It's a pretty good bend. Trying to flatten it out. Any tips? My instinct is "bend it the other way" but obviously that doesn't work.

That sucks. Was it pictured non-bent?

Comic press

http://www.ebay.com/itm/254056466...
 

Yeah that's the one. I thought it didn't look too bad in the pictures, but now it's freshly re-bent and has a lot of pages.

Talk about being bent out of shape.

Yeah. From what I can tell, the seller doesn't specialize in games and probably didn't think twice about doing that.

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Scratch that. Recent feedback shows they sell a lot of games. It's time they start doing it correctly.
 

Maybe leave it under some heavy books for a bit?

Yep it's under a book for now. I don't want to dampen it or iron it, and it's not like I'm in a huge hurry to have it flat, so I might put it in a book and shove it under the mattress for a while. There's really no crease, just sharp bends on the back cover. Might as well look around for a person/place with a comic press in the meantime. Thanks y'all.

an iron on the lowest setting for hours or days with some weight on top of it will help. thats what i do.

Nice, keep pluggin and chuggin at that collection!

Issuing a nice hearty partial refund will hopefully help that seller to not do that again.

This stuff always agrevates me with sellers on eBay. These sellers have no problem targeting the collectors market with the items they sell but once sold lack the same commitment. Recently bought a large Nintendo sign and it came completely disassembled and broken. Another seller sold a Gameboy CIB that was near mint. The box is rather hard to come by being a variant. Made a note to the seller which I usually do with items that I'm willing to pay additional money towards shipping and materials. That the item is going to be added to my collection. Box shows up tightly packed in a box but the kick in the teeth was the clear packing tape used to tape the actual console box closed! Messaged the seller and they felt that it was the best option to keep from anything falling out. Sucks getting jammed up like this. Try for a partial refund but it's very common sellers now take the stand of not offering one and requesting the return.

Curious to know more about the sign mishap.

 

When i buy big ticket items I, too, message the seller and basically offer to even send additional funds for better packing.  I make an extra special effort if it’s a seller that doesn’t sell a lot of games and seems to just sell off estate items.  Your story worries me still.  There’s not much of a greater nightmare to a collector than finding a very rare item and then having it foolishly and intentionlly damaged by the negligence of the seller.  In fact, I’d rather receive an item damaged by the PO, simply because we all know that’s always a low risk craps shoot, but the sellers you have to trust.

 

Reminds me of my CIB Virtual Boy that the seller brought to the UPS store for packaging :')

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Fonfc...

It was already folded from the look of it, though I think it shouldn't have been folded back up even tighter for shipping like that too. You kind of have to realize with ebay unless you're buying from a collector don't expect collector OCD treatment in return. Unless what they did by ebays terms actually degraded the quality of the item from one tier to the next it's almost hard to argue some fault here to accept a partial refund. Either suck it up or return it. I'm not saying they are right doing that dumb rubber band job on the manual to the game case, but that's in the past now.

Seem like the seller thought he was funny with having done what he did and then saying it was to keep anything from falling out. The box he packaged it in was very tightly fit to the Gameboy box which gave it next to no room to move. So there was no way something could have fallen out. The worse part about the tape on the box is it's not the first time it has happened or even third, forth, fifth time. Seen it before where people taped to the box for starting bubble wrap, taping seller invoice to them, even simple things like ID tags for auction reference. Speaking of which one time won a CIB NES game in which the seller wrote the item number on the tab of the box. When taking the box apart to check the contents it caught my eye and sent the seller a message. They found nothing wrong with it and mentioned they had been doing it on other listings they had up. Felt bad for the guy who won his copy of Metal Strom.
 

Jaxs, that story kills me. I mean, I feel bad for the Magic Piano guy who had the item shipped in the original box, wrapped in priority tape, but that sellers just being a sneaky jerk. I've got to stop following this topic. It's making me start to feel "lucky" that I've not had to many bad hiccups with online sellers. The worst I've seen are seller stickers on the backs of carts, over backside labels, but they tend to have those pictured with the listing and a heat gun had worked well in taking care of that nonsense.