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07:51:06pm
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" 4 smaller sheets"
This should be "4 smaller panes"
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10:03:14pm
"This should be "4 smaller panes""
picky, picky, picky!
Sorry, not really trying to be a pane!
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How about this,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284753926179
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They have the cheek to say:-
"Very well maintained and handled with care."
Its so poor I wouldn't give them 1 cent for it!!
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09:53:21pm
Notice it says "may not ship to Canada". He obviously knows we're too smart to fall for his BS. Seriously though, why do people do things like this? The seller can't possibly think anyone will buy the item!! This type of crap is all over E-Bay!
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"Seriously though, why do people do things like this? ....This type of crap is all over E-Bay! "
It is all over the world actually. People do it because every once on a while someone gets sucked into these scams.
I am getting calls at work from a company you can't trace and people who want to help me with my Google listing. Every day! You ask them for their address and tell tehm you want to write them a cheque. No - they say. You can only pay by credit or debit. I used my rarely used vocabulary on them. Actually I use them as a stress reliever - can't really share how opean I am with them.
Then, evenings I go to Wal-Mart to do my shopping; self check out, last screen, nice voice asking "WOULD YOU LIKE TO DONATE TODAY?" There are options $1 , $2, $5...can't remember themall, but I know the FY option I am lookingh for is not there! Scammers!
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Seller has zero feedback.... did anyone else catch the user name? 
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".... did anyone else catch the user name?"
Yup!
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I did, and I couldn't resist, I send him a little note telling him that I have seven (7) copies of the stamp
and I was willing to let him have them for about $5.00 each, needless to say that I never got a reply, nor do I expect one.
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12:55:29pm
"every once on a while someone gets sucked into these scams"
It would not be a philatelist, surely!!
I'm noticing since the Queen died that an awful lot of cheap QEII stuff, especially common stamps from many different countries, are being listed at ridiculous prices. Nothing like trying to take advantage!!
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01:12:01pm
What I notice a lot is that when you look up an item the prices are all over the place. As an example I have my wife's mother's RAF cap badge from WWII and just for the heck of it I looked it up on E-Bay, not that I would ever sell it! By the way, that's a sad story since my wife was the end of her family and there is no one left to give family stuff to. But, that's not the point. I saw prices for the cap badge, which is very common, from $10 up to $100. If I were trying to sell an object I would check prices and try to get in close to the bottom. Even if I had a lot invested in an object it seems very stupid to list it at a price that would make it not sale-able!! No sensible person (maybe that's the problem) is going to pay 10 times more than he/she has to. And you always have to look at shipping prices!!
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eBay opportunists are out there!
In the model car hobby, one of the manufacturers has been restoring old tooling and offering up new copies of car kits that we haven't seen in 20-50 years. All above board with explanations on the box bottoms, along with their current address with zip code, web site and bar codes. Retail price around $30.
When a new kit gets released, opportunists will list them up at $100+ hoping to catch people sleeping! With an original kit selling for $200, people quickly hit the Buy It Now button!
Even worse are the sellers who will list them at $100-200 in the real car section, under parts.... with wording like "This is the only one I have..." hoping to fleece a real car owner who wants a model of his car but has no idea of the market!
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Some sellers like any scammer usually rely on percentages. Ones does not need to swindle everyone but they can usually get a few each time. For example, for the ebay seller that posts a common stamp and asks $10,000 it only takes one to get a sale.
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05:45:30pm
"... for the ebay seller that posts a common stamp
and asks $10,000 it only takes one to get a sale. ...
That is the same motive that drives the Nigerian Prince
scammers and their ilk.
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""... for the ebay seller that posts a common stamp
and asks $10,000 ...""
Let's reverse that... some eBay sellers are dumb as rocks and think just because they have a stamp from 1930, it has to be worth a fortune!
I see this every day on the Facebook stamp pages. People who are constantly posting torn copies of 30 year old stamps asking "How much?"
And of course the trolling for suckers on eBay is encouraged since there are no posting fees! Then again I once had a meter stamp cover for sale for $199 because I missed a decimal point.
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11 Oct 2022
07:51:06pm
I've seen something on E-Bay that hopefully none of us would be sucked in by! A lot of US stamps have vertical or horizontal lines above, below or on either side of the stamps. These lines are there because much larger sheets were cut along these lines to form 4 smaller sheets. I have seen stamps on E-Bay advertised for huge prices because of these "rare and mysterious" lines!! I have a couple actually marked with arrows in the margins of the stamps. GOK what they would try to sell something like that for. I have several line pairs where the two stamps are from two adjacent unseparated sheets. How many thousands would they try to sell line pairs for? The mind boggles!!
