eBay

paulhua3 · ‎05-27-2019

Millions of stamps listed on eBay. For some reason eBay chose to end one of my listings and the best the CSR could come up with is "We're not sure if its real." If that's their reasoning, they better hire a few hundred workers to start taking down all the listings where eBay "can't be sure if it's real." Won't be much left here after that.

Just for the record, I do not list fake, counterfeit, or replica stamps.

ed8108 · ‎05-27-2019

@paulhua3 wrote:
Millions of stamps listed on eBay. For some reason eBay chose to end one of my listings and the best the CSR could come up with is "We're not sure if its real." If that's their reasoning, they better hire a few hundred workers to start taking down all the listings where eBay "can't be sure if it's real." Won't be much left here after that.

Just for the record, I do not list fake, counterfeit, or replica stamps.

I assume it to be a very high dollar stamp, perhaps a suspected fantasy ?

duncanvr · ‎05-27-2019

I'm also doing stamps but on envelopes before 1901. I bet it was someone on eBay who reported it fake, maybe another seller who has the same one for sale? If you want to see fake listings, just look in the ancient coin section. China sellers continue to list fake ancient coins and nothing ever happens to their fake listings, nothing ever.

richard1rst · ‎05-27-2019

I remember as a young’un collecting stamps. There was at the time somebody who produced a line of stamps for an imaginary country that didn’t even exist. Don't remember the name but it was some island or bay supposedly in the North Sea. They were always mixed in with what were called “penny approvals”: I believe they are referred to as “Cinderella”: stamps. Even though we knew they were fake and worthless we still collected them just so we could say I have the whole set and you don’t. Hey, we were kids - what did we know. I wouldn’t be surprised if just because of their novelty that they actually had some value today.

And in any event - Easter Seals aren’t “real” stamps.

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand

ed8108 · ‎05-27-2019

@duncanvr wrote:
I'm also doing stamps but on envelopes before 1901. I bet it was someone on eBay who reported it fake, maybe another seller who has the same one for sale?

I would guess receiving one or even a few reports questioning authenticity would be insufficient.

Did ebay have a world class authenticator as their consultant ?

Perhaps this stamp can be submitted for some lab study & analysis which would hopefully confirm it real & satisfy ebay.

heyyoufoundit · ‎05-27-2019

So funny. No ebay employee or user ever sees the 'real' stamp. But they doubt the authenticity of a picture of 'some' stamp.

escuintla · ‎05-27-2019

@richard1rst wrote:
I remember as a young’un collecting stamps. There was at the time somebody who produced a line of stamps for an imaginary country that didn’t even exist. Don't remember the name but it was some island or bay supposedly in the North Sea. They were always mixed in with what were called “penny approvals”: I believe they are referred to as “Cinderella”: stamps. Even though we knew they were fake and worthless we still collected them just so we could say I have the whole set and you don’t. Hey, we were kids - what did we know. I wouldn’t be surprised if just because of their novelty that they actually had some value today.

And in any event - Easter Seals aren’t “real” stamps.

I think Lundy island comes to mind?

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escuintla · ‎05-27-2019

Sometimes, you make a decision you will regret for the rest of your life. I would be so afraid to sell on Ebay the stamp collection I gave up years ago.

I bought an exquisite Chinese stamp collection. 5 32 page albums 7 rows, 9 columns up to the brim with PRC stamps. I paid $190 in an auction, don't ask me how I got lucky, but I did. A Chinese guy I knew wanted to see them and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets when he saw what I got. But he went cheap and wanted to pay only $1500. I said no thanks! He warned me that the day I would be broke was coming.

That day came, and we hassled for $3,500

I knew about Ebay then, but I was more into collecting than selling. 3 years later, I saw that I had most of the revolution stamps, except for a lady and a monkey and one or two souvenir sheets. Besides the dragons, goose, you name the old stamps, I gave him about $200-350,000 worth of stamps for $3,500. But I made some profit, right?

Learn to live, live to learn.

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popeye3165 · ‎05-28-2019

Hello and I'm sorry to hear about your listing problem. USUALLY eBay will claim that your listing was reported by another seller or buyer and that's why they cancelled it. Beware when listing and relisting since I have heard eBay has a 3 strike rule and may suspend your account but this you should verify as I have not confirmed it.

It's getting harder and harder to sell on eBay good luck to you.

Good luck to ALL the small sellers out there!

paulhua3 · ‎06-09-2019

@escuintla wrote:
I think Lundy island comes to mind?

There are many nowadays, including, but not limited to, Sealand, a platform off the coast of England; Staffa, an uninhabited island belonging to Scotland--though there may be a caretaker there; many Indian states that use the stamps of India, naturally, such as Nagaland; some of the Russian republics that use stamps of Russia, such as Bashkortostan; Redonda, a rocky uninhabited island of Antigua and Barbuda. There are more...

As to the stamp that eBay delisted, it was a modern African nation stamp with a listed price of around $3.00.

Not a rarity at all. Many of the modern African countries stamps are listed in the Scott Catalogs years after they are issued because it is difficult to determine what's real and what isn't. I suspect a dealer of stamps from the same country reported it, though he has no such listing, and would have no better idea than Scott of the authenticity of the stamp (actually a souvenir sheet). I have no way of knowing that either, except that I bought it from a reputable new issues dealer and so assume it is genuine. The CSR who said "eBay thinks it might be a fake" is blowing flatulent smoke--as far as I know eBay does not employ a single person knowledgeable in the philatelic world.

BTW, I have no intention of relisting the same item on eBay. eBay does not seem to want anything low-priced on their platform, though they are always encouraging us to lower our prices.

Finally, my collectible store is an anchor store with nearly 14,000 listings on several eBay sites. This item is of very little importance--I just wanted to gripe about it--and we got carried off to other topics along the way.