eBay chatboard archive: Jun-11-07 to Jun-17-07 week

Posted by xzephyr   ( 981 ) on Jun-17-07 at 23:39:49 PDT   Listings
NOIP

Talking about inflation reducing the value of 2c (or any other) modern denominated stamps, here in the UK you can buy the 1st class and 2nd class stamps, knowing that they will always pay the postage for those items in the future. I buy them by the 100 and since I bought the last lot both postages have gone up 3 or 4p. At least they are keeping pace with inflation! I am however putting all the Machins and commemoratives with stated value on letters and parcels as quick as I can!!

Colin the astute.

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1351 ) on Jun-17-07 at 19:16:51 PDT   Listings

Jim L.

member
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-17-07 at 18:53:53 PDT   Listings
OOps, missed a snipe.

Forgot I changed times zones.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8323 ) on Jun-17-07 at 18:01:59 PDT   Listings
The Sydney Exhibition closed last night and was 101% successful in almost every aspect. There was heavy rain during most of the time which may have improved the attendances which was very high from starting time to the the end of the show. The various meetings I managed to attend went well and were well attended. I didn't manage to see all the dealers but went to the ones I knew would have material in my line. I only purchased one item which will be added to my collection when it returns from St. Petersburgh in a few weeks. It will eman rewriting that section but I can only afford 1/2 page but may have to make it a full page,

http://storesense.neoverve.com/compustamp.com/-strse-4069/Tonga-1896-Nukualofa-REG/Detail.bok

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-17-07 at 17:53:52 PDT   Listings
Ohmigod!!! Disney porno for sale on eBay!!!

☺

Jim
Posted by oldusstamps   ( 39 ) on Jun-17-07 at 16:55:01 PDT   Listings
Jaywild: I agree with you as far as the entertainment value of owning a stamp is concerned.Although My set,is long sold,but I did enjoy it for the time I owned it.

I was referring strictly to the investment aspect of Philatlely. I believe that the hobby aspect should be seperate from the investment considerations. I also believe that Philately should be primarilly a hobby, and if someone makes a profit, on this hobby, so be it.Too many folk's think that Stamps are an automatic Goldmine.

You are absolutely correct about how much e-Bay has influenced the prices of collectibles during the last 10 years. There are some who pooh-pooh e-Bay as just a flea market, but I believe as time goes by, it will become the market setting venue for much of Philately and other Collectibles. There will be some exceptions, as far as the super valuable items, and the really large valuable collections that primarialy go to Public Auctions.

From my 6 years of spending literally thousands of hours cruising e-Bay Stamps, I do believe that one can buy the majority of Stamps, for less on the Bay than they can, from other Stamp venues.Of course like everything else in life there are always some exceptions.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-17-07 at 16:53:12 PDT   Listings
She is actually an impersonation of Medea!
(I am sure you saw Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema flick on the subject, with an incredible Maria Callas)
The miserable thumb of Euripides shaking, because of the incredible resemblance and of the recurrencies, I am starting a new job,

All the best,
Paolo

Everything Can be reconducted To Stamp Collecting!
Amazing, isn't it!
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-17-07 at 16:38:44 PDT   Listings
ehm... "Fritz-Billig"... I meant to write Billig-Stiedl.
It appears, my friend, that these books are still actual.
Everybody's so busy with postal rates, routes, rare combinations of frankings that the most obvious can pass in oblivion.
As I said, I have no respect whatsoever for the actual Sassone experts, busy-greedy to make money out of bargains, or other people's ignorance, counting on the fact that collecting will never die.
By doing so, being superficial and attached to the wallet, they are actually contributing to the death of stamp collecting. I can't tolerate that... therefore my rant!

Good continuation, Paolo (impersonating my favorite Kate Bush, Babooshka, for the occasion)

Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-17-07 at 16:30:10 PDT   Listings
oldusstamps… Two factors were working against you in regards to the failure of your Pan-Am set to appreciate. First, you bought from a dealer, and second, the price of such a set now is determined by what it gets on eBay. In the end you came out poorly, but you certainly didn’t lose very much on the deal. If you have enjoyed those stamps in the meantime then certainly that’s worth $11!

I agree with your statement that the top 5% in philately has done very nicely recently. That’s why I suggested to the person who wanted to invest in current 2¢ stamps that he educate himself as to what is worth spending money on and then spending an appreciable amount. Anyone hoarding 2¢ stamps might congratulated himself on the minimal outlay (40¢ a sheet) but unless he lives to the age of 500 they will still be worth 2¢ apiece when he dies.

Jim
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-17-07 at 16:23:54 PDT   Listings
Bill B. (jackstay79),
Thank you and I cannot but try to convey my entire admiration and respect for you being actually a real fighter pilot, in war times!

I use often your Fritz-Billig books! Taht is another feature that makes you special: kindness!

I am sure there will be a final reward for it!

My special best wishes for you and yours,
Paolo
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-17-07 at 16:16:28 PDT   Listings
Jim, Jeff, Roger

Makes you wonder how some people ever manage to sell anything.
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-17-07 at 15:59:18 PDT   Listings
Jeff S… “She has more chins than the Chinese phone book”—said by Joan Rivers of Elizabeth Taylor when she was very fat. On the same album Joan refers to a man who is “so dumb he can’t count to 21 standing naked.”

That antagonizing seller hasn’t hit a hundred feedbacks yet and already has two negatives, the most recent of which starts out “pig of a seller”. I guess that presents enough of a picture…

Perhaps eBay will send him to “re-education camp”, like the Communists used to do with their recalcitrant peasants. (Anybody remember Communism?)

☺

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-17-07 at 15:19:24 PDT   Listings
prbtxPaul
What you have sounds to me like the Telephone Coins (pre-phone card days) I had a few in a collection once from various countries, don't remember if one was Germany.
If you can scan it and link here to the scan, (see the big yellow box below for directions how to) I'm sure some of our German experts will take a look.
Linda
off to work!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 930 ) on Jun-17-07 at 15:01:30 PDT   Listings
prbtx, I have no idea and it doesn't sound like something the averege German stamp collector would know about either, probably something used by the German Post. The term Deutsche Post was used on stamps both during the occupation period (up to 1949) and for the first few months by both BRD and DDR, even longer in West Berlin. So it could be from anywhere in Germany from the end of the war until the early 50's.

Perhaps a small emblem attached to mailboxes or uniforms or whatever?
Posted by oldusstamps   ( 39 ) on Jun-17-07 at 14:44:02 PDT   Listings
Investing in Stamps: The top 5% or so of the best in Philately have increased at a very nice rate. Even beating inflation. But many of the rest of them really have not done so well. Here is one such example: I purchased a nice used set of USA 1901 Pan-American Set Used for $11.00 in 1962. This was a lot of $ for a 13 yr.old at that time.

If you search the "completed" sales on e-bay for a similar set you will find that they are bringing about the same $ as I paid in 1962 money!If you factor in inflation this set has dropped significantly in Value. I am aware that if I had purchased a superb mint NH set,I would have fared much better.I also realize that Postal History has done very well in that time frame.

I am wondering if other posters on here have had the same kind of result's on their less than "Gem" material.
Posted by prbtxseguin   ( 294 ) on Jun-17-07 at 14:09:21 PDT   Listings
Hi, I hope someone may know about German stamps and such. I found a metal disc in with a bunch of 1940's and 50's german coins. About the size of a nickel, it has Deutsche Post on one side and two grooves on the back. Between the two grooves is what looks like a dumbbell. Is it part of a seal that hasn't been leaded? Oh yeah, may be made of zinc or something other than brass, aluminum or steel. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Paul
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3669 ) on Jun-17-07 at 13:54:58 PDT   Listings

Who was it who said about someone else, She has more chins than a Chinese phone book?
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3669 ) on Jun-17-07 at 13:53:01 PDT   Listings
Roger - how much for a full sheet of your 2-cents worth. I think they might be worth holding to and reselling for maybe 3.5 cents in a decade or so. What IS the current rate of inflation anyway??

grins to all, Jeff

Posted by mazmouzy   ( 239 ) on Jun-17-07 at 12:32:05 PDT   Listings
Egyptian Postcards
==================
Why collecting Egyptian postcards????
Egyptian postcards have a long history of beauty, very beautiful views, very famous publishers worlwide and the important thing that you hardly find it day after day due to low published quantities specially old and midperiod postcards.

Most Egyptian postcard collectors don,t know that even mid period postcards (the period from 1956 to 1982 ) is not available easly and some of them is becoming rare specially what are published by the very very very famous publishers LEHNERT & LANDROCK .
When we talk about Egyptian postcard we must not forget HOTELS POSTCARDS becuse day after day it become rarer and rarer.
Till I meet you next time.
Bye

Moataz Abbas
From Egypt
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-17-07 at 12:04:25 PDT   Listings
Jeff -

If you collect creased postcards, it's a winner. I wonder if he also folds the mailing envelope prior to putting it in the mail box for an extra $3.75?

An eBay winner for sure.
When I see auction pages like that I wonder what the people are like in person and want to know more about them. If I was a psychologist, eBay is THE place to hang out. I'd publish case studies of eBay sellers and sell the results to eBay Marketing, possibility of profit, or a vice-presidency at Meg's table.

Roger
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-17-07 at 11:55:28 PDT   Listings
ugotta -

Why stay with 2¢ stamps? Diversify and buy 6¢, 10¢, 12¢, and 16¢ stamps because without a doubt the post office will, when increasing the rates, go up to a prime number. You can start buying now and corner the market in these values. This move will increase your profits x3, x5, or x8. Why bother with 2¢ stamps? The future is predictable and most people don't have 16¢ stamps around for that incrrease to 57¢. I've figured this all out and I'm on my way to making tons of money, sort of the Walmart philosophy. I'm going to sell them all in small packets to Chinese collectors. I heard on the radio that the Chinese government is encouraging children to make their surname a combination of both mother and father. Within one generation that will double the number of surnames in China. My memory is not perfeect, but I think there are more than 100 million Zhang, and Lee is another popular name. You can sell to the rest, I want to have a simple mailing list. Just think address your mail to Mr Zhang, or Resident, and you'll be correct most of the time!

My 2¢ worth
Roger
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3669 ) on Jun-17-07 at 11:53:29 PDT   Listings

Let's play How many ways of alienating a prospective customer can you spot?

All he needs to complete the package is a PowerSeller logo.

Jeff
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-17-07 at 10:00:09 PDT   Listings
Philatelic humor of the day… I got a good laugh out of this cover, bearing a stamp featuring New York governor Al Smith (and one-time nominee for President) sandwiched between “Trade” and “Mark”, the Smith Brothers of cough-drop fame.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:49:03 PDT   Listings
ugotta… Any source you find that will give you quantities issued of any recent low denomination stamp will verify that they are all produced in the millions upon millions. In the early 1940s the US issued three FOR DEFENSE stamps—a 1¢, a 2¢, and a 3¢. Now, almost seventy years later, you can’t give those stamps away they are still so common.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:39:53 PDT   Listings
ugotta… Well, let’s look at your Spiderman comic book example. If you sold a comic for $4.50 that cost you perhaps 65¢ new, you’ve earned a little under $4. Multiply by 17, the number you’ve sold, and your take is $68. Subtracting overhead and miscellaneous expenses, you made maybe $40 over 15-20 years’ time.

The trouble is, you can’t extrapolate those meager earnings by enlarging the scale, because then what begins to work against you is that if you have a saturated market. If you have a thousand of them to sell, nobody’s going to be paying $4.50 a copy for them. The more you have for sale, the less scarce they are, and the less they will command in price. If you have a thousand of the issues on hand that sold for $4.50, the market for them would instantly evaporate, and you’d get more selling them by the ton to a paper recycler.

There is money to be made in buying and selling stamps, but not by buying any recent issues, or any that were made in the past 70 years. With enough education (which means laying out hundreds of dollars for reference material) and resources (first rule of capitalism: you’ve got to have money to make money) you can, in time, learn enough to invest successfully in stamps. But it will be a fulltime job, and frankly you’d be better off in a decent paying job. Stamp investing doesn’t come with health insurance or a pension plan.

Jim
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:22:54 PDT   Listings
Is there a referential source..where the volumes of issues are published? I appreciate that there are low denominations, "in reserve"..but the cost to produce vs. revenues collected..is so close..that I don't think that there is a glut of them..the way there would be of 41s.
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:17:59 PDT   Listings
ugotta… The 2¢ stamps were not issued just to add to 39¢ stamps to make up the new rate. There are currently 1¢ stamps, 2¢ stamps, 3¢ stamps, 5¢ stamps etc. etc. in USPS inventory, all of which are being made in the millions upon millions. Even in the distant future, after the first class rate is up to 87¢ to mail a one ounce letter, the USPS will still be making 2¢ stamps.

Sadly, there will be only a brief market for any “collectible” stamp or stamp series offered by USPS. Many people are lured into buying masses of recent issues, such as Celebrate the Century and the new Star Wars stamps, all of which are being hoarded in the millions in the gleeful hope that 50 years down the road they will be worth a fortune. This buy-and-hoard has been going on since the Post Office issued the Columbian series of 1893. Stamp dealers bought them feverishly, until they all had huge inventories of them, only to discover that so many had been hoarded that there was no market for them whatever, so by the 1920s they were being used indiscriminately just to get rid of them. Only after almost 100 years had passed since their issuance did the value of the Columbians take off, and really only for the very high values. You plan to be around in a hundred years? Then buy the highest denomination stamps you can afford, in bulk, then sit back and get comfy. You’ve got a long wait ahead of you!

☺

Jim
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:12:39 PDT   Listings
Matt, I did'nt suggest buying for "future tack-ons"..just using them, if, indeed, they DON't ever appreciate..that's all.
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:09:53 PDT   Listings
People..I DO respect the advice..and do not want to sound belligerent. I faced the same negativity...regarding whether or not it was a PRIME time to sell 15-25yo Spiderman comics..due to the movie tie-in. I was FLAMED.."collectors" telling me that my "commons" should be relegated to a .50 bin..etc. Well, within the last 2 months..I have sold 17 of these..in my small town , brick and mortar shop..realing an average of $4.50/per.I am not aiming toward the HARDCORE collector, in my aspirations..at all. Just those who think that the subject matter is interesting and beautiful.So..I truly hope that collectors don't bother with them..and they are slapped on envelopes. Face it..the PO HATES spending the revenue on producing something with two cents value....I imagine that it cost them about 1/2 cent per..to produce them..the same as pricier ones. Do the math. I'm sure that production will increase as soon as sales slow down...
Posted by keleofa   ( 3470 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:08:58 PDT   Listings
Ugotta,

No, tacking on in the future will not be a good investment. Yes, those stamps will always be values at 2c but adjust for inflation. If you bought sheets of 3c stamps in the early 1940s and held them until the late 1960s when postage was 6c you could add 2ea 3 centers to make 6c. You would have lost big time when adjusted for inflation.

Also, buying the Forever Stamp is probably not a good investment, either.

Now we're up to 41c. It takes a lot of small denomination stamps to make up that rate. If you wait 10 years and buy current 2c stamps for odd postage you will be paying in future dollars, which adjusted for inflation will be a better deal than tying up current dollars for the next few years.

Also, you could go a stamp bourse and buy discount postage (either now or in the future).

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3470 ) on Jun-17-07 at 09:02:43 PDT   Listings
Ugotta,

You might be right and 3 years isn't too long to wait. Do some research on selling prices of similar items issued recently. There are some good items such as the Submarine booklet. Good luck and report back to us the results!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-17-07 at 08:59:11 PDT   Listings
must= most here
coffee is still dripping.....yawn
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-17-07 at 08:59:01 PDT   Listings
How , or why bother LOSING? You could just tack them onto a few things that needed an odd amount of postage, right?
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-17-07 at 08:56:56 PDT   Listings
Ugottabidda You will be lucky to get 2 cents out of them in 40 years. Of course you don't need to believe us, must have been collecting for longer than that. The biggest farce the Post office every put on the public was getting people to collect stamps for investment. Up until a couple years ago you were lucky to get 2 cents for 60 year old 3 cent stamps in sheets.
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-17-07 at 08:42:33 PDT   Listings
I think that these 2 cent stamp have an added edge. The subject matter being Navajo jewelry. That may empower them as "crossovers". I don't think that it would take until 2050, to turn a sheet of 40.from .80 to $3.00...over 400% return. I say 3 yrs.
Posted by paperhistory   ( 1984 ) on Jun-17-07 at 08:22:03 PDT   Listings
david: no outright philatelic gifts here, but my wife is letting me spend some time in the stamp room today. I suppose that counts!
Posted by keleofa   ( 3470 ) on Jun-17-07 at 07:54:46 PDT   Listings
Ugotta,

Look at Scott # 2521, the (4c) "Use This Stamp With 25c Equivalent to F Stamp". That was one of the more bizarre stamps issued. Issued in 1991, it is not worth any more than any other stamp of the period.

