Disappointed...

I always here storys like this, I always ask the seller the way they wrap and etc before I buy.
Nancy is awesome! She has almost 300 some feedback from the new and old feedback system, all 100% positive!!

 

I'm afraid that when you buy shipped eggs, you are gambling. This time you lost.

However, I would have contacted the seller immediately to let her know that eggs were damaged on receipt and that I thought her packaging was inadequate. If nobody ever says anything about it, how is she to know?

I am suspicious that the US Post Office plays rugby with fragile packages. Some sort of passive aggressive anger issues that they have about customers who dare to expect them to work for their salary.

 

I would approach the breeder first...
Thats a LOT of money to have eggs wrapped in tissue paper..
BUT you should have contacted the breeder ASAP when you got the box and they were broken... not sure if they will believe you now.
Tis the game of buying eggs online...

 

I have gotten eggs packed similar. Paper towels around the eggs, then snuggly fit into a carton with additional packing material around the carton. They all arrived in great shape.

I am sorry you are having such horrible luck with them.

 

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yep, from time to time you run into folks that just dont know how to ship.
Always check their feedback, look for comments on their packing ability.
Personally, I ship 1000's of eggs every season, and am a stickler about how I want eggs shipped into me, there are ways that work, and well like you saw, ways that dont
also look at the feed back comments toward cleanliness and professionalism from the seller.

If a private sell, ask, dont be scraed too, I always do. Ask them how old they are, how they pack (if not to your liking tell them how you would prefer it, etc)
Most will accomadate you, others arent so friendly, pass on them if needed.

But in the end, yes once shipped, no seller hardly ever refunds for eggs, that's just the name of the game. The buyer takes on the gamble of doing to basically try to get birds way cheaper than buying chicks or started stock. Now a lot of the time, when folks dont get a 80% plus hatch they want a refund, well the buyers loss will not be eaten by the breeder. They werent gambling, they were offering a chance at cheaper versions of getting stock to the buyer. So it's one of those situations where postal damage cant be controled on a fragile and perishable item.

Now in this case, yes sending poorly packaged eggs and mostly DIRTY eggs!! And they are $100, yes I would have had to say something right off to them. I never do anyone that way myself, and would expect the same if I were the buyer, especially on high end stock.
We do it for the $10 a dozne stuff just like we do for the $150 a dozen stuff...so yes you had grounds to be ill about the quality of the eggs and the mannor in which they were sent.
Pretty much though, it's going to be a live and learn deal though.
The auction sites nor Paypal will honor anything on hatching eggs as they are both perishable, fragile, and just an egg, the buyer's skill is required in incubation to turn the egg to a chick not the seller, at least this is the way they look at it

 

With some eggs, like Duck eggs, you should expect some dirtiness. It doesn't really matter, you can put a dirty egg in the incubator and get great results. Now bad packing, that's another story.