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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Irritating auction sites

 

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sheepshanks
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24 Apr 2017
08:04:58pm
Have just been looking online at a stamp auction and am appalled by the lousy photos which, apart from being mostly out of focus, show so few a number of stamps / pages that it is impossible from the given description to formulate any idea of the value or content.
As an example one item describes 272 stamps and the image is of one page showing just 5 stamps.
How on earth do they expect people to bid on these sort of lots.
If only all the auction houses would follow Catawiki's lead in having scan / image of each page.
OK rant over, time for a cuppa.

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Al
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25 Apr 2017
07:26:51am
re: Irritating auction sites

Yes, it is amazing what images people post for items they want to sell even when it deals with expensive stamps. The image is part of the creating sales appeal.

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25 Apr 2017
07:35:37pm
re: Irritating auction sites

These lessons apply to more than "a stamp auction site. "
They apply to our own auction section.
I skip one seller in particular due to his, or her,
tiny and sometimes blurry scans.
During nthe time when I have skipped over huis offerings I have managed to buy or win close to 9,000 lots. I suppose it is only a speculation, but I think the odds are good that I might have chosen ay least one of his lots, had I been able to see what was being offered clesrly, without using a magnifier.

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sheepshanks
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25 Apr 2017
07:52:36pm
re: Irritating auction sites

Hope that wasn't me, I do try to make my scans as good as possible, but reducing image size does not help. Hopefully someone will tell me if they have problems with my scans.

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sheepshanks

24 Apr 2017
08:04:58pm

Have just been looking online at a stamp auction and am appalled by the lousy photos which, apart from being mostly out of focus, show so few a number of stamps / pages that it is impossible from the given description to formulate any idea of the value or content.
As an example one item describes 272 stamps and the image is of one page showing just 5 stamps.
How on earth do they expect people to bid on these sort of lots.
If only all the auction houses would follow Catawiki's lead in having scan / image of each page.
OK rant over, time for a cuppa.

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Al
Collector, Moderator
25 Apr 2017
07:26:51am

re: Irritating auction sites

Yes, it is amazing what images people post for items they want to sell even when it deals with expensive stamps. The image is part of the creating sales appeal.

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
25 Apr 2017
07:35:37pm

re: Irritating auction sites

These lessons apply to more than "a stamp auction site. "
They apply to our own auction section.
I skip one seller in particular due to his, or her,
tiny and sometimes blurry scans.
During nthe time when I have skipped over huis offerings I have managed to buy or win close to 9,000 lots. I suppose it is only a speculation, but I think the odds are good that I might have chosen ay least one of his lots, had I been able to see what was being offered clesrly, without using a magnifier.

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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
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sheepshanks

25 Apr 2017
07:52:36pm

re: Irritating auction sites

Hope that wasn't me, I do try to make my scans as good as possible, but reducing image size does not help. Hopefully someone will tell me if they have problems with my scans.

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