Your logic is correct that a 100% profit is a good thing but look at dollars, too. If you are thinking about $500 worth of 2c stamps as an investment I would put those funds into a classic VF stamp or cover. How much storage space is needed for $500 worth of 2c panes at 40c a pane? A lot.

At my stamp club people sell panes of 3c, 4c, 5c stamps that are 40-60 years old for 75% of FACE value. Not a good investment.

Also, remember that value is a balance between Supply and Demand. Maybe you are correct that the 2c will be in scarce supply by 2050, but will there be any demand?

But it is an interesting idea to think about. Keep the ideas coming!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by karlhh   ( 1015 ) on Jun-17-07 at 07:53:24 PDT   Listings
claghorn1p , H.E. Pierce started up a small match company in Chicago in 1867. He took one delivery of his private die stamps in March of that year, 52,500 copies on old paper. A balance of 206,700 were destroyed as obsolete. The founder said that there was no money to be made in the company, so it was closed.

There are fewer than 25 of the Pierce stamps known, and some 75% of these are faulty
Posted by djs127   ( 591 ) on Jun-17-07 at 07:43:35 PDT   Listings
Happy Fathers day to all Fathers on this board!
Did anyone get any stamp related gifts today?
My cards and gifts will be given when my youngest son comes home from a morning Bar Mitzvah!
David Snyder
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-17-07 at 07:06:38 PDT   Listings
I do believe you missed my point, almost entirely. The two center(WHEN that was the postage requirement),would have stretched into the BILLIONS..for the duration of their necessity. What I'm saying ,is..it probably isn't as cost effective...making these "add-ons".Right? When the PO is confident that the 39 centers are drying up..I'll bet production of these 2 centers nearly grinds to a screeching halt.I'm sure that the production numbers of them are about 1/8 of the 41 centers and "forevers". While people are actually USING the "add-ons"...as to not "waste" the 39 centers...is'nt it a good prospect.And what's wrong with a 100% return, in the event that they double?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-17-07 at 06:48:38 PDT   Listings
Bill C

I don't think it's a real one.
Though probably modelled after Etna.
Quite definitely not a picture of downtown Chicago.
A pretty rare revenue (less than 35).
If yo have a spare, I'll happily add it to my collection. :-)
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-17-07 at 06:39:12 PDT   Listings
IOmoon Jim which volcano is this?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-17-07 at 06:31:10 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

How about Tigger, instead?
Posted by bjornmu   ( 930 ) on Jun-17-07 at 02:29:06 PDT   Listings
IO Jim, shouldn't that be spelled TYGER? I can't read it without hearing the music by Tangerine Dream, from the album "TYGER", 1987. One of only two TD albums that actually have lyrics, but on this one they had the good sense of not trying to write their own. :-)
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-17-07 at 02:14:05 PDT   Listings
D2 The 2 fake Niger have been removed/cancelled or whatever.
Peter
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1351 ) on Jun-17-07 at 02:05:10 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all



Jim L.

member
Posted by billsey   ( 847 ) on Jun-16-07 at 23:13:17 PDT   Listings
Actually (re: 2¢ stamps) the 2¢ stamps issued when the postage rate for a letter was 2¢ are just now beginning to be worth more than face value. If the 2¢ stamps issued now take that long, you'll have to hold them for close to seventy years. :-)

[We've got a load of 2¢ commemoratives and definitives we're wading through for this fall's OSS Auction, so I know of what I speak..]
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-16-07 at 20:07:37 PDT   Listings
ugottabidda.. ok, so realistically, even if they DOUBLE in value, how many millions are you going to make?
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-16-07 at 19:56:27 PDT   Listings
I think I meant 2 cent SHEETS
Posted by ugottabidda   ( 428 ) on Jun-16-07 at 19:48:20 PDT   Listings
I was wondering if 2 cent stamp blocks are worth investing in. I understand that they are add-ons for the remaining 39 cent stamps in circulation..and are probably not produced in the same quantity as other postage..Does it pay to horde?
Posted by jackstay79   ( 0 ) on Jun-16-07 at 19:43:59 PDT   Listings
OH, Paolo, my very good friend, I would recognize you from any angle, even from the back. I'm OK, surviving. Keep up the good work.

Bill B.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3669 ) on Jun-16-07 at 19:26:02 PDT   Listings

IO or in more simple terms (hope the spacing comes out, I just copied and pasted)

Tiger Rag

Hold that tiger
Hold that tiger
Hold that tiger
Hold that tiger
Hold that tiger
Hold that tiger
Hold that tiger

Where's that tiger?
Where's that tiger?
Where's that tiger?
Where's that tiger?
Where's that tiger?
Where's that tiger?
Where's that tiger?

For our international friends it is actually a song.

Jeff
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-16-07 at 18:58:48 PDT   Listings
There you go again, with the bold!

Somewhere doen there, I meant to write 'bald' rather than 'bold'!

Good continuation!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-16-07 at 18:57:24 PDT   Listings
Good day all!

Jim (Jaywild)! :-)
Thanks for looking through those pictures, but you confused me with the real "chief inspector" (chief, ad honorem! -- in a while he will be "der kommissar" ;-)), my dear friend Siska who collects Israel and is interested in anything related to it! (this is not a plotted political add of mine. We differ, sometimes, but we are and will remain good friends!).

Bill S. and Bill B.,
You both got the captions of me alright.
Many thanks for taking the time!
The stars fall -- get born, shine and, eventually, if a critical mass is reached, can collapse, or implode, if you wish-- just like my f. hair! LOL
Think Berlusconi -- just to keep it Italian related -- also had a similar problem, but the giant buckeroo can make a difference.

Bill B.,
I was by myself at Verona.
Michelle has an allergy for stamps, philately and anything related. We solve the apparently unsolvable problem naturally... only when I feel like.
I hope all is fine with you, Bill!
I knew a very enthusiastic guy, very young, just 17, back at my place, who wants to join the militar aeronautical academy.
It was simple for me to make him dream, and, why, not, learn (especially about phisics) and wish to speak to me (this kind of made me embarrassed, but not so much). I have an acquaintance of mine who's a pilot of the it. Air Force; he even made it to 'top gun' about 15 years ago (by U.S. standards, AFAIK --- I can communicate the name in private).
I tried to get the two fellows in touch, by means of an appointment.
I will know the result when I go back in July.

All the best,
Paolo
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1351 ) on Jun-16-07 at 18:45:14 PDT   Listings

Jim L.

member
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-16-07 at 18:28:41 PDT   Listings
I couldn't resist this.
Ruby quite definitely needs staff with some modicom of intelligence.

TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies 5
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 10
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp 15
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee? 20

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-16-07 at 17:50:13 PDT   Listings
ruff idea... $9.99 is always a good figure!
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-16-07 at 17:44:06 PDT   Listings
D2 I wonder how manyboard members could explain the realization on this item?
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-16-07 at 17:39:59 PDT   Listings
Anne… I can only imagine what stupid, useless innovations eBay is going to come up with to boost their growth figures. The “total users” figure is a complete joke. I would bet there are a minimum 5 times as many registered users as there are actual users, probably even more. If one establishes an account then never uses it, or doesn’t use it for years and years, it doesn’t go away, it remains a valid “user”. Look how many Stephen Darori created in just a few days this week, all representing only one person.

eBay is following typical company procedure these days, which means their eyes are only on the price of their stock, which will increase only on the basis of “growth”, and so the entire focus of the company is monkeying with this and that, that and this in order to wring another cent of earnings per share for the quarterly report. The overall health of the company be damned—look what happened to Sunbeam starting several years ago for a typical example. There has never been a more insane time in the history of business, American or otherwise.

Jim
Posted by keleofa   ( 3470 ) on Jun-16-07 at 17:26:30 PDT   Listings
Regency-Superior

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3470 ) on Jun-16-07 at 17:21:08 PDT   Listings
Adwicko,

re: Sweden

There's no way to know. Could be worth millions. If it is all common stamps in poor condition and tremendous duplication, it may not be even worth the shipping costs. Always best to inspect the material in person, or bid really really low!

To find any Seller, go to Advanced Searches and do a search by Seller

Matt in Arizona
Posted by adwicko   ( 13 ) on Jun-16-07 at 17:15:22 PDT   Listings
Correction, from 1850-1940..
Posted by adwicko   ( 13 ) on Jun-16-07 at 17:09:13 PDT   Listings
Any1 got a ruff idea on how much two large moving cartons of swedish stamps from 1910-1940 could be worth?
Posted by drainbow2   ( 666 ) on Jun-16-07 at 16:49:11 PDT   Listings
How do you find Regency Superior Stamp (live auction on ebay) Thanks Dwight
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-16-07 at 14:05:28 PDT   Listings
Paul -
Be sure to add:
"This lot will only be offered once. I reserve the right to withdraw the lot if there are no bids before 24 hours of closing. Bid early to win this lot. I don't like snipers."

Roger
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-16-07 at 14:03:49 PDT   Listings
Anne Nice line, don't worry about the spelling that is a very common error, I include that variation in my advanced search. Ruby negatives/neutrals have started to climb a lot over the past 6 months guess they are too big to care.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-16-07 at 13:31:19 PDT   Listings
ROGER I don't think I could commit fraud,but the use of liberal advertising wording could make me a lot of money using words like ........dusty old lot ,very early Queen Elizabeth material,old yellow glassines, and uncheck missonary lots, are some of the words which guarentees a look and someone thinking there getting something of value . Why I even was going to say that the lot contains Iron Curtain material that is rarely found at stamp exhibitions and most serious collectors are missing .Hey a few right words with out lying will get bidders ....paul
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-16-07 at 13:20:02 PDT   Listings
Sorry, that's been done with NARU results.
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-16-07 at 13:19:11 PDT   Listings
Paul -
I think if you check the "stamps" details you're likely to discover they are discussing rubber stamps. People buy rubber stamps and decorate everything, a real crafter will spend big bucks for a unique stamp.
)'>)
Roger

Then again you could photocopy a rare cancel, have a rubber stamp made of it, then be creative and sell in the real Stamps category.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-16-07 at 13:03:12 PDT   Listings
E-BAY future expansion to start soon There was a full page ad in the major local paper about a free seminar to become a millionaire .

It was a ad to come to a free class and learn how to become a E-BAY seller .They were a group that can set you up to retire early and watch the money roll in .One of the sections they were telling people were they could become instant millionaires was STAMPS. Now I like that because it gives me a opportunity to become a supplier to all those future stamp selling millionaires .Maybe I could supply worldwide stamps to them by the box load at a reasonible price like 50% off catalog for rare hard to find stuff called packet material......he he he ,they will run out of money before I sell off what I got at work, up on the shelves in the wharehouse were I park my trucks ....he he he were talking about thousands of buyers{future e-bay sellers} throwing money in my direction >

This is going to get interesting .....paul

Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-16-07 at 12:48:49 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
On viewing the Nyassaland stamps and the sellers reputation for misidentified auctions, my guess is the animal represented is a cheetyah.

Roger (Well I think its funny!)
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-16-07 at 12:45:02 PDT   Listings
is-in
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-16-07 at 12:44:04 PDT   Listings
Anne That is pretty pitiful. methinks Meg is way over her head.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-16-07 at 12:38:49 PDT   Listings
LEOPARD not a tiger ---- gee even a kid from Chicago knows the differance
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Jun-16-07 at 11:44:55 PDT   Listings
Nyassaland=Nyasaland. I don't think I'd win the Great American Spelling Bee.
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Jun-16-07 at 11:43:49 PDT   Listings
Afternoon/evening/morning from a sunny and warm NJ.

greenwave: Rubystamps has it exactly right. Those stamps depict the rare Nyassaland spotted tiger, once thought to be a mythological creature. The stamps were issued in celebration when a Great White Hunter announced that he had seen a group of them at a local watering hole. Skeptics questioned just what local watering hole he had seen them at, but the Nyassaland postal agency issued the stamps anyway. However, because they were issued in haste that old plates depicting the leopard were used. (Remember the old saying, "close enough for government work?") Subtle differences of marketing distinguish the two issues, and it takes a true expert to tell the difference between them. Ruby obviously has such an expert on staff.

In other news, CNN has this article about ebay:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/15/ebay.middleage.ap/index.html

Interesting comment about category managers.


Anne
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-16-07 at 09:30:36 PDT   Listings
Further confirmation that Ruby have lost the plot, tigers in Nyasaland, not aware they ever made it to Africa!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NYASALAND-Sg-114-122-GV-Tiger-CV-24-47_W0QQitemZ320127860936QQihZ011QQcategoryZ263QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Peter
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Jun-16-07 at 07:55:36 PDT   Listings
Greetings to you all

http://www.mendelbrot.net/mbegin/ME.htm
Michel
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Posted by cjs555   ( 1826 ) on Jun-16-07 at 07:17:31 PDT   Listings
Howdy! Yo Y'all! HEY, awesome article about the WW2 Navajo Code Talkers. Iwo Jima (and other battles) would not have been taken without them. Navajo Code Talkers to be featured on postage stamp. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070615/us_nm/usa_native_codetalkers_dc
Posted by jackstay79   ( 0 ) on Jun-16-07 at 06:19:34 PDT   Listings
billsey--I missed that one, and it's almost full face of Paolo. His receding hairline is unmistakeable. lol. Thanks for showing me.

Bill B.

Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-16-07 at 06:14:44 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

I think if Ruby responded to all the emails they get for misdescribed auctions, they'd never get anything listed.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 930 ) on Jun-16-07 at 05:48:26 PDT   Listings
Twice lately, I have tried to tell Ruby they have listed an item with a completely wrong picture (you don't need to be a stamp colector to see that it's wrong). They recently listed it for the third time, still with the wrong picture...

IF they manage to correct the picture next time, THEN I'm going to tell them that what they claim to have is something that collectors now generally agree does not exist: a 13-bar grid cancel on Norway #1.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3669 ) on Jun-16-07 at 05:13:18 PDT   Listings

If there is any question that the listers at Ruby Stamps don't have a clue what they are doing then check this lot out.

And its not the only one like it.

Jeff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3669 ) on Jun-16-07 at 04:52:19 PDT   Listings

dcderoo

To add a bit of Texas connection to the Canadian RAF pilots, there were 3 training fields in the Fort Worth area, Hicks, Talafero, and another whose name eludes me at the moment (perhaps Benbrook).

Philatelic souvenirs (mail) from the Canadian pilot trainees is highly sought by Canadian Military collectors. I once had 2 unused real photo postcards of the Benbrook location. One with the camp and field covered in snow, and another an open-cockpit trainer taking off the snow-covered grounds.

There is a section in Greenwood Cemetery in Fort Worth wherein lie the remains of several who did not make it. It has a special marker in their dedication.

Jeff
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-16-07 at 02:47:41 PDT   Listings
Knud You could try posting the Rhodesia perfin on the Rhodesia Study Circle site. I am a member of RSC and have just received their journal this morning so know there are some specialists in this area.
http://www.rhodesianstudycircle.org.uk/phpBB2/

cheers
Peter
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-16-07 at 02:28:35 PDT   Listings
Hello Morris. you will need to sort your stamps in to countries and sets using a catalogue (Stanley Gibbons is good for All World, or just for British Commonwealth), then price them, scan them and list on ebay. Usually, most stamps sell for a small percentage of their catalogue value.
You can scroll back and read all the links in the BIG YELLOW BOX, Posted here on the board every day for more information. Good luck


thanks Bjorn just what I needed to know, much appreciated.

Linda
Posted by morrisseb   ( 0 )   on Jun-16-07 at 01:46:40 PDT   Listings
Hi frends i new to this community i dont know how to buy or sell stamps i have got many old stamps pls any can guide me how to do so i will be very greatful
Posted by bjornmu   ( 930 ) on Jun-16-07 at 00:44:53 PDT   Listings
Linda, most likely for parcels. Those were indeed buses on rails, as explained here (In Danish) where some stamps from this line are shown. Also, someone has the 3,30 on 120 øre in 5-stripe for sale for a bit under $3.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-15-07 at 23:55:20 PDT   Listings
Thanks Paul and Bjorn, yes the Lyngby - Naerum is a light rail system so that fits, they must have had a local 'mail' delivery system of some sort I guess, but I can't find a reference to it. Im sure they are too elaborate (and perforated and gummed) to just be 'bus tickets!'
Posted by bjornmu   ( 930 ) on Jun-15-07 at 23:49:59 PDT   Listings
Linda, Paul is right, Jernbane means railway but I must say that looks like a bus. OTOH, the lines on the left look like railway tracks.
Posted by billsey   ( 847 ) on Jun-15-07 at 22:26:27 PDT   Listings
Bill B., try this one.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-15-07 at 20:48:20 PDT   Listings
MINI-LINDY----Its some kind of railroad revenue stamp used between the two cities of Lyngby and Naerum, the possibility that the rail company also runs a bus line between those cities .....paul
Posted by jackstay79   ( 0 ) on Jun-15-07 at 19:29:28 PDT   Listings
I neglected to consider the time in the Netherlands. It's 0430 there. No use asking him questions tonight.

