[quote name='ZombieToast']Not true. If removed from the packaging, it would cost about $2.56 to ship. Even considering the weight of the box and packing peanuts, there is no reason why it should cost more than $4.[/QUOTE]
Where are you getting this $2.56 to ship estimate from? Does that include Delivery Confirmation? What shipping rate is it going? Unless you're shipping it MEDIA(which you can't unless it's a BOOK), then I can't see it being that cheap. Though the cheaper the shipping rate you send something, the longer it takes to arrive, hence the longer it gets beat to shit and bounced around while in transit. Cheapest rate I would ship controllers would be the medium flat rate Priority box(either the long or deep one) and I would ship it IN the packaging, which would give it at least another level of protection. But hey, if you want a non functional controller I'll go find another silver one and ship it to you in a bubble mailer via Media rate. If it gets inspected and shipped back to me, you'll pay for shipping it again and if it arrives dead as a doornail you'll just eat the loss cuz it had no protection en route, right? No? I bet you'd cry to someone on here that I sent you a dead controller, when it was you who wanted it shipped cheap in the first place. Not trying to be 'mean' or a 'douchebag' or start an argument, but if you ship cheap then you get what you pay for.[quote name='audilover']Thats what I was thinking, like how everyone just jumped to conclusion because they thought they were so smart. I wasn't trying to be rude to anyone, I was just being hopeful. I hope after this comment it can go back to the actual topic.[/QUOTE]
I've been shipping shit to people for YEARS, both on here and off. I made mistakes in the past(like sending guides in a misshapen box and having some of them get damaged en route or sending a single guide in a mailer with no padding to protect it and having a mailman cram it into someone's mailbox). But over the years I've learned how to PROPERLY ship stuff and I've learned what is allowed and what is excluded from each shipping rate the USPS provides.