> So I am asking for opinions about what I should do. How do you guys look at > this kind of thing?
Hi Tom, You could ask for a 100% refund as you stated and return the item or you could contact the seller and explain that the holder was not in the described condition and ask for a small partial refund. If I wanted to keep the holder then I would probably ask for the later or just accept like it is. As for the shipping, don't you just hate it when that happens. Good packaging should be a given, but some people just don't understand what good packaging consists of. I got a microscope recently that I had purchased on Ebay and it was shipped unbagged in Styrofoam peanuts (they could have easily put it into a garbage bag for protection). It took me over an hour to clean out all of the Styrofoam fragments from the scope. My solution was to leave a neutral feedback statement stating "Please don't pack a microscope in Styrofoam peanuts without bagging it first." hoping that it would persuade the seller to do better next time. Hope this helps. Charles
