list. I'm going to detail my recent transaction, but this is not the first time they have shipped sub-standard or incorrect items.



I purchased this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI....

Someone with an ebay rating approaching 200k should have the infrasctructure to use new packing materials.  I recieved a beaten recycled box stuffed with newspaper.

The system, controllers and zapper are all filthy.  The copper pin of the RF connector that plugs into the coax jack is broken off.  This supposedly "tested, working" unit wouldn't load so I performed the controller tests on my own toploader.  One of the controllers has an unresponsive start button.  Not only did none of the games included with the unit load on the system, neiter would my cleaned test SMB/DH cart.  I then tested all 3 purchased games on my own clean toploader, Mario 3 would not load.   I then opened the system to see if any attempt had been made to clean or refurbish the system, but the thick cobwebs inside cut my inspection short.

discountgames is a disgrace and deserves to be hailed as such.

Has anyone ever heard or bought from DVD-MOVIE-GALAXY?

yes I bought from DVD movie galaxy. My factory sealed shortorder eggsplode arrived in good shape. No complaints. might have taken a while longer than usual, but I understand when 200 auctions end on the same day, they probably can't get your order out the next day.

I got a game from them. They stated it was original factory seal and in new condition. When I recieved it, it was obviously resealed and warped badly. I have over 40 factory sealed games so I should know. It looks like somone sat on it. I Emailed him and he was VERY rude and called me a crappy Ebayer and threatened to leave me a negative because I gave him 1 star on item description. This is the only time Ive had a bad experience with a seller.

DVDMOVIEGALAXY=Douchebag

I believe the correct term is 'douchebaggalaxy' - get it right Chad.

      They have a mountain of newspaper that they use for packing material, in leiu of bubble mailers or bubble wrap. It's just one of the many reasons they're now number two and falling fast.

^^What, do they steal it from recycling bins? They could at least buy some Kraft packing paper, it's like .0001 per sheet, and it's professional enough material for places like EB and Amazon.

I think the new feedback system will help facilitate the demise of sellers like discountgames, and dkoldies. Though, it won't stop people from sending games in empty diaper boxes...savages.

Who would do something like this? 

^^ I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Personally, I save a ton of packing materials from packages I get and reuse them. I don't have an issue with seller's using anything to help pad my items as long as it keeps it safe during shipping.

Plus, recycling shipping materials is better for the environment. Savages? Meh, seems too harsh a word.

MLN'er

I'll ship in anything as long as it gets where its going safe... diaper boxes are strong, and funny too.

Diaper boxes are hella strong.

typical American uber-consumer mentality, if it's not clean, brand new and paid for, it's not acceptable. If we all recycled and reused like discountgames did, we'd be a lot better off for it. What, is newspaper dirty? Are recycled boxes unusable? Were your items ruined because of the packing material? If he's using boxes that have structurally failed, or newspaper that was used to wrap up fish at the market - that's one thing. But I think it's disgusting how commercialism has ruined us to the point that we feel the need to PURCHASE blank paper to crumple up, instead of using waste ad/news material that would otherwise be thrown in the dump.

BTW Amazon and other online businesses use new materials because they don't buy their items one-by-one from eBay lots, they get them on factory palettes in full cases with no padding. Their assembly-line shipping wouldn't allow for the randomness of reusing materials. And their marketing plan includes having their brand logo on their boxes, so they are printed new. The scale and volume of Discoutgames is infinitesimal compared to Amazon.

^^That's a nice little eco-rant. But Kraft paper is 100% recycled material, and it's what those newspapers would have become if recycled. The box also should have been recycled, which is what I do with every box I receive, and where it did finally end up. As far as did it structurally fail..well the frame of the box was no longer rigid, in fact it was only the tape that was maintaining any semblance of a 'box' shape. If it had not been priority mail, the contents most certainly would have been damaged, if not suffered a contents spill.

The scale of my site is infintesimal to that Amazon, and I still manage to use recycled, but not reused packing materials, and it's really not that much overhead. I could care less what individual sellers use, because they aren't running even small-scale mail order businesses so of course they aren't going to spend tons on packing supplies. And as mentioned above, diaper boxes and accidentally enclosed receipts for toilet paper are funny. But from any ecommerce site outside eBay the use of such packing materials would simply not be acceptable, regardless of scale. Just as if you walked into EB, and the guy the counter simply emptied out his McDonald's bag and stuffed your new gear in that rather than using an in-house bag.

Besides, in an age where you can get your news on your phone shouldn't you really be more outraged that their even 'are' newspapers?

Diaper boxes are incredibly strong...I received about 129 games packed into one such box, and the box arrived in such great shape I'll probably end up reusing it (if my dad doesn't burn it first :/ ). I have no problem whatsoever with recycled packaging...heck, there was one time where I received an envelope that I had actually received and reused before. I ended up reusing it *again*. I bet that envelope had traveled some 5000 miles just within the US...I know it had seen both coasts, and it had seen the East Coast twice.

It was not an eco-rant, it was a rant on the consumer mentality - that we feel we need to pay for things otherwise they're not usable.

I don't care that boxes or paper are made from recycled materials. Recycling is a very costly, filthy and energy-wasting process. Why send the boxes using fuel to a facility, use more chemicals and fuel, then pay money to re-purchase them. I just cut new boxes from larger old boxes and eliminate all that work.

There's no need to pay, that's my point. Paying ANY money, even .0001, for something you already have is lunacy. The perception of value for processed goods is all in your head.

Recycling doesn't necessarily mean reprocessing. I'm not concerned about loss of resources, trees that make boxes and paper are renewable resources that use nothing but free rainfall and free sunlight. I'm concerned about wasting all the energy and pollutants on the processes involved with bringing recycled stuff to my doorstep, when I literally have the exact same thing sitting in my garbage can.

I received a few games in a frozen sausage box, lol. The games arrived safe and smelled like sausage.

I honestly don't care what my games get shipped in as long as they're packed tight. What I hate is the assumption that since the seller stacked them up neatly in a padded envelope when he/she sent the envelope, that they will stay that way. I've received at least 2 padded envelopes in which the games had moved around so much that it had scuffed up the labels on what were supposed to be mint carts. But for a couple common carts it's easier to just accept the damage and assume that I'll find replacements in a lot eventually than to deal with sending them back.

Dear god people, the diaper box was a joke. A humorous truism that anyone who has bought multiple things on eBay should appreciate, knowing that individual sellers tend to use anything laying around to ship with.

The point was this: that when you are running a mail order business and you reach a certain scale at which packing materials are a minimal investment, that investment is a gesture that you are concerned about the perceptions of your patrons by offering that higher standard. dangevin may celebrate it as being eco-savy, but what it truly demonstrates is 'profit before the customer'.

Pointing out that discountgames was content tossing the purchase in anything that could be loosely construed as a box, was only to highlight that the contents were of equally slip-shod quality. There was a definite symmetry to the condition of the box, and it's contents.

OMG VARIANTS!!!!!

When I reuse retail packaging cartons, I break the side seam and tape them back together inside out. You know, the technique everyone uses for sending things in those free Priority Mail cartons via Parcel Post

lol  My postmaster said there going to start really cracking down on that.  but on another note ive got games with t shirts used for packing material.  and for fun i like to go to wal mart and get boxes that items such as condoms, vigina itch cream, douches, etc came in. its fun to send a box with vagisal printed all over the box.