Advice on shipping eggs

[ranpmiller]

Hi there. I have a question for y'all. I bit the bullet and paid the $3 to join rba and promptly bought some hatching eggs. I paid $35 (including shipping) for 6+ won on Friday. They did not ship until Tuesday which being a holiday weekend and a rare breed ok. Got them today and seller sent 8 eggs wrapped in bubble wrap. 4 were completely smashed and had leaked all over everything else. Another 2 have cracks and the last 2 have detached air sacs. I sealed the hairline cracks with clear nail polish and set them along with the other 2 in the incubator and will not turn on turner for a couple of days. Sellers response was (I am paraphrasing here but you get my drift) sorry about your bad luck file a claim with usps insurance. These eggs were wrapped once in bubble wrap and the sides of the box was lined but there was no other cushion like you usually see like shredded paper or egg cartons etc. to top it all off I can't find any way to leave feedback on that site for the seller. Yes, the postal service can be tough on boxes, but when you ship eggs you should anticipate that and if you are going to charge prices like that I feel the next buyer should be warned. Am I over reacting? I will probably not be doing business on rba anymore. Fool me once...well you know the rest lol.

 

[WendyF]

Hi there. I have a question for y'all. I bit the bullet and paid the $3 to join rba and promptly bought some hatching eggs. I paid $35 (including shipping) for 6+ won on Friday. They did not ship until Tuesday which being a holiday weekend and a rare breed ok. Got them today and seller sent 8 eggs wrapped in bubble wrap. 4 were completely smashed and had leaked all over everything else. Another 2 have cracks and the last 2 have detached air sacs. I sealed the hairline cracks with clear nail polish and set them along with the other 2 in the incubator and will not turn on turner for a couple of days. Sellers response was (I am paraphrasing here but you get my drift) sorry about your bad luck file a claim with usps insurance. These eggs were wrapped once in bubble wrap and the sides of the box was lined but there was no other cushion like you usually see like shredded paper or egg cartons etc. to top it all off I can't find any way to leave feedback on that site for the seller. Yes, the postal service can be tough on boxes, but when you ship eggs you should anticipate that and if you are going to charge prices like that I feel the next buyer should be warned. Am I over reacting? I will probably not be doing business on rba anymore. Fool me once...well you know the rest lol.

Ugh! I'm sorry this happened! Can you please tell me what rba is?

 

[ranpmiller]

Rba is rarebreed auctions. It was my first time using them. I have gotten from ebay and it is pretty hit or miss. I guess I expected more from that site because I thought people messing with the rarer stuff would be more experienced.

 

[WendyF]

I would like to think you could safely make that assumption. I am going to receive my first fertile eggs from Meyer next weekend. I am already a bundle of nerves LOL. What did you use to clean the broken egg off the ones you salvaged?

 

[MeepBeep]

What did the outside of the box look like? Were the eggs tightly packed so they didn't move around inside?

With so much damage inside, if the outside of the box looks sound, chances are the seller didn't pack the eggs in tight enough and they were being tossed around inside the box, wrapped or not that is a disaster waiting to happen... The eggs need to be cushioned and held it place, aka if you shake the box nothing should move...

I just got 30+ peafowl eggs delivered today all in one box, I have not candled them yet but there isn't a single sign of damage to any egg... Same with the 8 guinea fowl eggs I go the other day...

And I hate to say it but chances are the USPS will decline to pay out on insurance unless there is obvious and extreme signs of damage to the outside of the box, aka it looks as if it was crushed or dropped hard... If the outside of the box is sound they will likely tell you the sender didn't properly package the item and not pay out...

 

[ranpmiller]

The outside of the box looked fine. One corner was a little bent, but nothing that prepared me for the sight that awaited me. I have definitely gotten worse without any damage to the eggs inside. I just washed them with really warm water, then dunked them into my magic teat dip water I use for milking the goats (1 quart lukewarm water, 2 drops dawn dish soap and 1 half Dixie cup of bleach) and let them dry. I love peafowl, so pretty!p

 

[ranpmiller]

It's hard to tell how tightly they might have been packed at shipping because 2 were completely smashed like someone bashed them on their head at a wild frat party

 

[MeepBeep]

I'm guessing they were packed loose and that was the problem... If you still have the wrapping the seller used it might be worth getting some store eggs and 'recreating' how they were packed, it should be pretty obvious if they were tight or loose...

Either way sorry to hear about the shipping horror, and sorry to hear the seller doesn't seem all that concerned...

 

[roosterhavoc]

We're the eggs just wrapped in bubble wrap and not in any other container within the box? Sounds like the seller of the eggs is just flat out too lazy to pack them correctly. Can't always prevent detached air cells, but that's ridiculous.