Bill B.
Posted by jackstay79   ( 0 ) on Jun-15-07 at 19:14:11 PDT   Listings
Bbillsey----You got him, Bill. I couldn't see the other one Paolo said he was in. Must have been too far away.

Paolo, was Michele with you?
Posted by billsey   ( 847 ) on Jun-15-07 at 18:24:37 PDT   Listings
Paolo, I assume you are on the right?

It seems to me that when I see pictures taken at shows in the US, they tend to show groups of collectors gathered around a dealer's display. Those pictures Paolo shared from Italy seems to mostly be pictures of collectors gathered around the dinner table. I think I'd like the Italian shows better. :-)
Posted by kgvi   ( 0 ) on Jun-15-07 at 18:17:07 PDT   Listings
dbenson, thanks for the correction.
Besides IDing an Edward rather than a George, I even left one "I" off.
I knew enough that my (wrong) guess should have been KEVII.
But that's all moot. KGV it is.

nomad55, I'll try and put together an "after action" report.
Cameras not allowed so no pictures.

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-15-07 at 18:12:48 PDT   Listings
Knud, or anyone else. Any idea what this stamp is for? It has been uprated from 1.20 to 1.25 Ore, I know its not postal. the word RAYNHOLM is printed in the grass ares. It was in a small collection of Poster Stamps / Cinderellas I purchased last weekend. I have a strip of ten but dont know how to describe them.
Thank you,Linda
Posted by nomad55   ( 897 ) on Jun-15-07 at 18:06:32 PDT   Listings
dcd....you will have a great time doing the road show. We went in San Francisco about 5 years ago. While waiting in the seemingly endless lines, its fun to see what other people brought in, sort of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours".

Will you post up the results after the show?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8323 ) on Jun-15-07 at 18:06:19 PDT   Listings
dcderoo,

most probably KGV not KEVII, Edward died on 6th. May 1910,

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-15-07 at 18:06:11 PDT   Listings
dcderoo… Get ready for your fifteen minutes of fame!!!

Jim
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1665 ) on Jun-15-07 at 17:49:38 PDT   Listings
Toyal = Royal
And the aerodrome photos may be from France rather than England (or both.) Not well documented.
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1665 ) on Jun-15-07 at 17:43:40 PDT   Listings
Let's see if I can be a bit concise about this.

I have a group of items and documents about my great uncle's participation in WWI.
He was born in England (1896), emigrated to the US in (1907), and settled in Cranston, RI.
With the UK's involvement in WWI he decided in 1917 he wanted to join the RAF.
But the RAF was only accepting trained pilots (he wasn't).
So he went to Canada and got training with the RCAF (actually the Toyal Flying Corps in Canada), graduating 25 August 1917.
He then transferred to the RAF and was commissioned as a 2nd Lt.
From his flight log it appears that combat(?) training continued into July of 1918.
He flew a DeHaviland-9a (bomber/reconnaissance).
He shot down at least two Germany aircraft, wounded himself(!), and on 24 Sept 1918. was himself shot down.
The particulars are lost in history but he lost a thumb and got a butt full of buckshot(!)
That was the end of his RAF career. After recuperating he was discharged and returned to the US.

What do I have to show-and-tell?
-- A splintered wood prop with a clock in the middle (from his crashed DH-9a?)
-- A windshield from a SE5A (fighter aircraft?) starred with bullet hits (no indication that he ever flew one)
-- His flight log covering from training in Canada to his last flight.
-- Lots of photographs around the aerodrome in England.
-- His commissioning certificate (possibly with KEVI's initials)
-- His graduation photo from the RCAF.
-- The three medals he earned.
-- Other associated documents

Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 189 ) on Jun-15-07 at 17:29:04 PDT   Listings
jaywild I was one of the posters who had also been diagnosed with a torn meniscus and yes, that is what I had operated on this wednesday. Unlike Bill I had plateaued in my recovery and choose to have the surgery so I could get back to work. Thanks for taking the time to look at the cover also. Lynn
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jun-15-07 at 16:51:22 PDT   Listings
jaywild I was the one who posted about the torn meniscus. I went the the orthopedic surgeon almost 3 weeks ago. With the anti-inflammatories my knee was feeling much better. The doctor examined the MRI, tortured my knee a bit (checking flexibility, etc), and said he thinks I have a 50/50 chance of not needing surgery. So he suggested I continue without the surgery. If I get to the point where I'm hurting more than I'm not hurting he said we can always operate. He said if he operated now he'd probably remove 50% of the meniscus - if I injure it further perhaps he'll have to remove 65%, so he recommended against surgery at this time. I was happy to agree with him. My knee continues to slowly improve, although I can't really run yet (or perhaps I'm just being too cautious).

Bill D.
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-15-07 at 15:43:44 PDT   Listings
Lynn… I saw your question about the Canal Zone airmail cover but I don’t know anything about first flight covers, or Lindbergh covers, except that I see them all the time listed in Postal History when I do a search for “solo”.

Also—what kind of knee surgery? Were you the poster who had inquired about a torn meniscus?

dcderoo... What are you taking to the Antiques Roadshow? C’mon, don’t leave us in suspense!!

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-15-07 at 15:36:40 PDT   Listings
Bjorn… Sorry about your exhibit. I thought it was fun…



Paolo... Is this you?

Milenko... I also appreciate the work you are doing in saving this board. Your archive was how I found the previous blatherings of Jonathan Dean the other day, and the reference to the article condemning him.

Jim
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-15-07 at 14:16:58 PDT   Listings
Error!
bagagliaATwanadoo.ny = bagagliaATwanadoo.nl
(where AT=@)
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-15-07 at 14:15:47 PDT   Listings
Knud-Erik,
My inbox was totally full! No mail could come in!
My wife let me notice it!
Please try to send me the e-mail again at bagagliaATwanadoo.ny (AT =@)

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jun-15-07 at 14:11:52 PDT   Listings
knuden since I only collect US perfins I can't answer your question. Maybe someone who collects worldwide perfins can give a good answer. In general (I know, it can be bad to generalize) a stamp with a perfin is viewed as a damaged stamp. I can think of two factors which could make a perfinned stamp more valuable than an unperfinned example: a) the perfin is rare and the stamp is relatively low catalog value or b) the particular stamp issue is not often perfinned and there are collectors who specialize in that stamp with perfins.

I don't have the reference literature to be able to assess the stamps you linked.

My personal opinion of perfinned non-US stamps: they are damaged, and I view them as space fillers until something better comes along. For what it's worth, I hold the same view for precancelled stamps. I collect precancelled stamps, but for my world-wide collection I try to not have any stamps precancelled or perfinned.

Bill D.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 189 ) on Jun-15-07 at 14:10:01 PDT   Listings
dcderoo That sounds like fun. What are you going to take?
NOIPUS airmail cover question from yesterday still unanswered 6-14-07 10:32:09 in case you missed it. Lynn
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-15-07 at 14:09:27 PDT   Listings
And very much sorry for the BOLD!
A lapsus calami!

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-15-07 at 14:08:38 PDT   Listings
Hello Paul (stamps12345),
I was at the stamp show in Verona. You can find some pictures of me and many other convinced philatelists (also nasty -- at times, though seldomly, pretending to be all knowing ones -- as myself ;-)) right here (Two pages!).
I am referred to as "the flying Dutch" (not that I like this nickname at all, this be foresaid ... and ACHTUNG!!! We will come back! LOL.. and so on and on...).
I won't hep you to find the caption of my bold head, bent over, whilst discussing perforations.
I am portrayed twice next to the honorary "Fraz-Joseph of Austria" (a philatelic consultant for the Italian Federation of Philatelic Associations).

RogerThank you very much for your welcome back and for your explanations on Swiss related postal matters!
With the water-eating pumps I design, water would become a dream in Amsterdam!
As of today I bought the 25th edition (2000) of the Zumstein Special catalogue... at the very moment not so impressed (sorry !)! (I found more varieties than that). Nevermind!

Today I was at a philatelic business (the one you know, here, with fake Switzerland C1 and C2), I bought some stuff, as usual, but I am very upset they didn't let me buy, for a more than fair offer, a Swiss airmail cover out of one collection which wasn't listed yet.
I doubt I will ever go back there (I am a 500 dollars customer per month, last 10 months, at least), I even think they know it!!!

All the best!
Paolo




Posted by dcderoo   ( 1665 ) on Jun-15-07 at 13:23:01 PDT   Listings
Tomorrow's my day for the Antiques Roadshow in Baltimore.
I don't think what I'm taking has much dollar value.
I'm hoping to be interviewed for its historical interest.
And failing that I'll at least get a charge out of being there.
Posted by knuden   ( 2287 ) on Jun-15-07 at 13:18:24 PDT   Listings
These perfins!

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by knuden   ( 2287 ) on Jun-15-07 at 13:16:16 PDT   Listings
NOIP - How much are these stamp in value with perfin compared with the same without perfin?? The one from GB is with wm. Large Anchor.

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 930 ) on Jun-15-07 at 10:24:15 PDT   Listings
Milenko, thanks for the tip!

As I have mentioned here, I participated in a national one-frame exhibition last weekend. Can't say I was pleased with the result for my "OOPS, things that can go wrong in date cancels". I got only 40 pts and a diploma. :-(

The reasons were partly that it was too "wide spread", well that was sort of intentional. Also, very low points on research and documentation, but what can one expect? Looks like my collection doesn't fit in: it doesn't follow the formula for Postal History, but it won't do in Open Class either becuse I don't have the required amount of non-philatelic material...

I could fill at least half a frame with covers from TYLER, TX with the year 1982 inverted, but that would be too narrow. :-)
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-15-07 at 10:12:19 PDT   Listings
NOIP… To add to the catalog of road-striping errors…

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-15-07 at 10:10:09 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Anybody got a spare ten thousand clams?

Mitch... Ha!!!!!

☺

Jim
Posted by oggilby   ( 1214 ) on Jun-15-07 at 09:48:17 PDT   Listings
Hello everybody, just catching up!

Also here in the Old Line State (MD), The County/State line drawers used plastic strips bonded to the lanes by heat guns, but they did this just before a cold snap, the plastic strips later came loose and scattered all over the roadway. It was a damn good thing that people knew by rote where the lanes were, but the reflections were distracting at night.
Posted by smolcott   ( 230 ) on Jun-15-07 at 09:17:20 PDT   Listings
NOIP- We get some interesting road stripes here in Maryland, too. Saw one overtop of roadkill and one that wandered from the edge of the paving almost to the centerline.
Steve
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 277 ) on Jun-15-07 at 07:51:04 PDT   Listings
Bjorn

Inverted "N" in a cancel here
Posted by dbenson   ( 8323 ) on Jun-15-07 at 07:50:56 PDT   Listings
It is now 1AM, just got back from the exhibition but befoire I head off to sleep I noticed a question about the fake Cyprus 1s. Green, apart from having an Aberdeen Scotland cancel which immediately warns that the item must be fake the overprint is incorrect in many ways. I would suggest that the seller should be asked what his return policy in forgeries is,

David B.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-15-07 at 06:45:29 PDT   Listings
Sorry Bill I forgot our resident forgery expert:-)
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-15-07 at 06:43:46 PDT   Listings
Gwhitlam I had look and compared against some overprint examples on the SG site. The S looks wrong as does the R, and perhaps the C should be more closed. Of more concern is the cancel as it doesn't look like Lowes ref C1 and the number should have been 981. BUT I am not an expert on Cyprus at all just saying what my eyes tell me. Perhaps others here can help? Check back in a few hours as this is more of a posting site and lots of people come and go from times zones worldwide:-)
Peter
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-15-07 at 06:42:32 PDT   Listings
gwhitlam They were trying to be diplomatic and follow eBay rules about Auction Interference. Does yours look like this?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-15-07 at 06:03:07 PDT   Listings
Bill C

Apart from the fact that the L & P appear to be afterthoughts, not much.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-15-07 at 05:45:51 PDT   Listings
Gwhitlam There was a posting in the past week about forged Cyprus overprints, although the seller was not mentioned. Try looking at our chat archives here www.iusc.org. I have purchased quite a few items from that seller over the last couple of years and had no problems, always good communication, if there is a problem I am sure he would refund. It always takes about 3 weeks for delivery though from Phillipines.
Peter
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-15-07 at 05:25:27 PDT   Listings
IOmoon Jim Interesting Comments?
Posted by gwhitlam   ( 349 ) on Jun-15-07 at 05:17:29 PDT   Listings
I recently won Cyprus SG#6 Used lot 300117692542. Another member advised there may be some members with previous chat about this copy. Any help?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-15-07 at 05:17:26 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

Jim

I think the penny black is as described by seller as a "scuff" since the frame line is way out of correct orientation.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1351 ) on Jun-15-07 at 03:30:10 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all



Jim L.

member
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-14-07 at 23:54:39 PDT   Listings
I notice the white line goes up onto the top of the curb because drivers didnt' stop for right turns, they just went over the curb. BTW - The paint machine must have been borrowed from over here. I swear all the miles of roads and highway here in Kona are painted with a guy pushing a similar machine. At least they have the smarts to only go downhill. They paint the right curb line then tow the machine to the top of the hill and go down the left side of the road against traffic. I won't even show you pictures of our path through the lava field from the employee parking lot to our airport workplace!

In Hawaii that plant on the side of the road would have been a "drop-off da truck', after a marijuana Green Harvest operation.

Roger
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-14-07 at 23:02:02 PDT   Listings
Jim I can only guess who spelled that?!?
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-14-07 at 21:57:02 PDT   Listings
NOIP… This was done on one of the downtown Los Angeles offramps of the Hollywood Freeway. Don't know if this photo is the same one, but I saw it in person, and couldn't believe it.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 952 ) on Jun-14-07 at 21:53:07 PDT   Listings
1 Penny black experts… Is there an ink smudge in the top right corner of the stamp on this cover? Is a smudge even possible?

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-14-07 at 21:25:54 PDT   Listings
claghorn that new policy is only for Sellers registering for the first time.. old sellers will not have to provide PayPal, and of course is only valid for countries that's banking systems allow PayPal to operate.

Linda
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-14-07 at 20:45:34 PDT   Listings
STAMPHICK Liked your photo,down load it for my guys to see ....paul
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-14-07 at 20:12:19 PDT   Listings
Soggy33 I am taking a rediculous policy to its extreme to show how ludicrous it is. No Pre-1950 stamps should be marked in any way. Only modern forgeries.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-14-07 at 20:09:59 PDT   Listings
Linda If only that policy would be true for Ebay Germany and Italy and Israel. It would make our purchases easier.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-14-07 at 20:06:50 PDT   Listings
Stamphick! here is one of my favorites.
Posted by pops6   ( 129 ) on Jun-14-07 at 16:44:27 PDT   Listings
mendelbrot Michael, welcome back. Glad to hear that you are getting better. Just did a quick scan of this board and noticed your name. You have been absent from this site for a long time. I don't spend much time here, mostly just lurking on Richard's board. I remember when you were a regular here maybe four or five years ago. Hope you keep getting better. Gary K.
Posted by rclwa   ( 967 ) on Jun-14-07 at 16:11:09 PDT   Listings
harry -- Scroll down to the Yellow Boxes below and you'll find some well written articles that should help you get started. Although the odds are much in favor of such accumulations being common material which would lose no value being soaked off cover or piece, it is always prudent to check first, to be sure you don't ruin a $20 cover to save a 20c stamp! Even some torn envelopes might contain cancels worth more than the stamp alone. A local stamp club or a store or dealer might be an opportunity to show examples to someone knowledgable. I'd focus on the earlier half of the age range you mention, although all has slim possibilities.

Bob in WA
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 189 ) on Jun-14-07 at 16:05:02 PDT   Listings
harrymitchell0 Welcome to the stamp board. There is a big yellow box if you scroll down about halfway on the board that has links for new/non collectors that should answer a lot of your questions. I think I used to use wax paper on the gum side of the stamp interleaved in an old book to keep the stamps from curling as they dried,but, whatever floats your boat. Any more questions just ask and somebody will probably be here sooner or later, check back in a few hours. Lynn
Posted by harrymitchell0   ( 335 ) on Jun-14-07 at 15:52:19 PDT   Listings
My brother in-law has a big stamp collection that was given to him from his great grandma date range is 1875-1950. The USA stamp has a value of 20-30 dollars from eBay actions. Many stamps are in stamp books, a few hundreds stamps have been torn off the envelopes and there are bundles of stamps sorted in the different countries. A lot of envelopes full and ½ torn envelopes have stamps on them (torn in the middle long way of the envelope. I do not think they are Fist issued unless they are different to the way they issue. How do I tackle this? Should I put the stamps in water and put them on the mirror to dry?
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-14-07 at 15:44:31 PDT   Listings
Mitch

here is the ebay Australia notice, cant seem to find the ebay usa notice...:(

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-14-07 at 15:32:14 PDT   Listings
Good morning from a frosty Melbourne, wish I was in Sydney at the Exhibition.
The Bassett Hull's and the Purves' books have always been expensive. I havent checked on either in the last 10 years but they were always priced in the hundreds of dollars here. In the UK Vera Trinder ocassionally had one or the other for sale, but as David mentioned Cavendish is your best chance of finding any of them.

suppose I should say Congratulations Marius on a game won, but as an ex-Sydneysider, and St George follower...grrrrrrrrrrr

Peter nothing Stevo does surprises me any more!

