Shipped eggs broken...

[rancher hicks]

Ok folks this is how it should be.

gotta run but you should expect no broken eggs and they should be packaged sufficiently or the seller should not be selling eggs. Bad shipments with broken egg should be reported and the seller revealed. Forwarned is forarmed.

All the best
Rancher

 

[mandyp]

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I'm out money from Cluck_duck_goose too. Some rare eggs. I kept listening to her reassurances that they were coming. Now I'm out my money and the eggs too. To say that I'm upset is an understatement.

I was getting Sicilian Buttercups, Russian Orloffs, and another one that I can't think of at the moment. Seems as though she made quite a bit of money and then ran.

Laurie

I ordered Houdans, naked necks, &easter eggers. same deal. Finally found the sob story email in my junk mail. No answer at the number on the email.. No voicemail either. Really disappointed me too.
I had a similar incident a few years ago on EBay. A SAHM selling cloth diapers. She'd sell a ton, tell people they were made to order, so you had to wait for them. Then when enough people were **** off at her about not getting their diapers, she'd change her profile & start over. Thats bad, too, because people with babies have a stretched budget as it is. I called her on it cause I recognized her work. She vanished then. I suppose she's still out there robbing people blind somewhere.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Ok I have gotten eggs shipped to me in every kind of packing and it doesn't matter if it's bubble wraped, saw dust, paper towel, tissue, egg cartons, plastic bags, newspaper, foam egg holders, double boxed, some kind of material you use for quilts.

I have had good hatches and I have had bad. Some of my worst have been the ones that have all the stuff written on the box.

Just my 2 cents

 

[Megs]

rancher hicks- what an awsome packing job, i just received a egg order worth several hundred dollars packaged almost identically, 2 days in the mail (postal truck/ferry) and every egg was in perfect condition! in the bator now.

OP- Congrats on winning your "query" with ebay! that is excellent. it sure sucks there are so many dishonest people, i couldnt live with myself if i were them, they must have no concience, its sad. I have yet to ship out eggs personally but when i do i will be using packaging very similar to the eggs i have received from others in shipping, and i will also refund for broken eggs or re-send.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Alot of things can affect the hatch and certainly packaging can't guaranteed a successful hatch. However it should not result in "broken" eggs. And yes eggs weren't meant to be shipped, but that doesn't mean they should arrive smashed to smithereens either. There is no excuse for packaging eggs badly. If you pricing doesn't guarantee good packaging then raise the price. I have seen free bubble wrap on Craigs. Every effort should be made to guarantee a successful hatch and on the shippers end that means good packaging.
The pics I posted are from eggs I received. Out of 26 eggs I have 6 birds. Since I only paid for 12 eggs, I'd say I had a good hatch. If you get a 25% hatch from shipped eggs I think that's good.
Shippers there should be no doubt you did your best for your buyer to have a successful hatch. IMO.
In my case I offered to send the packaging back to the seller for reuse.

 

[panner123]

Some shippers do a bad job of packing, most try their best. The P O office does its best to see how they can mess up the shipment nothing there is no recourse. I shipped my sister some BCM eggs awhile ago, no broken eggs, but only 1 made it without being scrambled, it hatched. These eggs were packaged so I (all 250 pounds) could jump up and down on the box and no damage.. From now on I will ship her baby chicks. I set some of the eggs from the same collection and hatched 31 of 33. So we know they were good eggs. The best thing is if you get a bad packaging job, let all your friends know about it so they don't order from that person. Once thier orders drop they might start packaging properly. I for one would use the sellers name.

 

[Julie08]

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I agree the look rotten and since you said they smelled so bad I think they must have been rotten, broken, rotten and infertile........... nice.

 

[Scott]

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Thank you. ;-)

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

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I would go a step further than this: ask the seller how they pack their eggs! I recently got some pheasant eggs from an ebay seller that had good remarks in her (?) feedback. Upon arrival, 1 egg was cracked, another was upside-down in the carton (probably how the other got cracked), there was too much empty space inside the egg carton, allowing the eggs to move around a lot. At day 10, only 3 of the surviving 11 eggs are developing. Another set of 8 eggs I received at the same time from a different seller was packed similarly, though the egg carton was packed full of quilt batting to make sure the eggs did not move...6 of 8 of those are developing. Always ask the seller how they package their shipping eggs, or even tell them how you want them packed.

Just my 2 cents.

I list my packing methods in my auctions for just this reason. No one has mentioned any broken eggs to me and I sure hope they would. If someone gets busted eggs, no matter if it's the fault of the USPS, I'd send them more eggs. They bought eggs to hatch, I want them to HAVE eggs that CAN hatch.

 

[MelissaA]

Scott, can you share with us how you pack? Thanks!