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08:44:22pm
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" 4 smaller sheets"
This should be "4 smaller panes"
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11 Oct 2022
10:03:14pm
re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
"This should be "4 smaller panes""
picky, picky, picky!
Sorry, not really trying to be a pane!
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How about this,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284753926179
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08:28:40pm
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re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
They have the cheek to say:-
"Very well maintained and handled with care."
Its so poor I wouldn't give them 1 cent for it!!
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12 Oct 2022
09:53:21pm
re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
Notice it says "may not ship to Canada". He obviously knows we're too smart to fall for his BS. Seriously though, why do people do things like this? The seller can't possibly think anyone will buy the item!! This type of crap is all over E-Bay!
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re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
"Seriously though, why do people do things like this? ....This type of crap is all over E-Bay! "
It is all over the world actually. People do it because every once on a while someone gets sucked into these scams.
I am getting calls at work from a company you can't trace and people who want to help me with my Google listing. Every day! You ask them for their address and tell tehm you want to write them a cheque. No - they say. You can only pay by credit or debit. I used my rarely used vocabulary on them. Actually I use them as a stress reliever - can't really share how opean I am with them.
Then, evenings I go to Wal-Mart to do my shopping; self check out, last screen, nice voice asking "WOULD YOU LIKE TO DONATE TODAY?" There are options $1 , $2, $5...can't remember themall, but I know the FY option I am lookingh for is not there! Scammers!
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re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
Seller has zero feedback.... did anyone else catch the user name?
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re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
".... did anyone else catch the user name?"
Yup!
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I did, and I couldn't resist, I send him a little note telling him that I have seven (7) copies of the stamp
and I was willing to let him have them for about $5.00 each, needless to say that I never got a reply, nor do I expect one.
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14 Oct 2022
12:55:29pm
re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
"every once on a while someone gets sucked into these scams"
It would not be a philatelist, surely!!
I'm noticing since the Queen died that an awful lot of cheap QEII stuff, especially common stamps from many different countries, are being listed at ridiculous prices. Nothing like trying to take advantage!!
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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
14 Oct 2022
01:12:01pm
re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
What I notice a lot is that when you look up an item the prices are all over the place. As an example I have my wife's mother's RAF cap badge from WWII and just for the heck of it I looked it up on E-Bay, not that I would ever sell it! By the way, that's a sad story since my wife was the end of her family and there is no one left to give family stuff to. But, that's not the point. I saw prices for the cap badge, which is very common, from $10 up to $100. If I were trying to sell an object I would check prices and try to get in close to the bottom. Even if I had a lot invested in an object it seems very stupid to list it at a price that would make it not sale-able!! No sensible person (maybe that's the problem) is going to pay 10 times more than he/she has to. And you always have to look at shipping prices!!
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re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
eBay opportunists are out there!
In the model car hobby, one of the manufacturers has been restoring old tooling and offering up new copies of car kits that we haven't seen in 20-50 years. All above board with explanations on the box bottoms, along with their current address with zip code, web site and bar codes. Retail price around $30.
When a new kit gets released, opportunists will list them up at $100+ hoping to catch people sleeping! With an original kit selling for $200, people quickly hit the Buy It Now button!
Even worse are the sellers who will list them at $100-200 in the real car section, under parts.... with wording like "This is the only one I have..." hoping to fleece a real car owner who wants a model of his car but has no idea of the market!
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re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
Some sellers like any scammer usually rely on percentages. Ones does not need to swindle everyone but they can usually get a few each time. For example, for the ebay seller that posts a common stamp and asks $10,000 it only takes one to get a sale.
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15 Oct 2022
05:45:30pm
re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
"... for the ebay seller that posts a common stamp
and asks $10,000 it only takes one to get a sale. ...
That is the same motive that drives the Nigerian Prince
scammers and their ilk.
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re: How dumb do some E-Bay sellers think we are?
""... for the ebay seller that posts a common stamp
and asks $10,000 ...""
Let's reverse that... some eBay sellers are dumb as rocks and think just because they have a stamp from 1930, it has to be worth a fortune!
I see this every day on the Facebook stamp pages. People who are constantly posting torn copies of 30 year old stamps asking "How much?"
And of course the trolling for suckers on eBay is encouraged since there are no posting fees! Then again I once had a meter stamp cover for sale for $199 because I missed a decimal point.
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