Mitch I actually mentioned it on this board when the new ebay ruling came in that all NEW SELLERS, registering for the first time, must offer either PayPal or Credit Cards as a payment option but I can't remember actually when that was, there was an announcement by ebay.
Linda
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6210 ) on Jun-14-07 at 11:51:33 PDT   Listings
Thanks David. I only have the one volume of the 1911 edition together with the plate pochettes. Nice to know there are actually two volumes.

Mark.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-14-07 at 11:29:47 PDT   Listings
stamps12345...This is what happens when you let government workers stripe the roads.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8323 ) on Jun-14-07 at 11:01:08 PDT   Listings
As the judging for the Exhibition didn't finish til late last night and continues early this morning I haven't had much time to on my computer and will have to leave home before 7AM to go the exhibition which is about 2 hours away due to traffic.

Cobbie

Cavendish estimates
3342 BASSETT- HULL - 1911 The Postage Stamps, Envelopes, Wrappers, Post Cards and Telegraph Stamps of New South Wales in two volumes plus pochette with Plates. A little inevitable time wear to the paperback bindings does not detract from this scarce publication. (3 items). £240

I can try to find out today what both books sell for here and let you know tomorrow sometime as I won't be home til very late tonight.


re. Glen, you have to remember he mixes his two occupations, stamp dealer & journalist and usually get's carried away with both. It is in his benefit if he keeps running down Ebay and he uses the Australian Chatboard for that but most members just ignore it as anyone should do with his emails if you get them. However there have been some interesting discussions there but luckily anyone can choose what they want to read & belive and ignore the rest,

The Show officially opens to the public this morning and it looks good, some very nice exhibits,


David B.
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-14-07 at 10:34:45 PDT   Listings
Mitchell -
I looked at the Announcements Board and no mention there. Then again after reading that Board I'm wondering what part of the eBay universe the Announcements Board is designed for. Not much there I can relate to either. What the heck is eBay radio? Where I live it's difficult enough to get a couple of music stations, let alone a special radio station for eBay, how did the FCC allow such a waste of airwave use? )'>) Mo betta check with Stamps Board for nu info.

Roger
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6210 ) on Jun-14-07 at 10:32:46 PDT   Listings
Antonius - It's been that way since January. All new Ebayers are supposed to either have a Paypal account OR have a merchant account before they can sell.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 189 ) on Jun-14-07 at 10:32:09 PDT   Listings
Good Morning All!
C is for Cristobal, CanalZoneFrt.I believe this is a first transcontinental 'Lindberg' flight. I have not been able to verify the postmasters nome or been able to find any petinent references to addressee. Appears to be correctly franked at 25c per 1/2 airmail plus 2c regular postage. The Canalback is here. Any additional descriptions, info or values would be appreciated as I am still learning the postal history side of things. All info so far has come from the Smithson Postal Museum. BTW, knee surgery went well. TIA, Lynn
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-14-07 at 10:17:29 PDT   Listings
CNN just announced that all Ebay sellers are going to be required to register with PayPal. That's the first I've heard tha, I imagine it will put-off a lot of sellers.
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6210 ) on Jun-14-07 at 10:13:13 PDT   Listings
Thanks Dave - I know it's not going to be a cheap book, especially as it has all it's illustrations on separate pages / photographs. I was actually toying with $350 or thereabouts, so it may be in the right area.

Mark.
Posted by knuden   ( 2287 ) on Jun-14-07 at 10:12:24 PDT   Listings
davidxflishman - Will you please stop your lengthy blah blah, so there can be room for some real stamp talk.

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by soggy333   ( 55 ) on Jun-14-07 at 09:52:28 PDT   Listings
Claghorn
By the way, I have some unidentified, unlisted stamps marked "Jonathan Dean" on the back. What are they?
Posted by soggy333   ( 55 ) on Jun-14-07 at 09:50:00 PDT   Listings
Claghorn
As the premier expert on forgeries on this board, you must have some sympathy with what I am about to say.
As a collector of forgeries myself, I view writing the word faux on the back of a forged stamp to be the equivalent of writing OG NH on the back of a C15.
I sympathised a little with protecting gullible stamp buyers and then I forced myself to get over it in a hurry. I personally have rarely been fooled and rarely have paid the price of a genuine stamp for a forgery although I am glad to pay twice catalog for some forgeries of cheap stamps. That would not be the case if they are slobbered all over with faux's and fake's.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-14-07 at 09:24:18 PDT   Listings
I should have added I am not a member of that board and can only assume he has raided our iusc for the emails.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-14-07 at 09:21:09 PDT   Listings
NOIP A new type of Spam, today I have received an email from Glen Stephens, whose board I know a number of you are members. The email goes on for ever and ever probably more than our friend who has been posting recently. One of the reasons I don't like that board is the commercial aspect, my choice I know. The email itself is just a piece of sales & marketing hype, which bears out what I thought already. D2 did you know you are mentioned?
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3669 ) on Jun-14-07 at 09:18:58 PDT   Listings

Davidx...

Regardless of how much chocolate you put on a turd, it is still a turd.

Jeff
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-14-07 at 09:02:13 PDT   Listings
Linda
I don't follow your logic. To us in South Africa then JD8 represented a serious problem as you were eating him alive and we had similar material from one identical source as well plus other sources. Our mistake was to copy his style which we thought was educational and over research lots we listed like he and his cousins did.From what I gathered from the discussion and his own ramblings , his surname was Darori and his uncle and Aunt (of the Netanya Covers fame-there must be hundreds in circulation.) were Netta and Stephen Darori. We have no connection to him directly or indirectly. We have never met him and probably unlikely to do so. Easy to to say something - how about applying some logic to your outburst.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-14-07 at 08:45:28 PDT   Listings
Cobbie Regarding Bassett Hull you should look at this one for comparison? Much as I would like it I can't afford that price, but what to offer? Any ideas?
Peter
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=200115792632&rd=1&rd=1
Posted by knuden   ( 2287 ) on Jun-14-07 at 08:22:09 PDT   Listings
Hello Michel - It's nice to see you are writing here more often. Have a nice day. :O)

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6210 ) on Jun-14-07 at 07:49:08 PDT   Listings
I forgot to mention, the J.R.W Purves has been signed by him inside the front cover.

Now I must get to work !
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6210 ) on Jun-14-07 at 07:32:38 PDT   Listings
And while I'm here, I also have "The Postage Stamps of New South Wales by A.F. Bassett Hull" which appears to have been published in 1911 - Leather bound, including separate illustrations.

Mark.
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6210 ) on Jun-14-07 at 07:16:56 PDT   Listings
David B / Linda

Do either of our Antipodean friends have an idea as to what the retail value of the book "The Half Lengths of Victoria - J.R.W. Purves" is ? I've tried the usual Google but cannot find out any values for this.

Thanks.
Mark.
Posted by stampmad   ( 1086 ) on Jun-14-07 at 06:55:08 PDT   Listings
You can check out some Sate of Origin footy here

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=state+of+origin&search=Search

or just see the biff here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGJKYo58dw

Marius
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Jun-14-07 at 06:08:07 PDT   Listings
Greetings to you all


http://www.mendelbrot.net/mbegin/ME.htm
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jun-14-07 at 05:32:38 PDT   Listings
iomoon relative to New York = The Big Apple, I had wondered that previously as well. I've not found a definitive answer. Here is a web site with several possible answers.

Bill D.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:53:19 PDT   Listings
Oh Peter, it was a very IMPORTANT Football Match. Queensland v. N.S.W. (called the State of Origin Match)

d1Vd2 so, yes they did need that beer!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:52:01 PDT   Listings
Nearly 8am in the Big Apple.
How did NY get that name anyway?
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:49:44 PDT   Listings
9.45pm Thursday in Melbourne.

not unless its an indelible pencil, oh and must be on back of stamp !! :o)
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:48:53 PDT   Listings
well it is afternoon here Lyndel/Linda:-)

I see you are getting your priorities right down under:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6748785.stm
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:48:12 PDT   Listings
Does writing FAUX in pencil in the selvige count?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:37:22 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

An even simpler solution is to hit the return key every now and again.

techusproducts

You'd probably be hard-pressed to get $5.
Unless there are a bunch of real die-hard Coronation street fans out there.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:32:32 PDT   Listings
Afternoon Linda seems as I logged in at the right/wrong time:-)

Davidx - If you want to be a good seller, keep your listings short, honest and accurate. Avoid any attempt at filling the description with endless words or gibberish as it is a turn off for most buyers. The same applies to the postings on this board.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:27:15 PDT   Listings
TECHUS./ PAUL.. .can you do a scan and post a link to it here on the board. Which country is the stamp from, and what value. what does the postmark say and what is the exact date on the postmark?
(if you are not sure about how to link a scan here, read the iformation below in the big Yellow Box.

Linda
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 385 ) on Jun-14-07 at 04:23:23 PDT   Listings
... and thank you for the proof positive I was waiting for, that johnnyd, davidx and stephen datori are all one and the same person. I knew given enough rope you'd hang yrself, and you did. come in spinner!! :o)


happy happy now!
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-14-07 at 04:02:34 PDT   Listings
and Yes we followed the eBay Stamp Board discussion and JD* 's comments plus closely examined the lots he was offering and printed many of them . He had an openly stated payment policy which I am sure if you enquired got a straight answer. It costs about 65 shekels was a parcel well backed with cardboard and $1.25 to rehgister it.So unless sent to Israel was more than likely to cost closer to $15 than $2. We sold about 40 lots and that on average is the cost we experienced. The service fee is unfortunate in Lewis's case but charged but thousands of dealers on eBay.Some justify it with stationaery costs others simply having to go 20 kilometers to the nearest post office. Since we anticipated we would have problems with similar stock but no Netanya Cover's we thouroughly studied JD8 descriptions and policies. The error we made as novices was nto follow it and not do as David Benson suggested-keep descriptions short and sweet.As for "raw material"-if the implication was to add an auxiliary handstamp that is plain stupid -it was to do as all ebay dealers do , break up the lot /collection and offer the items individually with proper classifications and references.Nothing unusual about that.
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-14-07 at 03:47:07 PDT   Listings
Linda -you are missing the point with regard to countries that the envelope is addressed to adding a MISSENT auxiliary handstamp to covers missent to larger than existing Po.Box numbers . In many countries this was official policy, to name a fewthe Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Jamaica,most West Indies and Carribean countries , Guyana to mention but a few.You can look at the official policy of each country if on the web or get it from the post master or Jim Drummond and POseals.com must have copies. It was not unusual for a misspelt hand stamp to be used. There is a RTS Mssent to Macau example and in Israel they for a year used one of a number of identical handstamps -only one was missent ": Huchzar Le Shaloch Na Le Hadbick bullim". Misspelt was the world Soleich . (sender). Itsimply transposed two letters . This how Israel still deals with underfranked postal items with this auxiliary hanbdstamp."Return to Sender. Please add Stamps-oval, bordered and in blue or black. Since I took a well known stamp dealer out to lunch it may interest you to know that while Israel is oblidged to have a letter surface rate postage rate , all letters go by airmail providing the surface rate postage is paid. As for misspelt perhaps the new UK auxiliary large light blue oval one (I think pulled from service now) is a clasic. The UK after 200 years determined that miss sent was two words and the large oval hlight blue hand stamp has MISS SENT TO THE UK on it. As for greenwave 4u comments.Other tahn following the discussion on JD8 we also looked at his lots and extensive gibberish (often). If you look closely at some of the Netanya covers as we did you could not help noticing that many were sent to towns in neighbouring countries via Bermuda,Jamaca, Ireland etc and returned equally by via these countriesand if the postal authorities first sent it back to where it was posted according to the stamp, it caused further confusion which was what Netta?? Darori, JD's Aunt was aiming at. Testing the postal authorities. He offered one sent to Calcutta by registered mail which is a clasic in confusing the Indian postal authorities in this case whose RTS and Dead letter office was in New Delhi or Bombay. It is an interesting study of contemporary postal regulations. He may have added a handstamp to confuse the postal authorities but always put the disclaimer whereit existed or not that it had not been catalogued. Hopefully Jim Drummond's forthcoming book on Postal Seals will not fall short of the contemporary period that Jim Kotanchik's did (Post Office Seals of the United States and Possessions). The only improvement from the listing in Scott are some excellent illustrations.
Posted by techusproducts   ( 0 ) on Jun-14-07 at 03:45:23 PDT   Listings
I have a first day cover of coronation street with betty lynch on the stamp. Please can any one tell me how much it is worth and it is about 25 years old. any help would be greatfull.

Thanks.

Paul Painter.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1351 ) on Jun-14-07 at 01:56:21 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all



Jim L.

member
Posted by vinnysf   ( 491 ) on Jun-14-07 at 01:09:08 PDT   Listings
rclwa i forgot to say thanks for your help with the bids..much appreciated.
Posted by vinnysf   ( 491 ) on Jun-14-07 at 01:07:57 PDT   Listings
malolo i'm sorry i keep spelling your name wrong. :)
Posted by vinnysf   ( 491 ) on Jun-14-07 at 01:07:19 PDT   Listings
malalo thanks for your breakdown of those bids.. now i understand. i must have confused that bid with another similar auction in the same bid range. (its true that the memory is the first thing to go) now i can see that i remained the high bidder til the end after i placed my bed. no sketchy bid retractions at all. a big error on my part..so, i will promptly pay for that lot and apologize because i think i may have sent them an accusatory email..ugghh!

i was very active with my collection when i first got it 20 years ago from my grandpa. it just got packed away after a move to another house and now 20 years later i've busted it out of the closet. i've been concentrating on the german states. i always have a running U.S. collection concentrating on the washington/franklins. many holes still to be filled. i like a challenge.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-13-07 at 20:56:20 PDT   Listings
PAOLO ----Thought you went to a stamp show there ? Here are pictures of the recent stamp show in Chicago ,this show is called COMPEX .It is now held out in the suburbs at a high school gymnasium were as years ago it was held in one of the big name hotels . Chicago stamp show two weeks ago ....paul
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-13-07 at 19:11:39 PDT   Listings
Forgot to respond to your question.

I have bought from sellers in over 35 countries. I don't ask questions about particular sellers, though those who offer items collectable to me seem to reappear over and over. If those sellers you mentioned keep offereding items you want, buy from them. If you want to expand your horizons, make sure you attend bourses, stamp exhibitions, and view on-line auctions of reputable auction house where you can buy collections, etc. Rarly will you need to buy individual stamps, they abound in quantity. Postal history items are more unique than stamps, but invariably after I've bought something "neat", another appears offered by someone else, maybe in another country! Must haves are things like D Benson bought, they weren't regular GB stamps, they were only recognized after decades of collecting. It's not possible to get from begginer to advanced collcetor in two years on eBay. But it can be a great start, especially here on the Board.
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-13-07 at 19:05:19 PDT   Listings
Vinny -
The high bid showing should have been $305, when you placed your bid of $440. As soon as you placed your bid, the high bid showing should have gone up to $330.
The bid added at 11:09 on the 26th would have showed $356.23 as high bid in your favor. When the $368.96 was bid, your bid became a winner at $373.96, not even close to your proxy bid being held by eBay.

