I've never had fabric purchased online ripped, but I wish the seller of a recent purchase I made from eBay had done it. The fabric had several rows of 6" elephants and I was only able to use a single row from the center because it had been cut so crooked. For me, the trouble with ripped fabric is that when prewashing one has to zig-zag all of the edges or there's a big tangled mess of thread at the edges.