OK all you BrickLinkers, admit it, you have purchased some Lego from someone, and they arrive, and you open the package to be greeted by a really bad smell. Usually its tobacco aroma, but sometimes, who knows what that is!
I find that only the sellers that don't smoke say so, and the ones that do, don't see anything wrong with it. But...oh.. it can be pretty bad. I got an order yesterday, and even the post box smelled. I opened the package and whew, I had to open a window. It was a mixture of smells, tobacco smoke and maybe some sort of cleaner smell...
Well, I took all the parts and put them in a sink full of water and some mild soap and let them soak. By the end of the day, they didn't smell anymore, I got lucky.
Anybody else have any stories to tell?