Here is another way of looking at the events by time sequence:
$368.96 May-26-07 11:10:05 - 4: 45 before end. Same bidder tries again. Loses to you!
$351.23 May-26-07 11:09:42 - 5: 20 before end, uneven bids indicates seasoned bidder, though early for snipe.
$373.96 May-24-07 13:48:14 Your $440 bid passing below, auction shows $330.
_________
$325.00 May-20-07 22:21:47 passes and now lead bidder at $305 showing
$300.00 May-20-07 22:21:36 still chasing
$250.00 May-20-07 22:21:28 still chasing
$200.00 May-20-07 22:21:19 bidder chasing $150 now chasing $300 bid
$300.00 May-20-07 22:16:04 another bidder places $300
$160.00 May-20-07 22:15:23 got there and passed $150
$150.00 May-20-07 22:14:39 chasing $150 bid below
$140.00 May-20-07 22:14:12
_________
$150.00 May-20-07 21:47:46
$127.79 May-20-07 08:09:56
Roger

PS:
Not sure what you are aiming for in your collecting, but random accumulating will tend to gather cast-offs. You may have heard over and over, "a collector should specialize". That is true to a great extent. My greatest learning came AFTER I was accumulating British Commonwealth, British North America, Australian States, GB, Switzerland, Canada, etc. and sold the collections. I learned to use multiple catalogues and references, but it was still about one of each going into holes. Then it was about what to do with the stamps that aren't in the catalogue, as seen below with Pauls' Hong Kong. If you have an area that feels interesting, specialize in that direction and slowly wean yourself away from collecting items of no use to you.
Posted by vinnysf   ( 490 ) on Jun-13-07 at 18:10:55 PDT   Listings
what about these other sellers like: pavstamps, roecy, nobel spirit, pennsylvania-(something or other), and stamps4u? any suggestions or warnings of who to stay clear of?..y'all that have been on ebay for a long time have the most valuable advice that would really help a noobie like me make better decisions.
Posted by rclwa   ( 967 ) on Jun-13-07 at 18:02:57 PDT   Listings
vinny -- Trying to make sense of it all. If you bid $440 on the 24th (which was 2 days to go, not 4), it should have showed you then as high bidder at $330 ($325 + $5 increment), then the last two bids on the 26th raised that some. If other bids showed you as outbid then, I don't understand how they were later retracted with no record of it in the bid history. Double check your ''my ebay'' files to see if your notice is legit. Advice from others below is all very good.

The only way I'd bid on a private auction is a last minute snipe on something with little or no action, but even then it would need to be scarce and underpriced. But as we have all learned, ebay now makes all auctions private when they hit $200, helping the scammers.

There was an interesting 1-hour program about eBay a few days ago, on Discover I think (not sure, don't have tv guide here) that may be repeated.

Michel, warm greetings, nice to see you posting.

Bob in WA
Posted by vinnysf   ( 490 ) on Jun-13-07 at 17:43:09 PDT   Listings
on the 24th the high bid listed was $378.00 ($440.00 being my max bid)..so how can 2 lower bids be placed 2 days later? because to place a bid it would have to be more than $378 otherwise the system wont let you place the bid, right?
Posted by vinnysf   ( 490 ) on Jun-13-07 at 17:38:31 PDT   Listings
thanks infla-alec, jaywild, mini-lindy,malolo and greenwave for the advice. i will probably have to mark this one up as a "lesson tuition"

i dont think it was a spoof email. i did get an invoice. its been at least two weeks and i haven't heard anything from them at all regarding my payment for this auction. the pictures are gone so i don't even remember what exactly i bought. but i know i was already outbidded when i placed the bid. so i'll just wait and see what happens..
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-13-07 at 15:23:57 PDT   Listings
vinnysf The seller of the lot you mentioned (here) is notorious. It is an absolutely certainty that the stamps have been picked over, picked over, and picked over again. Still $300+ is not such an enormous sum, even if it turns out to be lesson tuition.

In the future, as Roger states, never never never bid on a lot before the final seconds, and never never never never never never never bid on an auction where the seller has made the bidder IDs private. There are no good reasons to hide the ID of the bidders, only fraudulent, scurrilous or venal ones.

Jim
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-13-07 at 15:08:41 PDT   Listings
Paolo -
Welcome back. It seems you had a relaxing vacation, now must move for the "new" job. )'>) Whatever that is, maybe pumping the canals of Holland dry!

I assume your new crucial Swiss item has a razor cancel and is dated 10.X.98. I'm looking for a Ste Croix, deCoppet cancel, November 1893. I've learned there is only one known, I must have help to find another. )'>) Other than that the exhibit is going through the final proof reading and detail checking, such as consistant font sizes, lines widths, etc.

Michel -
Good to see you here agian.

Roger

What the heck, here's another funny video. No politics, just a drunk driver stop.
http://www.jibjab.com/view/122529
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-13-07 at 15:07:57 PDT   Listings
vinny when I first joined ebay back in 1999 they used to have a notice in your Bid Confirmation email that stated that all bids were 'live' until the end of the auction, and any bid retractions would result in 2nd or even 3rd placegetters becoming winners.
I checked my most recent email and they don't seem to say that now.
As Roger says, bidding on private auctions is always a risk, as even bid retractions do not show. Are you sure you won? as the winning bid was placed 2 days before auction end. Are you sure you have not received a ''spoof'' email, with a fake YOU HAVE WON, notice?
that is all I can suggest, however as it was more than 2 weeks ago you had better hurry and do something, or pay the guy. Maybe check with ebay via the LIVE HELP link on the top of the home page.
Linda
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:47:56 PDT   Listings
Knud-Erik,
I am checking every minute.
Nothing came in, yet.
Will read in the 'murning'!

Good night,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:36:09 PDT   Listings
P.P.S. I finally received one crucial Swiss item from Paris!
I am celebrating for this occurence!!!
Maybe it took more time because the seller made a very nice certificate for the item.
Actually, the item is beyond my expectations.

Moral: Certain people have the style not to get umbrage of my e-mail occasional eruptions! It happens seldomly, but when it happens I am all over the keyboard.

Best,
Paolo (flight 1123, copied cleared to Saturn, over and out)
Posted by knuden   ( 2286 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:30:54 PDT   Listings
Paolo _ I have sent you a mail. :O)

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:24:17 PDT   Listings
eBay Users' Stamp Club of course.
Just trying to beat the record of consecutive postings of Davidxflishman, to whom goes my welcome to the Stamp Board!

Greetings, Paolo (Nano-Nano)
Posted by knuden   ( 2286 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:23:03 PDT   Listings
Mendelbrot - Michel, here is my sparse Bosnia collection. As you can see, I have a long way to go with all the different perforations, paper and types there are with these issues.
I have a friend in Croatia, who helps me obtaining stamps and he is expertizer for this area and then all the better stamps has a new certificate.
I like this area - it's a challenge and the story is interesting. Later I will try to spice up the pages with covers and cards and other postal items. But it's a long way to go and it's fun. :O)

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:22:20 PDT   Listings
P.S.: as a between brackets, most e-mail addresses of board regulars are embedded in the eBay Stamp Club member list.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:19:22 PDT   Listings
Hello Knud-Erik,
As of recent I am checking my inbox frequently.
Unfortunately, I didn't receive your message through the eBay system.
Maybe it's matters of censorship of the OKW! LOL

Hope to read from you soon.

Best,
Paolo
(bagagliaATwanadooDOTnl
where:
AT=@
DOT=.)
Posted by knuden   ( 2286 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:14:23 PDT   Listings
vonbag - Hello Paolo. I have sent you a message through the Ebay system - please take a look. :O)
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:12:56 PDT   Listings
vinny -

Read this and take it to heart.

1. Never, NEVER, NEVER!!!!, make any bid early, especially a high "that's my max" bid. You are asking for trouble every auction.

2. Never, NEVER, NEVER!!!, bid in private auctions unless you appear to be the only bidder with one hours remaining. Use a snipe program and set is to a moderate amount. Set it for less than 5 seconds. When bidding on these auctions you are asking for trouble in every auction.

Other than that, the seller has removed the images already so it's not even possible to judge whether you have a good collection or not. It looks like someone ran up the bidding on May 20, you bid on the 24th, and someone bid twice on the 26th. You'll never know whether you were scammed. I hope you like the stamps.

BTW - This advice goes to anyone else who bids high at the beginning of an auction, and/or bids in private auctions.

Roger
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:11:41 PDT   Listings
Paul (stamps12345),
Thank you for your welcome back!
I will link a couple of scans to those different frame types I mentioned, also as kindly confirmed by Roger, as soon as I get around some logistic problems concerning my moving to the town of Amsterdam.

Michel
(Mandelbrot),
GREAT to see you posting again!
I wish you all the best,
including a gradual but constant recovery,
and a good continuation to all!
Paolo
Posted by infla-alec   ( 542 ) on Jun-13-07 at 14:10:09 PDT   Listings
Vinny The auction doesn't show any retracted bids and of course such auctions are open to shill bidding.
Best to see if anyone here knows more about how you stand legally in such circumstances. Failing that contact both the seller and ebay directly and explain the situation.

Far too late now here for me to follow this story, (late evening UK time) but please do keep us informed of any outcome or developments
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-13-07 at 13:52:10 PDT   Listings
Well you had 2 bids just under yours 5 minutes before closing
Posted by vinnysf   ( 490 ) on Jun-13-07 at 13:41:54 PDT   Listings
i can't figure out how to link to it but here is the item number: 190113519173
Posted by vinnysf   ( 490 ) on Jun-13-07 at 13:37:12 PDT   Listings
i haven't paid for it yet...it was a nystamps washington/franklins auction. i won an earlier one which was $400. and i paid for that one. which explains all the washington/franklin items i'm selling right now..lol. and yes i think the bid identities were concealed.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-13-07 at 13:29:55 PDT   Listings
Vinnysf I assume the bid identities were concealed once it went over $200, which opens up all sorts of possibilities for shills.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 542 ) on Jun-13-07 at 13:20:16 PDT   Listings
Vinny I've tried looking at items you have won and can see no sign of you winning any $370 collection. Can you please post a link to the auction you refer to ?

What ebay rules are exactly for someone who ends up winning after another ebayer retracts their bid I don't know.
Posted by vinnysf   ( 490 ) on Jun-13-07 at 12:29:49 PDT   Listings
i had bid on a collection and my high bid was about $370.00 and i was still outbid by another user with a good 4 days left. so i left that one alone and i was glad i was outbid because i didn't really want to pay that much for it anyway. but somehow i ended up winning?? someone must have withdrawn their bid would that make me the winning bidder? if so, its hard to believe that noone else bidded on it at all the last 4 days. something isn't right about that.
Posted by knuden   ( 2286 ) on Jun-13-07 at 12:03:34 PDT   Listings
mendelbrot - Hello Michel. Nice page. :O)
As you might know, I have started to collect Bosnia and Herzegovina for some time ago and my collection is slowly improving. Later tonight I will scan the pages, I have made so far, so you can see how far I am. :O)

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Jun-13-07 at 08:17:33 PDT   Listings
Greetings to you all

http://www.mendelbrot.net/mbegin/ME.htm
Posted by 220man   ( 151 ) on Jun-13-07 at 07:31:29 PDT   Listings
jibjab installed a tracking cookie, no big threat.
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Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-13-07 at 06:22:25 PDT   Listings
22028...It's a pretty harmless site. I would assume that it could only be blocked on your end.
Posted by 22028   ( 1610 ) on Jun-13-07 at 06:11:20 PDT   Listings
stamphick!, an why it is blocked her? ON request of the US politicians?
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-13-07 at 06:06:54 PDT   Listings
22028...It mostly contains a bunch of very clever parodies mostly of US politics.
Posted by 22028   ( 1610 ) on Jun-13-07 at 06:04:49 PDT   Listings
The jibjab domain is blocked by my ISP here in the UAE. I wonder what is on that server?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-13-07 at 05:29:58 PDT   Listings
David

Quite definitely!
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-13-07 at 05:24:25 PDT   Listings
iomoon...I'd say that was an improvement, wouldn't you?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-13-07 at 05:07:41 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

So, instead of gibberish, we get jibjab!!
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1348 ) on Jun-13-07 at 05:03:35 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all



Jim L.

member
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-13-07 at 03:17:50 PDT   Listings
Before retiring for the night I thought I'd post a link to an important scientific message.
http://www.jibjab.com/view/125614

Roger
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-13-07 at 01:33:08 PDT   Listings
lluehhhb I have used your archive several times to refer back to an item. Overall I think it very useful and a big thank you to you for your efforts. Is it possible to think of a means to search the whole archive? Also worth mentioning for the benefit of all if you post links to your own pictures etc, these links may in time get broken if you clean up your online storage area, unless there was a practical way of storing those as well?
cheers
Peter
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 465 ) on Jun-12-07 at 20:37:28 PDT   Listings
Bah the spam didn't last an hour. :(
I copied it if you HAVE to know what it was. HAH!
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 465 ) on Jun-12-07 at 20:26:03 PDT   Listings
Yeah a scanner beats a camera by a mile for those duties.
If you do have that, the first page from the countries Bill D. listed is probably very telling for what you've got.
I was giving you an out in case you didn't have the tech savvy
to scan/upload to the forum. :)
Plus it wouldn't hurt for you to look them up...
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jun-12-07 at 20:25:43 PDT   Listings
lluehhhb although I haven't yet referred to the posts you have saved of the board, I think it is a useful and helpful service. I've found (in my personal saving of the board) the value really comes over time. Something will happen and I'll wish I could refer back to the earlier discussion on the board. For example, for those who are interested in the previous discussion with jonathandean8, they are available on the archive you provide, between January 26 and February 10.

I, for one, hope you continue to archive the board, and appreciate your efforts.

Bill D.
Posted by bsmd247   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 20:14:45 PDT   Listings
thanks for your imput i am going to get some of the ones I have from 1860's scan and paste for you guys to look at and give me alittle help on I have invested 25,000 of my own money and want to have a good collection
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 465 ) on Jun-12-07 at 20:05:38 PDT   Listings
WooHoo!
It MUST be near a full moon. Spread that spam!
You speak of exact matches in that text nonsense, have you found YOUR exact text match?
I just realized that I don't want to know.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 465 ) on Jun-12-07 at 19:05:09 PDT   Listings
Bsmd: The first rule in selling something is to know what you have. You would be well off to look through it, maybe at the local library where stamp catalogs are usually available.
You can judge it roughly by how much the stamps you think would go for the most are listing for in the catalog.
That is the easiest way, I guess.
Who knows, you might have fun doing it, and join us in this underrated hobby.
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jun-12-07 at 18:53:00 PDT   Listings
jaywild the D and F refer to the scarcity ratings for the perfins. Here is the "A-Z" entry describing the scarcity ratings for US perfins.

bsmd247 with your descriptio nthere is no way to tell what the stamps are worth. For example, I bought (at a local auction several years ago) a collection in 15 nice albums, with 55,000+ stamps for $500. One quick way to determine if there is "real" value in the collection is to look at the earliest stamps from some major countries (US, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain). If you could scan the first pages of those countries and post links to the images I'm sure someone on the board could give you an opinion.

Bill D.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 18:17:31 PDT   Listings
Bill Dempwolf ThanksI never would have figured it out, but now that I see it right side up it makes perfect sense. What are the D and the F notations beside the images in your link? I imagine these perfins are very common.

Jim
Posted by bsmd247   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 18:09:18 PDT   Listings
I have 75,000 different stamps from around the world and alot have been post marked and some have not what would a collection like that be worth?
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jun-12-07 at 18:04:36 PDT   Listings
jaywild your perfin is either I5 or I5A. You have the image upside-down (see here). It is a capital I within the outline of the State of Illinois and is used by the State of Illinois.

Bill D.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 17:55:59 PDT   Listings
Lindy Whats a steam iron?

?

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-12-07 at 17:34:13 PDT   Listings
Jim looks like a Steam Iron to me (or have I been doing too much housework lately? :)
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-12-07 at 16:55:53 PDT   Listings
Paul, it is only about $25, buy the catalogue, there are a lot of rarities that can only be recognised by the various overprints and die types if you have the catalogue. It will also help with the shades on the ones you have. You can use it for all Commonwealth Revenues and will come in handy when perusing lots and annotating pages,

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 16:47:20 PDT   Listings
NOIP Does anyone recognize this perfin? It looks vaguely like a knights helmet.

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-12-07 at 16:45:41 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. ---Those all came out of a large lot that im breaking down .So the cost was minium but do have a few dozen duplicates .Like so much of the world if I run into more in the future then I will purchase a reference book but my interest are else where after I sorted those.Still looking for a decent C of G H collection this year.All the collections were too small or poor quality last year that were up for auction .....paul
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-12-07 at 16:04:44 PDT   Listings
Paul, in the 1972 series there are also $60, $80 & $200 values,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-12-07 at 16:02:25 PDT   Listings
paul,

get the catalogue, yours all appear to be the 1972 printings of which you are missing the good values $8 and all the high values. There are many different types and it is useless collecting them without a reference, the earlier ones have different head dies and different overprints.

David B.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-12-07 at 15:39:59 PDT   Listings
I am a great fan of advertising envelopes, so keep them coming, chas, loved the CapGun!!
C is for Carters Ink Vic and I collect anything related to the advertising of writing ink. These 3 envelopes are from our collection.
Carters Ink Boston factory Sept 9, 1912 cover
Carters Ink Chicago factory April 16, 1912 cover
Carters Writing Fluid, a cover from a Melbourne Australia stationery company advertising Carters Ink, posted locally 24.4. 1900 with a 2d QV stamp (if you can see it!!!!)
and, as I know so many of you like to play with words or puns, here is part of a Carters ink advertisement for their Ink Eraser, with their mascot the little boy know as inkyracer!! I kid you not!!

