Certain sites are more suited to second hand garden implements and the sort of rubbish we put in car boot sales. For stamp sales use this excellent Community, the prospective customer is liable to be more supportive and much more grateful of the product.
I agree that the endless listings of the same can be frustrating... but I find advanced search is able to circumnavigate most of my issues, and then I can "save" the search and use it whenever.
Personally, I collect (among other things) Sweden, and the Sweden section is 75% mint booklets and FDCs, in which I have ZERO interest. So a search on Sweden -booklet -FDC gets it narrowed down. You just have to figure out what it is you don't wish to look at.
On the whole, ebay is more positive than negative, in my experience.
Quote: Scanstamps, If you think ebay is a good site you would absolutely love bidStart. It is fabulous by comparison.
I do occasionally go over to BidStart. The basic functionality is nice, but I find that their "no listing fees" policy creates a different search issue... namely that there are thousands and thousands of stamps listed for each country, and I find it hard to filter the ones that have been listed for five years from the ones that were listed (completely NEW listings, not RE-lists) in the past... say... 30 days.
Delcampe has a bit of the same issue, but has worked around it by having a HUGE number of subcategories for each country, so you can drill down to what you're looking for.
Perhaps the single search feature I miss MOST on ALL these sites is the capacity to sort results by "lot ID number." All the sites assign "auction numbers" in ascending numerical order... so if I could sort my search results "by ID number, descending" I could easily look at ONLY recently listed material.
It's perhaps the ONE place where ebay's high fees work in their favor. Few sellers are going to list material likely to just "sit there" for five years till someone comes along to buy it if they have to pay 20 cents per month, per listing, to have it there.
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Posted 02/03/2012 10:35 pm
