Ebay Branded Packing Tape

I never heard it was lacking or I probably would not have ordered 12 rolls. I’ve only used it once, but it seems to be fine. I guess time will tell. I usually do research before a purchase. But I didn’t since it was my free coupon from eBay. I’ll let ya know if it turns out lacking.

Found it to be good tape. Use it frequently and have for a couple of months. So no problems.

I didn’t like it. I used one roll and am selling the rest. It was tearing for me a lot when i was putting it on. Really irritated me.I bought mine last quarter.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by Nancy.

i think it’s a little bit thin than the stuff i buy at walmart, but it worked great for me. helps that it’s (essentially) free!

I use it for taping bubble wrap onto items, just because it’s easier to see than clear tape, and it’s pretty much free. It’s alight quality, but nothing to write home about, IMO.

Hi guys… Here is a copy and paste of an in house analysis I did of the Ebay Tape back in May 2nd, 2016 when the Ebay tape first came out.

copied: “All pressure sensitive materials (decals, tapes, sheets of sticker material for printers, etc] are sold by the MSI [that stands for thousand square inches]. The last order of Duck Tape I got [which is listed here on SL as a source, was 2″x55 yds = 3,960 MSI [thousand sq. inches] per roll x 24 rolls or 95.4 MSI for $62.27 [Tape that Ryanne states she uses]. It is HD [heavy duty at 2.6 mils thick]. It is one and a half mils of plastic base material and 1 mil. of adhesive for a total of 2.5-2.6 mils total. That comes out to a cost to us at $.655 per MSI or approx. $2.60 per roll.

The new “Ebay Tape” is 5.4 MSI per roll x 8 rolls for a total of = 43.20 MSI for $15.99. The Ebay Tape only 2 mils thick instead of 2.6. So it is thinner than HD [heavy duty]. The base material is 1.5 mils thick and only has 1/2 mil of adhesive as compared to the HD tape Ryanne and we use. The cost difference is that the Ebay Tape comes out to $.37 MSI or about 43% less for the Ebay Tape.

But here is the quality difference. The thickness of the two base materials is the same, but the HD tape has a half a mil thicker adhesive to it. That extra adhesive allows it to “grip” better to cardboard surfaces. A thicker material actually oozes down into the irregular / coarser surfaces of cardboard and other porus surfaces and thus grips and holds much better.

So if the Ebay tape is working for you it is cheaper. But it is also technically an inferior product to the thicker adhesive tapes. Actually the best tapes are the nylon reinforced paper tapes that are water activated but are messy to deal with.

So bottom line, The thicker tape is better but costs more the Ebay tape is lesser quality but also is cheaper.

Personally, we use both. The HD tape to seal the tops, bottoms and side seams of our boxes and the Ebay tape for one wide strip across the bottom and top for branding and advertising the Ebay logo and to save a few strips of the HD tape. Trust the Ebay tape or the HD tape in various temperatures, various stress factors, bursting / tensil strength our vote goes to the HD Heavy Duty Duck tape. Don’t forget you can find discounts on the HD tape also.

Good luck with using your tapes.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta.

I just ordered my first eBay tape also, so thanks for the tips. I sure go through a lot of tape!

Got the tape, as well as 100 of the 6x4x4 boxes. This size box is REALLY nice, just send off a John Deere toy and it was perfect. Better than the 7x6x6 USPS ones in this case.