Good luck with the surgery Lynn!

Oh thank you davidx, an explanation of how a MISSENT TO.. handstamp works! Exactly as Stephen D. explained it, and so so so so so wrong. MISSENT TO is never used on INCORRECTLY ADDRESSED mail, which is why the MISSENT TO handstamps are so difficult to find, they can never be contrived. Only a philatelist who knew how MISSENT TO handstamps were applied could understand, and I am not about to tell you again :)
Linda

Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-12-07 at 15:16:24 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. -----Here are the HONG KONG contract note stamps that I sorted out .I have two pages to add to my collection . Page of H.K. revenues ....paul
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 187 ) on Jun-12-07 at 14:51:06 PDT   Listings
ROTFLMAO You guys are killing me! I'm hanging on every word ,but, its getting hard to read with tears in my eyes. I am going into surgery tomorrow and this board has really brightened up my day. Its like watching the Three Stooges in a slow motion train wreck. Back to the bleachers to tie myself to the seat and watch the rest of the show. Lynn
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1634 ) on Jun-12-07 at 14:49:35 PDT   Listings
NOIP

C is for capgun

Posted by dr.searchphd   ( 0 ) on Jun-12-07 at 13:18:55 PDT   Listings
JAYWILDMAN;
KIDNAPEE? I think i remember those when i was in 'kinder' school.

'zero feedback'
Easy on those of us who have already 'thinned' out our stock years ago when ebay was the wild west and everything sold, and now enjoy the study for study sake without the 'hassle' of sales. I have expanded the base of study in so many areas because of this very board along with the other boards that had a start here. As for the 0 i kinda like the fact i always start as a newbie when i ask a question and have never been treated as a fool for asking even from this tremendous body of research students as no one will ever attain 'master' of all. To have access to this much research in its active and ongoing basis is a treat to those of us that feed on the research and apply it to the areas of study that float our boat. So i guess the point is 'you caint judge a book by its feedback'.(back to the balcony with pen and paper)
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 13:18:51 PDT   Listings
Duncan your autographs is a good avenue to pursue. No lithograph in the experimental art publications XXe Siecle, Derriere le Miror and Verve (I have dropped the French accents) were ver signed. Yet time and time again you see a one "signed in pencil". Out of curiosity I recall JD8 relating the little annecdote that he asked one seller how a lithograph from one of these publications came to be signed. He got a lame duck answer it was "autographed'.I am sure the seller just happened to be carrying the lithograph when she bumped into Picasso.EBay are far too lenient in this regard.None of the Masters of the 30's, 40's or 50's ever sat down and signed a 500 limited edition reprint especially when the series had 24 lithographs in it.Can't seee any signing 12,000 but look at the art section now and you probably will find one or two "signed in pencil" with a cerificate of authentity made out of a Word template.While this is a stamp forum you have hit on another weak spot in eBay.Whow. Is it that late?. Good Night.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 542 ) on Jun-12-07 at 13:14:45 PDT   Listings
To whom it concerns Yes the newbie reincarnated poster I'm refering to you. Now I am a pretty mild mannered sort of guy as virtually anyone who knows me will tell you. But please do yourself a favour and the board and stay away from here. Your postings are a vain attempt to justify a complex web of deceipt and no one here is taken in by it. Your tales are full of holes that have been exposed here on several occassions and you are in my opinion a very poor liar.

Mitch Apoligies if I missed he consensus on how the current ABC show is being run. Items refering to a theme, place or person it is then.

Talking of lawyers though reminded me of the Texan 3 kick rule joke.
A big city California lawyer went duck hunting in rural Texas. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a fence.

As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing. The litigator responded,
"I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I'm going into retrieve it."

The old farmer replied. "This is my property, and you are not coming over here."

The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in the U.S. and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own."

The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we do things in Texas. We settle small disagreements like this with the Texas Three Kick Rule."

The lawyer asked, "What is the Texas Three Kick Rule?"

The Farmer replied. "Well, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth, until someone gives up."

The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and
decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.

The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the city feller. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick nearly ripped the man's nose off his face. The barrister was flat on his belly when the farmer's third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up.

The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet and said, "Okay, you old coot now it's my turn."
(I love this part......)
The old farmer smiled and said, "Naw, I give up. You can have the duck" :-)
Posted by nomad55   ( 897 ) on Jun-12-07 at 13:09:43 PDT   Listings
To paraphrase Bugs Bunny....
"What a maroon!
What an ultra-maroon!"

I just went back and counted the number of posts by (.)x(.), he's done for the day.

Let peace and quiet reign for at least 12 hours.
Posted by ed845   ( 4482 ) on Jun-12-07 at 13:08:55 PDT   Listings
Numpty as in humpty dumpty is a no no.

It is spelt numptie
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 277 ) on Jun-12-07 at 13:08:06 PDT   Listings
With all these crappy posts I'm having a hard time saving the board for the archive. I wonder if I should just delete them to save some space...

btw, I've saving the board for 2 months and I'd like some feedback about it. My main question is, does anybody have used it? is it really useful or it's just good to have it stored somewhere?
It's not like I want to quit or something, just curious about the real usage of the files.

(in case someone don't know, the board is being saved weekly and the files are here)
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 13:02:55 PDT   Listings
jaywild
So Jonathan/Lewis/Stacey/David/Stephenthe jig is up. I just had a look at the Ebay SCADs (Goodness where do they come up with these words-I am willing to accept that one is is Webster),there was also a Netta and lets not leave out the grand daddy Samuel. So on behalf of the "seven of us" according to you. Good Night.
Posted by duncan_doenitz   ( 120 ) on Jun-12-07 at 13:00:35 PDT   Listings
To dxf:

No remorse, just another layer of BS?

Got news for you, pal. It doesn't cover up the smell, it just adds to it.

To others:

The mental image of a defeated dxf curled up in a fetal position as he reverts to his jonathandean8 identity and babbles on to no one in particular is somehow amusing.

Oh. The latest twist - autographs! Now there's another field for a known liar and seller of forged items to exploit! No reason for suspicion there, eh?

Can't wait to read the descriptions.

-Dunc
Posted by nomad55   ( 897 ) on Jun-12-07 at 12:56:30 PDT   Listings
This is beginning to read like a stand up comedy routine, although a bad one.

Is (.)x(.) being delusional, or does he really believe all the BS he spouts?
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 12:47:45 PDT   Listings
Reported this Numpty for what?. Gooodness where do these words come from. What is a "numpty"?. Has this FORUM issued a phrase and word book?
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 12:44:26 PDT   Listings
Duncan Doenitz- your response caught my attention before I switched of my computer please explain "raw material". All ebay sellers buy in bulk.Be it ebay lots or from the big lot sellers such as Greg Manning or Warwick and Warwick (to mention two there are also other American, Canadian and British lot sellers)with the intention of breaking up the lot into smaller lots. David Benson does it with high degree of expertise and profitably.If you are implying it was the Netanya Cover creators intention of applying a MISSENT TO KINGDOM NAURU on the "raw material", you are been rediculous,naive and incredibly stupid. Lewis has been buying lots on landbased auctions for 30 years along with his late father-speculatively and was amazed when he won a large lot of old US postal covers. Are you realy expecting to see a MISSENT TO BERMUDA,DAMAGED BY FIRE OR DAMNED TO NAURULAND on these covers.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-12-07 at 12:39:11 PDT   Listings
I've figured it out.
Our newbie poster is suffereing from Dissociative Identity Disorder.
I know these things, since I'm a doctor.
OK, so I'm a rock doctor.
But that appears to be what the newbie has in their head, so I am well-qualified.
The recommended treatments include a swift blow to the head with a large hammer.

If nothing else it might cure this idiot of seemingly willingly subjecting themselves to justified abuse on a daily basis.
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6201 ) on Jun-12-07 at 12:21:33 PDT   Listings
Has anyone else reported this numpty ? I've done so twice now but only get the canned response back that Ebay are "looking into it and will not allow you to know the outcome of their findings".


I could post a C relating to "people", but that would probably get me kicked off this board forever ;)
Posted by duncan_doenitz   ( 120 ) on Jun-12-07 at 12:16:53 PDT   Listings
Thanks Jim!

I've always felt that eBay should hire a firm that provides "Secret Shoppers".

It works for other companies, why not eBay, especially since they are so reliant on honesty in the conduct of their business? Your example shows just how effective it can be, it's just too bad that the system depends on concerned individuals to take the initiative. Thomas Anderson deserves praise for his efforts and the conclusive proof he presented.

To dxf, the comparisons that link jd8 and lxk auctions would be tiresome to post, word spamming if you get my drift. To be brief, it is just a no brainer.

But to address your insistence that lxk auctions were not like jd8 auctions, consider these similarities...

Jonathandean8 was a proven liar who posted voluminous tall tales spun around his bogus offerings, which also cast doubt on his supposed personal history.

Given the lies, there is no reason to believe that his charity fundraising was legitimate.

Same, therefore, for lxk. In fact, three of the four identities have all insisted that "what a seller does with his income is his own business". Given the (probably false) legal background mentioned here, it is ludicrous to believe that none of the identities have any awareness of the legal issues involved in fundraising, given the obvious opportunites for fraud in such activities. It's not a new or surprising legal concept.

Both sellers set up methods to abuse the shipping costs involved in eBay sales, jd8 offering a vague "$2 to $15" estimate but favoring $15 and failing to honor combined shipping costs, if one believes the bad feedback. He also tacked on and extra fee to his shipping, supposedly for UNICEF.

Lxk carefully did not state his shipping costs, but hid a paragraph in his "Me" page where he justified huge shipping costs, giving himself something to hide behind when buyers complained, but publishing it where buyers would not see it until it was a done deal. Like jd8, he also tacked on an extra shipping fee, this time for third party shipping.

He was also buying cheap covers in bulk on eBay (as jd8 did), which many here recognized as probably raw material for more bogus overprinted covers.

So there was more than word spamming going on in the auctions. Add the suspicion that the lying has not stopped and we see now three more imaginary histories that, like jd8, are really Stephen Darori in disguise. And in one case, in drag.

You'll probably soon be MISSENT TO NARULAND.

-Dunc
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 12:12:51 PDT   Listings
I just acame to switch of my computer. The author was exceptionally generous in his article. I am surprised that the two leading authorities JIm Drummond who has been advertising a forthcome books on "official seals and auxiliary markings in the Philatelic Literature Review for the better aprt of a year and Todd Hirn who used to have a website poseal.com with a almost complete contemporary and older listing of "official seals and their asociated auxiliary markings" were not contacted.Lewis and I saw the criticism levelled against this type of material and has no "missent", "damaged in transit" or "officially sealed" covers in his stock. It would be an interesting point to discuss but I am off to bed. While clearly not 100% philatelic or certainly not comercial, the intent of the sender was to test(I am willing to go with deceive) the reaction of the of the receiving postal authority with regard to an incoming letter with a "surcharge", torn and to a dead address and obviously get it back and test the postal authority to where the return address is.To make it more interesting if the illustration is anything to go buy some were posted from countries other than that of the return address.An interesting aspect of philately even if an element of creation went into some of them.The chances of some of the covers getting damaged and surcharged in the ordionary course of commercial mail is slim so is tearing an envelope, under franking it and sending it to a dead address via Guyana (knowing it will pick up a MISSENT TO GUYANA hand so outrageous.Here is a stamp issue. Lewis has a large collection of privately printed covers celebrating Sadats 1977 visit to Israel (some even signed by Begin,Sadat and Carter) are these privately printed covers so different from the "Netanya Covers".Other than I probably have used up my allocated 10 messages, I need an early night. Layla Tov. Good Night.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-12-07 at 12:05:11 PDT   Listings
To put the board back on an even keel a posting for C relating to people. Churchill.


Peter
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:44:55 PDT   Listings
Camels in Watford Gap, now there's a thought:-)
Posted by nomad55   ( 897 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:43:05 PDT   Listings
Jonathan/Lewis/Stacey/David/Stephen/(future alias) - you have been outed. So go crawl back under that heap of camel dung from whence you came.
On second thought, that might give you ideas for additional bogus markings...'DAMAGED BY CAMEL POOP IN TRANSIT'.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:29:20 PDT   Listings
Jonathan Dean/Stephen Darori article Here and here. Both are 150k+ files, sorry, couldnt figure out how to make them smaller. Makes for very interesting reading.

So Jonathan/Lewis/Stacey/David/Stephenthe jig is up.

Jim
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:17:39 PDT   Listings
David/stacey/lewis/jonathan/ Look mate/miss whichever gender you are or perhaps just Brahms & Liszt, quite simply you are pushing a lost cause. I repeat again there are direct links between JD and Lewis that's enough to implicate all your ID's. I can prove it to myself, so I am sure eBay has 10 times the evidence. In case you are wondering it has nothing to do with tracing IP addressing, but if you enjoying wandering through the pipes of the internet underground so be it.
Posted by laumpc   ( 2904 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:13:39 PDT   Listings
I wonder if said person got naru for copying another seller's description. That is also a no no.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:13:12 PDT   Listings
dragonstamps Oopsmy bad!!

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:11:57 PDT   Listings
Sniped by caf-dog

Jim
Posted by duncan_doenitz   ( 120 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:11:35 PDT   Listings
You might be on to something, dxf.

There might be somebody at Algatechnologies that could help sort out these confusing identities - maybe there is somone there fluent in English.

One never knows - seems some people monitor this chat board for years, only to pop up when the ten posts per day isexceeded, so maybe someone at that firm has an interest in eBay (and fraudulent sales). Never hurts to ask.

-Dunc
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 465 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:11:01 PDT   Listings
Hence the quotes.. HE wrote tomato.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:10:43 PDT   Listings
And it was potato, not tomato.

?

Jim
Posted by cafe-dog   ( 81 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:05:08 PDT   Listings
It was a Vice-President and it was potato (e).
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 465 ) on Jun-12-07 at 11:04:00 PDT   Listings
Err X? is it?
The guy who couldn't spell "tomato" was NOT, nor will he EVER BE the president.
Accuracy? We don't need no stinkin' accuracy!
Just make things up, and hope no one will figure it out. That should be your motto.
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 11:03:48 PDT   Listings
Thats okay.This is the last one I prefer to put my kids to bed than get insulted and word spammed.
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 10:55:12 PDT   Listings
Iwould be interested to see that reference to Stephen Darori. It was mentioned about six months ago.Is there bulletins or publication on line.
Posted by sayasan   ( 653 ) on Jun-12-07 at 10:51:03 PDT   Listings
davidx - Come on, please, use up your ten messages quickly. The subsequent appearance of yet another family member with zero feedback will be so far beyond the implausible that even you won't have the chutzpah to try it. Then we can all have a break and talk philately again.
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 10:50:21 PDT   Listings
Dunc
-You are making the implying that Lewis, Stacey and I are one and the same.But fail to recognise that there was nothing in the 340 lots Lewis listed before he was suspended that resembled the issue you had with Mr Dean.Lewis was aware he was going to have a problem as some of his stock came from at least one common source of Mr Dean, the late Ralph Putzel whose credentials are impecable by the way.If you are basis that association on "word spamming" -lok it up in google. If you find a positibe reference let me know. I haven't. Stacey has said her father wanted to listing to be a time consuming or absorbing process but an educational experience to him and liked the research done in everything legitimate in Mr Dean's listing. David Benson has recommended that it would be better to keep the descriptions short.Lewis appreciates David with a 8300 rating and will copy his style -short and to the point.A positive suggestion and one that was readily accepted. I hope (sarcastically) there will not be an issue with "word spamming" that will suspend Mr Benson.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 10:49:41 PDT   Listings
David X Conman First of all, there is no such person as Jonathan Dean, so if you claim to have had discussions with him either you are insane or else you are an integral part of the chicanery. Jonathan Deans real name is Stephen Darori, as proven by the article in the April 2007 edition of the British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group magazine. So it doesnt take a great leap of faith to conclude that you are Stephen Darori, based on the trail of evidence you continue to leave behind.

