Incredibly the card inside wasn’t damaged, but it was also in a toploader that had sticky tape over the opening. Icing on the cake.
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That sucks though, at least the card wasn’t damaged. Tape saved the day! 
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Ill just leave this here… 
I have mixed feelings with posts and comments of this nature… I mean… The card didn’t get hurt, did it? Doesn’t that mean the packing was sufficient? How should one send singles? I mean I am with you on the no tape thing. I personally fold the packing slip around the TL so that the end is capped by it and the card can’t slide out. Probably switching fully to card savers after my supple of TL’s run out too as a couple card savers thick would easily go on a stamped envelope.
I get maybe once or twice a month where someone from eBay will message me saying the box was banged up or the envelope was folded or the corner was torn etc… Then they get mad when I ask them “well how was the card/item?”. As if I should be held accountable for the damage done to the packing by the delivery company and all the while THE ITEM IS PERFECTLY FINE. They say something along the lines of well something could have happened! Well yeah, I am the seller. If it did happen I would accept a return or refund. It clearly doesn’t happen or if it does happen it is extremely rare. Which is why I continue to send things the way that I send them…
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If I hear one more tape complaint, I’ll personally come to your house and tape every single door shut. Stop being dramatic, Tape on a toploader isn’t bad. If you have so many issues removing it that you’re scared of damaging the card, blame yourself for being too incompetent to remove tape without going into Hulk Mode. 
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The problem is when the card isn’t in a penny sleeve in the top loader and slides up and gets stuck in the tape 
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Wonder if you’d have the same opinion if you purchased three 1st edition Base Set zards like I did, and they arrived in taped toploaders, and one of the zards had slipped upwards and was stuck to the tape…
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I think the greater issue here is what kind of mastermind doesn’t put a card in a penny sleeve before inserting into the top loader 
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SO MANY PEOPLE!!!
I’ve almost seen it all with singles over the past few weeks. I bought a ton from different sellers and everyone has their own style. I’ve had the taped top loaders. I had somebody send two top loaders taped together for stability. I had someone use the invoice to wrap around the top loader. TCA sent the top loader in what I believe is a team bag. Almost everyone had the card in a penny sleeve and top loader. I had one person send the card in just an ultra pro sleeve that they had stuffed 2 extra cards into to make it snug. Luckily all these cards were around $5 or under. I did pay $3 shipping on a $1 card that was inside a top loader, between 2 pieces of cardboard taped together, and shipped in a small bubble mailer.
That makes it a issue of not being sleeved, and not an issue of tape. Not sleeving a card inside a toploader is dubious, even without taping the toploader shut.
Solution to all your problems:
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I use the ultra pro graded card sleeves and a toploader with penny sleeves to ship mine. Never failed for me, but I rarely send in just an envelope.
I second this!
I had a Nidoking shipped to me that managed to slip halfway out of the penny sleeve and then partially out of the top loader. Ended up with a crease in it. Something needs to block the top that won’t damage the card.
Sleeving it upside down really isn’t that hard.
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Card saver 1 semi rigids don’t have this problem. That’s all I use for singles in an envelope <$15 value. Have not had an issue yet🤞
It’s extremely difficult, I haven’t seen a single person do it yet.
never seen anyone on the marble forum complain about this, silly pokemommers.
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