Jim
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3661 ) on Jun-12-07 at 10:46:32 PDT   Listings

Not like the hot-rod floor shifter?
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 10:29:06 PDT   Listings
Like Lewis and now Stacey- I have followed the eBay chat board off and on for the last 3 years.I am well aware of what Mr Dean is accused of but you will not see that in Lewis's listing.In fact nothing in Lewis's listing is an issue.It is just the apparant "word spamming" association that is an issue.
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-12-07 at 10:19:13 PDT   Listings
You will recall that uyou have a President who also has a spelling problem on live Television.Tomato or ws it tomatoe ? The nature of this chat board does not warrant proof reading or putting each message through a spell checker. Perhaps this chat board has a spell checker, I don't know about. If you follow Bill Gates -one of his primary targets is the US School Education as US college student spelling is atrocious. In his address to Harvard on finally getting an honorary degree he made that clear and in subsequent interviews.
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 10:04:31 PDT   Listings
David X Conman Sorry, but if you have 3 degrees as you say and also that you cant spell, those two statements are incompatible. I dont care where your degrees came fromyour atrocious language skills would have gotten you booted not only out of your graduate committee but the university as well.

scottpel3... To the casual eye it might seem as if Stacey and Lewis and David are getting a bum rap, but believe me, they are all one and the same person who is trying to market self-created crap on eBay and spinning tall tales of how educated and sophisticated (and pitiable) he is. He has twice been booted off eBay for crooked dealing, so your concern, though admirable, is misplaced.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-12-07 at 09:53:56 PDT   Listings
NOIP Forgive my nitpicking, but if this is not corrected it will pass down the generations like color blindness. The name is Herman Herst, not Hearst, as in Patty, the famous kidnapee.

Jim
Posted by duncan_doenitz   ( 120 ) on Jun-12-07 at 09:49:37 PDT   Listings
To scotpel3,

Being kicked off eBay is now the primary penalty for fraudulent sellers, and that's pretty lame.

Although eBay occasionally brags about law enforcement acivity against the worst of the sellers, a careful reading of those reports show that legal action typically does not originate with eBay, but rather they simply cooperate with the authorities, which is really doing the bare minimum required, nothing to brag about.

Faced with that, would you open the door for every bad seller to simply return to eBay claiming to be someone else, removing the only (minor) penalty? Plenty of them already sneak back, it's one of the biggest weaknesses in the system because eBay doesn't seem to have an effective system for identifying these offenders, so some of them have had careers spanning several years.

EBay does, however, respond to reports by concerned participants, and are interested in any identities connected to a NARU'ed seller.

Have you seen any remorse expressed over the illegal actions of jonathandean8, the forged covers that were sold, or any effort to compensate the victims? No, instead they were contacted to point out that there was a new eBay identity, lewisxkahn, who was prepared to fleece them again, just in case they hadn't discovered that their first purchases were fraudulent.

The modus operandi has been the same - improper references to charity fundraising, hidden shipping costs, word spamming, items such as the Verve lithographs that indicated that the same seller was at work - and remember that eBay did their own investigation of the identities so they obviously found reasonable cause for the suspension.

The best thing to say is, jonathandean8 spoiled the chances for these sellers, which is as it should be, especially when there is ample reason to suspect that there is really only just one person involved.

Theft by fraud is a serious crime, the penalty so far has been lenient, and it took too long for jd8 to be NARU'ed.

It was apparent when "Stacey" appeared here that an appeal would probably be made for the selling to continue, since the only discomfort to "lewis" was the inconvenience of listing auctions that were whacked, and the seller didn't want that to happen again.

And that's how it has played out, no surprise. Even if the seller now has decided to post honest listings, tough beans. It was wrong to victimize honest buyers by offering bogus covers as genuine, and the recent purchases of cheap covers made by the seller(s) indicate no intention to change from that pattern.

Any eBay identities connected to the bad seller should be NARU'ed and they can go see jd8 for sympathy - if it's possible for a person to cry on one's own shoulder.

I'm just saying...

-Dunc
Posted by scottpel3   ( 825 ) on Jun-12-07 at 07:59:35 PDT   Listings
I am an infrequent visitor to this board. I have been following the recent posts. Unless you are all absolutely sure that Stacy's father was being dishonest with his listings, perhaps he should be given the oportunity to list his items and have them judged on their own merits.
Stacy, I hope your father does well in Israel.

Regarding Herman Hearst, Jr. I was also fortunate to have been one of the many philatelists to have corresponded with him. He contributed to almost every philatelic organization with his knowledge and is missed.

Scott
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Jun-12-07 at 06:50:55 PDT   Listings
X= Quadrophenia

Now go off and hum some Who for a while,
(all the olde hippies already are :-} )
Posted by djs127   ( 590 ) on Jun-12-07 at 06:44:23 PDT   Listings
billsey yes the APS is looking for volunteers for the Stamp Community Watch program. Hopefully some of the knowledgeable people on this board will volunteer.
David Snyder
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-12-07 at 05:45:22 PDT   Listings
Probably.
That guess is as good as any other.
Though registered penny blacks are not common.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-12-07 at 05:19:09 PDT   Listings
IO,

and the $64,000 question which was asked in Richard F's board,

" Can anyone shed some light on why lot 32, the penny black on a registered cover brought $230,000 with an estimate of $7,500 - $10,000? REGISTERED COVER Could it be because of the two letters on the penny black are "BG" and that the money was going to charity? "

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-12-07 at 05:15:32 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

From a wet Scarsdale.

From a pre-auction estimate of $4 to $5 million, it seems the Bill Gross auction netted $9.2 million. Not quite double expectations.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1348 ) on Jun-12-07 at 04:46:38 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all



Jim L.

member
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-11-07 at 23:44:44 PDT   Listings
Good Morning , I did expect anything different. Yes Davidxflishman was a typo error and I will have to live with it. Lewis has a Doctororate in the Developement of South African Law (BA, MA Phd). He is also a lawyer BA LLB by profession but after his wife died took over her business as an art and interior decorator supplier. Yes, Browzer or Browser (we from the British English speaks Queens English and z & s and a missing o in labor are some differences) but we all(Stacey. Lewis and myself) all have one thing in common we can't spell and haven't the patience for WORD spell checkers or proof reading. Perhaps the "word spamming" program of eBay will pick it up.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-11-07 at 22:47:28 PDT   Listings
Soggy>/b> I forgot to say that he was a very gracious and sweet gentleman.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-11-07 at 22:45:43 PDT   Listings
Soggy He lived in Shrub Oak an we lived between there and Yorktown heights. I would like to get one of his mystery lots now! I was only around 10 years of age at the time but he lived in a "modest mansion" with an incredible library full of stamp books. There are many images that remain in my mind of that wonderful place, I wish I could remember all of them exactly.
Posted by soggy333   ( 55 ) on Jun-11-07 at 21:24:09 PDT   Listings
Mitchell
Did you live in Shrub Oak or Yorktown heights? One of my stamp buddies used to send for Herman Hearst mystery lots and never regretted any of them. I was a fool and still am for not believing in mystery lots. I regret all the years when visiting my parents in Yorktown Heights that I never drive the 2 miles to meet the great stamp story teller before he died.
Posted by billsey   ( 847 ) on Jun-11-07 at 21:05:52 PDT   Listings
David S, interesting links for those two pdf files at APS. The first one (Virtual.pdf) had a couple of inaccuracies, especially when he said he didn't think the SCW link hadn't been reported here! The second one (Listing.pdf) includes a link where knowledgeable people can volunteer to help APS vet the SCW reports.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-11-07 at 20:51:43 PDT   Listings
We use to have Tom Watson Sr. (of IBM fame) come over for dinner and in later years visit Herman Hearst (who lived down the road) to play with stamps. Believe it or not, those were (by far) not the best stories in my life!
Those highly educated peoples from Israel seem to beat my stories all to hell. No wonder they seem unbelievable
Now, were down on the farm with two dogs (see my updated mepage) and a disabled nurse, I call my precious.
EUSC LOGO Duh Prez...........
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 187 ) on Jun-11-07 at 20:21:19 PDT   Listings
mini*lindy Thank you.
stjohnstamps Thank you also,care to speculate in dollars?
Lynn
Posted by soggy333   ( 55 ) on Jun-11-07 at 20:20:15 PDT   Listings
David B
Keep up the good work. I think ANYONE with an X in the middle of their name is the same person , maybe even Jonathan himself and you did a hell of a job cranking him up.
It looks like the APS election was decided fairly decisively, so it was a tempest in a teapot as someone said earler. I still hope the match factory continues to grow and keep philately alive on the planet even after all the collectors have quit. I plan to be the LAST stamp collector if I live that long and the membership declines as fast as the pessimists think it will.I plan to buy all those collections fron disinterested heirs. What am I ever going to do with all those duplicates! I expect the prices to keep dropping.I hope the Chinese never develop a middle class or a taste for world wide stamps. They have way too much money for me to compete with them.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-11-07 at 20:14:44 PDT   Listings
To change the subject;
I would like to nominate Bill Gates for president.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-11-07 at 19:46:03 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. ----Thanks ,will try to put something together just to say there is a page of them with a few different varities .....paul
Posted by stjohnstamps   ( 852 ) on Jun-11-07 at 19:16:56 PDT   Listings
Lynn it is actually Chicago L2-TS (dated 6-1) , triple, unlisted in Hoover - real nice. Chicago was not included in the first 2 parts of the Gutman/Baird auctions. Many unlisted items have shown up in those sales so far fetching good prices.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-11-07 at 18:51:29 PDT   Listings
Paul, looks like Barefoot has rewritten the Hong Kong in a new South East Asia Revenue catalgue,

http://www.jbarefoot.co.uk/stock.htm?item=462

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-11-07 at 17:55:06 PDT   Listings
Paul, go and get a copy of Barefoot's British Commonwealth Revenues, they list them the Contract Notes in various shades, die types, different overprints etc. and it takes from their catalogue numbers 56 to 179 as well as the Stamp Duty from 185 to 201.

p.s. the Contract Notes simplified go up to $200 but there are also many surcharges which also go up to $200. The 1980 series of Stamp Duties go up to $1200,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-11-07 at 17:47:46 PDT   Listings
JIM-----Great,now we all can retire rich .lol

NOIP -----Does anybody have a listing of the HONG KONG stamp duty/contract note stamps.Trying to make a album page but not sure what stamps are missing and were to leave a space .These are the Q.E.II issues . I got the .20 .40 $1,$2 ,$3 ,$4,$5.$6. $10,$20,$25,$40 $50, $100,and three of the overprints $20,$40,$50 what is missing ?They are not in Scott or Yangs ....paul

Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-11-07 at 17:31:05 PDT   Listings
Looks like everything at the Gross auction sold for about double estimate.
The stamp market seems to be quite strong!!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-11-07 at 17:22:29 PDT   Listings
OK davidx

so you are connecting via bb.netvision.net, with the call passing through Kafar Qasem using IE7 and Windows XP.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 17:13:08 PDT   Listings
oh cute! Lynn!
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 187 ) on Jun-11-07 at 16:59:14 PDT   Listings
This was last weeks entry in the ABC game, but, I like it so much I felt it needed repeating.C is for Cole
And who ever said a modern stamp is wothless.
Lynn
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 16:36:13 PDT   Listings
thanks Rick, when I need to go to another ebay site I always use the links on the bottom of the home page instead of using the dot com, so I wasn't sure what Canada was.

JayJim oh dear, so I can't say THOMAS anymore when I mean Watford Gap? Funny last time I took a train thru Watford I didn't hear the MIND THE GAP message either!

Nice Bathtub chaswilly!!
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-11-07 at 16:23:23 PDT   Listings
Lews/Stacey/David/Jonathan Also, correct me if Im wrong, but a law degree is a J.D.Juris Doctornot a Ph.D.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-11-07 at 16:19:37 PDT   Listings
Duncan I believe you have hit the nail on the head. I was going to point out those similarities and you beat me to it.

Dear Lewis (or Stacey or David or Jonathan or whoever)did you ever see the movies The Three Faces of Eve or Sybil? Your chameleon act is about as interesting as watching bugs die. What do you have your 3 degrees in? Spelling the way you do, and otherwise mangling the language, theyd have to be honorary degrees from a kindergarten. Also, in your most recent incarnation as David Fleishman you were in such a hurry to create a new ID that you misspelled your own name as Flishman.

Jim
Posted by red-dog9   ( 3023 ) on Jun-11-07 at 16:13:15 PDT   Listings
MINI*LINDY
Slight correction: Ebay Canada's site is www.ebay.ca not www.ebay.com.canada - in case somebody might want to peruse that site.
Regards, Rick
Posted by duncan_doenitz   ( 120 ) on Jun-11-07 at 15:49:48 PDT   Listings
"Lewis with a PHD in Law is no idiot, neither is Stacey with her 4 degres. I have 3."

With all that intelligence and learning, it is quite remarkable that the two latest identities BOTH think iomoon is "isoon". Unless, of course, we are really seeing just one person's posts of course. Which also explains other odd similarities in their posts, such as "browser" becoming "browzer".

Also, in order to believe "Stacey", we have to believe that Lewis and Jonathan are two different people with identical traits. Given that JD8 insisted on telling a series of tall tales, all of the mysterious coincidences may have a simple explanation, if we just dig deep enough, eh?

I'm just saying...

-Dunc
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 187 ) on Jun-11-07 at 14:52:42 PDT   Listings
Egads Me thinks I aroused the Loquacious One from its slumber.
oh well

Anyway, anyone know anything about this L-3TS precancel, apparent triple strike?
L8R Lynn
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1348 ) on Jun-11-07 at 14:01:28 PDT   Listings
stjohnstamps
I was totally shut out. Unfortunately there's seldom much I really want that falls within my budget anymore. :8^(

Lately I've been trying to get all my Indiana Box cancels worked into the Indiana precancel albums. It's helped in the past to show someone that their "unlisted precancel" is actually a box cancel. If anyone has any Indiana box cancles laying around I'd be interested in a look see or a 300 dpi 1 inch high scan.

Jim L.
Posted by sayasan   ( 653 ) on Jun-11-07 at 13:49:58 PDT   Listings
davidx - get the next nine over with quickly, please. Then give us a break before the next clone appears. Ta.
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1634 ) on Jun-11-07 at 13:32:16 PDT   Listings
NOIP

B is for bathtub.

Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-11-07 at 12:56:38 PDT   Listings
To clarify that would mean "people and Places" that appear on stamps that start with the letter of the alphabet of the week. It should be a topic that everyone can join in with as the possibilities are vast.
Posted by davidxflishman   ( 0 )   on Jun-11-07 at 12:52:49 PDT   Listings
Just one short note from my wife Stacey who reached a maximum of 10 messages and learnt something in the process. She thanks David Benson for the link to an appeal and advice on listing.She also thanks all those who left cynical , sarcastic and informative remarks. I doubt if Joly message was translated correctly but the Bradford gap (wikipeadia has a geographic descripton) was interesting as used as a cliche as was "brown bread".Where does the word "Naru" and verb and adjective come from. If nothing else Stacey is straight and innocent and hurt that her father was suspended with a rating of 12 and all from purchases. I don't want to nitpick with you isoon. While websites can have fixed IP and SP addresses, the nature of email cannot by definition have the same addresses. You got that right I think. . A computer can be temporary tagged by its browzer but most browzers are set to clear themselves every day and can also be done manually.Lindy - of course she is aware of the site map below My Ebay-she thought it was a bulletin board of the same nature as this one.There are numerous sayings that are the antithesis of Lincolns saying " Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt". Stacey is no fool. It upset her that her father was suspended by association and no article on "word spanning" on the internet suggests it is a technology that is reliable and God help us all if eBay use it on its 100 million members.It will be left with 1% non-suspended members.I think from the start Lewis was aware he was treading on egg shells and openly stated who he was and what he intended to sell in his ME column.Lewis with a PHD in Law is no idiot, neither is Stacey with her 4 degres.I have 3. I suggest an Internet publication"Light Reading" all us may understand IP addresses, tagging of computers and users a bit better.Once again David-your comments and link was of assistance. I just wish all the Forum members showed the positive and helpful maturity of your replies.Lewis if he is unsuspended will cerainly change his listing approach endorsed by Lindy.No need to count Lindy-this is it. 10.45pm I am off to bed.Layla Tov . Good Night.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 632 ) on Jun-11-07 at 12:50:59 PDT   Listings
Alec, Peter etal. I thought there was some consensus
as to doing the A-Z this time for theme/topic of people and places. I think it got started but not much has been offered. If I remember correctly we should be on "D" this week, but could of course start over.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 542 ) on Jun-11-07 at 12:36:16 PDT   Listings
ABC continuation My vote is for it to continue if anyone so wishes to contribute. As to how the weekly topic or theme is chosen I leave for others to decide. Nominating a specific theme though may limit many from showing anything.

I also think it would be better if items previously posted on the last round of ABC showings were not shown again this time around.

For anyone wishing to participate and doesn't know how to upload images for viewing here please don't be shy just holler for help.It isn't really that difficult once you know how. Yes you might screw up the links but even those of us who have been posting here a long long time screw up also. So don't be afraid to ask. Have a go and join in. It doesn't have to be a rare item or even an expensive stamp.You don't even have to explain anything about what you are showing if you don't want to. It is just a way to have some harmless simple fun.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-11-07 at 12:09:38 PDT   Listings
Apologies to all for prolonging the discussion today but I couldn't help pulling his willy wonker:-) Also shows how wicked and productive humour can be and board members here are no exception to the art. Perhaps this is a better form of throwing insults?
Rodger That brought back memories I remember my father had a similar book as well.
Mitch We should open up the weekly topic for discussion as Lynn has asked the question. Could we run through the ABC choosing a theme or themes for each week. Anyone else got any ideas/suggestions/braindumps?
Peter
Posted by djs127   ( 590 ) on Jun-11-07 at 11:56:24 PDT   Listings
Seems to be some movement on APS & Stamp Community Watch.
See http://www.stamps.org/Ebay/Virtual.pdf and http://www.stamps.org/Ebay/Listing.pdf
David Snyder
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-11-07 at 11:35:19 PDT   Listings
jaywild -
My guess is that most Americans could not describe a "water closet". Other than that, I must add my father many years ago owned the "Crapper" book, and thought it funny because he remembered as a kid, circa 1920's, seeing "crapper" written everywhere and firmly believed the story to be true.

BTW - When I asked him oncee what he considered the most important invention in his lifetime he said the jet passenger plane. He remembered small biplanes from 1920 and found it incredible that he could fly in comfort back and forth non-stop from San Francisco to Europe to play golf. )'>) He fit in visits to relatives as well. He saw the whole evolution of the airplane before he died. If you think about it our current commercial airplanes are all 1960's designs. We are way overdue for a new version of flying.

Roger
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3661 ) on Jun-11-07 at 11:33:13 PDT   Listings

Re Thomas Crapper, au contraire. While it is legend he invented it, he was the first to really mass market it, turn of the XXth century.

Incidentally the famous palace at Versailles, built to host perhaps a thousand, had not a single potty.

I am an expert in this matter, I saw a TV show a couple days ago about the subject. Grin.
Posted by malolo   ( 841 ) on Jun-11-07 at 11:28:09 PDT   Listings
mini-lindy -
"gosh, thought we'd never get to TEN !"

I was thinking the same when I logged on only to discover the messages continued through the midnight hour and the count restarted. Please don't anyone explain it's best to post a single message. In the specific individual's case we are better off having 10 in a row then nothing. LOL

Roger
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 187 ) on Jun-11-07 at 11:13:28 PDT   Listings
WOW! I missed a lot since yesterday. Reminds me of Abe Lincoln; "Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt". BTW, are we still doin' the ABC thing? Lynn
Posted by jaywild   ( 951 ) on Jun-11-07 at 10:36:39 PDT   Listings
Lindy my dear Thomas Crapper is, alas, an urban legend with no basis in fact. The word crap has been around since the early 19th Century, long before the flush toilet came along.

Crappers claim to fame was created satirically by the same wag who claimed that the brassiere was invented by a man named Otto Titzling.

?

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Jun-11-07 at 08:55:33 PDT   Listings
Technology of the Internet is a hobby of mine



Loved that .
It's like the song that never ends.
I'm going to teach it to my friends"
Posted by stjohnstamps   ( 852 ) on Jun-11-07 at 08:41:55 PDT   Listings
JimL did you get any IN precancels at the Gutman sale? Prices were very strong. I was nearly shut out. Hoagland IN cost somebody 632$.
Posted by djs127   ( 590 ) on Jun-11-07 at 08:16:54 PDT   Listings
Spent some time Sunday putting in used 32 & 33 cent used US stamps in my national album. I wonder how I will get used copies of stamps from many of the sheets the USPS has been putting out recently?
On definitives does anyone know of a good site which explains differences in die cuts for various recent issues?
Thanks,
David Snyder
Posted by nomad55   ( 897 ) on Jun-11-07 at 07:26:12 PDT   Listings
Looks like Jonathan and his minions are back with a new ID. Lets track it, and when the first item of crap is listed.....WHAM, lets send them back to the Island of Naru.
Posted by vinnysf   ( 490 ) on Jun-11-07 at 07:08:45 PDT   Listings
ebay's sitemap is also the only way I know of to get the "end your listing early" form.
Posted by ed845   ( 4482 ) on Jun-11-07 at 06:59:49 PDT   Listings
Strewth, love a duck. staceyxfleishman has certainly caused a ripple on this board.
Has anyone told him that every post he makes causes another to scroll off. If he has been informed does he care?

For those of you that might be slightly interested, Watford Football Club has nothing to do with the Watford Gap.

The Watford Gap is the last service area on the MI before the motorway splits into the M1 and the M6. It used to be notorious as a place where ladies of the night used to gather.

Watford Football Club is just north of London and has connections with Elton John.

Brown Bread for the benefit of our ex colonial or mandate chums is slang for dead.

Please dont thank me for this load of uninteresting rubbish but it does read better than some of the other stuff posted here today.
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Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-11-07 at 05:37:54 PDT   Listings
D2 Fast response from the seller of those items, he is looking into it. Let's give it a couple of days.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-11-07 at 05:30:56 PDT   Listings
Without giving too much away to stacey, each web address is unique. My web site has one, and only one ID #. When you sign on with AOL, MSN or whatever, the chances of you getting the same ID # twice are miniscule, since the ISP's own millions, more probably billions, of web ID #'s.

Can someone translate Menntaskolinn (with an accent) for me please.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 05:17:17 PDT   Listings
Sorry to disagree Anne it is just people like stacey, be they buyers or sellers, who don't even know what the Site Map is, that cause all kinds of problems for both themselves and others on ebay.
I am a firm believer that in order to registered on eBay you should have to do a short buying or selling tutorial before your account could be activated. That would, I believe, eliminate more than 50% of the Oh I didnt know thats how ebay worked! complaints I see over and over again.
New ebayers don't have to know the finer points but they DO need to know how ebay works.

Linda
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-11-07 at 05:11:34 PDT   Listings
or even to Pontius Pilate.
Good morning Jim, I knew we could rely on you to cap it, even if you have been away from the gates of rome for too long:-)
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Jun-11-07 at 05:03:29 PDT   Listings
Morning/afternoon/evening from a sunny NJ. Beginning the weekly countdown to Friday.

Linda I'd cut Stacey a break on her knowledge of the fine points of the site. People explore eBay at their own rate and according to their own needs. Two months is not a long time to figure out the intricacies of listing policies if you're a casual observer.

Stacey: David B is right about overly elaborate listings. They make it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff and tend to be interpreted as hype. Now if the information is philatelic in nature--i.e., why this particular overprint or cancel is unusual, that's something else. But most ordinary items don't merit that kind of detail.

Anne
Posted by iomoon   ( 1051 ) on Jun-11-07 at 04:55:30 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

To translate some of roly's dialectic English; in this case the north and south is located near the Khyber pass, which also happens to be an easy way to Watford Gap. Seeing as one of roly's specialties is the one penny universal, it is not inappropriate to comment that stacey's linguistic efforts to pay a penny leave roly praying to the porcelain god.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-11-07 at 04:54:36 PDT   Listings
Peter, that was a very good scan and that is what is needed especially for overprints. That particular overprint is easy to plate as there are (or rather make that were) blocks that were plated and the variations of th bars recorded together with the breaks in the lines.

David B.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 04:14:48 PDT   Listings
Taken from the last name of the man who invented the apparatus!
yep, works South of the Thames too!
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-11-07 at 03:51:35 PDT   Listings
D2 Thanks for the update, not buying just studying overprints and that was a good scan. Not sure if Bow Bells can be heard in Putney but maybe Linda can clarify Watford Gap:-)
Stacey/JD/LK you still don't get the message do you. It has nothing whatsoever to do with tagging IP adresses. I don't see why I should help you in this matter and clog the board up if you can't work it out for yourself especially as you claim to be an internet expert, you have left a trail a mile long:-)
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1348 ) on Jun-11-07 at 03:46:51 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Whats probably most revealing about the APS election is the number of members that did not vote.
While Dan Walker's smear tactics were a disappointment to me, his statements were all true.

Jim L.

member
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 02:04:42 PDT   Listings
gosh, thought we'd never get to TEN !
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-11-07 at 01:59:37 PDT   Listings
Peter, yes that Bonny River 2 1/2d. Provisional is absolutely genuine with the cancel over the overprint. It can be easily plated. They were printed from a forme of 8 stereos which was repeated for each row, that one is position 7 in the row of 8.

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8316 ) on Jun-11-07 at 01:52:54 PDT   Listings
Grenwave, over to you although I don't know you can explain rhyming slang for Watford Gap without using expletives.

Stacey, firstly could you please note that Paypal would love to get into Israel and every country in the world but it must be Israeli banks or Tax laws that is stopping it.

To answer your other question, of course you can list the material tourself but I would advise you to forget copying Johnathan D's style and all the hogwash that goes into the descriptions, that is just a waste of time and effort and no one takes any notice of it and is more of a deterrent to sales than an advantage. Just list the item clearly and precisely, no flowery descriptions, straight to the point with clear scans, that is all that is needed.

No, Australian's don't talk like that, it is just an act or for TV programs although rhyming slang is often used but usually for a joke.

David B.
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 01:34:38 PDT   Listings
Linda are you referring to the SITE MAP below My Ebay at the top of every ebayers page.
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 01:33:12 PDT   Listings
May I ask you what the Watford gap is.I take it you are British? Some of the items we have for sale are a collection of Elton John signatures and quite a few on Watford Football Club day of the match programs.Not sure how "brown bread " has been used either. I for one only eat wholewheat brown bread. Why so crypric or is this like Roly's comment-the expressions of the English dialect you use
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 01:25:21 PDT   Listings
greenwave4u-I am aware of the word spamming policy but openly my father liked jonathandean8 eduction listing style (or that of his cousins) . The items listed will be similar and the spammimg policy could work. But as pointed out to David there are 100's of thousands of similar stamp dealers. and 10's of thousand with the same style of listing.My father had an hour long Live Help session on the issue.Why they change the customer service rep every 10 to 15 minutes is disturbing. Some are clearly more knowledable and willing to discuss sensitive issues. Word Spamming is in its infancy. In Israel they still use graphology and that has never developed into word spammingdepite the fact that Israel is second only to Silicon Valley in start-up investment. They call it quaintly Silicon Wadi.
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 01:13:59 PDT   Listings
heenwave 4u-perhaps you know more about whether eBbay tag computers.I have had a long descussion with an expert on the issue and with the server technical boffins my father uses.THere bottom line is anything is possible (in fact Israeli technology tags Internet gamblers and "gambling adverts" appear on your pages more often but both Microsoft and software packages such as AD ware SE Professional prevent tagging. If anything it will be a temporary cookie in your browzer and that normally is deleted with ease.Israel Supreme Court also outlawed adverts on software packages and no doubt the US Federal courts did the same as been "invasive'. The bottom line of the technical boffins of which i am knowledable but NO expert is that the IP and SP address your server gives you changes every time you use it. The IP and SP address of the server changes randomly as does your own.The only thing you can establish is perhaps country and then for a small payment -the server will give you a random country IP and SP address.You may be a boffin and want to comment.

As for similar material-yes-one one we own the late Ralph Putzels's massive mail auction liquidation stock.His mail auctions were not only philatelic, he also had more general auction-anything on paper. My late Mom and Father nafter she died of cancer took over her interior decoration business -actually we were suppliers ti the sector and held large stocks of lithographs especially Verve,XXe Siecle and Derriere lithographs, African art on cloth and art on canvases that we have no idea how to ship. So far we have shipped everything flat. art shops in Israel only have small roll and it is from the material selers that we have come to an arrangement regarding the longer and larger rolls. Then there is of course US postal history both purchased and inherited . At least we own every possible reference even if not up to date.

Technology of the Internet is a hobby of mine. I am curious what ebay does with its enormous budget just like I am curious as Jonathandean8 was why so few banking systenms are recognised by paypal as a repatriation of proceeds banking system.Tax law plays a part but then filling in an IRS is a declaration-true or false-and the Internet exists in space rather than in a partivcular country or where the servers are based.Yet Paupal recognised Mexico and Poland but not Israel with 7 banks in the op 100 and 2 in the top 25.With over 100 million members -the leverage must be enormous especially ifbanks get a % of all transfers from overseas into it. In fact in Israel one of the worst exanmples of heavy bank charges there is a charge per line -a charge for every ATM transaction of 5 shekels ($1.25). My husband works in Interntational Banking-the latter is his contributionbut it baffles him why paypal does not use its immense leverage of 100 plus million members. An estimated 100,000 Israeli sellers would use ebay if they could repatriate the proceeds of the sale. The status quo is that it has to go through a US account and well the Patriot Act and Sannes Oxley Acts (which is more how business is too be carried out) makes that nearly impossible.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:55:16 PDT   Listings
Stacey that's a load of flower and frolics, and watford gap. eBay in case you didn't know has a links policy as well as a word spamming policy. I suggest you avail yourself of its contents. I repeat there are direct links between JD and LK and if you can't sus that then your protestations are brown bread.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:43:17 PDT   Listings
WHY would a newcomer start on a Site (ebay or anywhere else) without first referring to the Site Map and finding out how the site operates? is a better question.
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:42:31 PDT   Listings
greenwave4u In terms of material -we have very similar material to what Jonathandean8 listed althoght in certain areas far more and more africana, judaica and americana.In terms of listing style we like his style even if it was according to him those of his cousins. It is educational and whether the buyer wnts to read all the appendages it up to him. We will keep the description limited and the appendages will follow. We also like the idea of goving our references except the obvious wikipedia-we are not sure what to do with that free Internet reference that is truely wonderful but yes does contain garbage if you don't read right to the bottom of the page.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:37:44 PDT   Listings
SITE MAP. top of EVERY EBAY PAGE
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:35:20 PDT   Listings
Linda where is the site map. Are you referering to the sight map on thhe members page. Why would a new comer know about the SITE MAP.I have received an email about some legal issue related to ebay 's liability .(I suppose expsure to litigation) but would like to be better informed. Can you link m to the Announcement Site.
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:28:55 PDT   Listings
Apologies-it is the right link and a page where you can appeal openned up untder the person suspended perogrative to lodge an appeal. "The "Email us" still requires logging in. Anyway thank you David. I am told that the Israeli slang is the most difficult for a Hebrew to understand but after Roly's comment , I wonder. If I sound like a chip off the old block.I am but my father isn't all that old and if I sound like a school teacher--I taught science in Gugulutu an African township before making aliyah.(immigrating to Israel).
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:21:10 PDT   Listings
morning Linda:-)
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:18:00 PDT   Listings
Thank you David but when you get to "email Us" you have to log in. I supose I can appeal his suspension. The other link is wrong.

Roly-you may well speak excellent Aaustralian gibberish for cyryptic remarks but that is exactly why people who are not part of the inner circle are intimidated by the Forum.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:17:40 PDT   Listings
morning, Peter! :o)
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:16:40 PDT   Listings
Well what a way to start a new week, log in this morning and see an old record being played. Stacey, unfortunately you seem to have inherited the same verbal spherical objects as your relations. What you see to fail to realise is that you have left a trail of evidence that links JD and LxK directly.

David, I will have a pop at reporting those earlier listings you mentioned. Meanwhile can you tell me if this overprint has been applied after the CDS? It sures looks like it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/68-BRITTISH-COMM-NIGER-COAST-SC-54-FINE-CANCEL_W0QQitemZ260075650693QQihZ016QQcategoryZ263QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

cheers

Peter
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:15:57 PDT   Listings
announcements is just another link on the Site Map, and I cannot believe you have had an ebay membership for 2 months and still not read all the information on the site map. eBay issue at least about 4 or 5 Announcements every month, every ebayer needs to read them all.

you list in the currency of the board you list on, so to sell in euros you would have to register with one of the european ebay sites. to sell in US$ registered with the ebay.com board, to sell in Canadian $ registered with ebay.com.canada.
but you cant do ANYTHING properly until you read and learn the ebay way, via the SITE MAP
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:08:41 PDT   Listings
Lindy-is there an nnouncement board or do they send an email to every one. If their is an anouncement board please give me the link and yes on reading his policy I get your point and agree with you.Are all of his sales automatically translated from US to EROS and vice versa.We wanted to list all our sales in EUROs but are registered on the US Ebay, is it possible to choose your currency you want to sell on that Board.David, you did not answer my rhetorical questionon what would happen if I started selling.?.
Posted by staceyxfleishman   ( 0 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:03:23 PDT   Listings
Roly-If it wasn't for the Sheila-i would never guess that yourv comment was about me. I thought that the Australians spoke English. My goodness do they really speak like you do.would you like to give it to me in the Queens English you learnt at school what you meant
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 380 ) on Jun-11-07 at 00:03:01 PDT   Listings
stacey, dbenson states he accepts Visa or Mastercards as a payment option in those currencies, NOT that he accepts cash.
whenever ebay change any rules all ebayers are notified via the ebay Announcements board, both when the decision is made and later when the ruling is implimented. There are many ebayers out there, like yourselves, that just happily go along, never reading the Announcements, never reading the Site Map, and then say OH DEARIE ME, I didn't know,!!
well, it is your place to know if you wish to avail yourself of the site.