Are These Perforations Possible?

The confrontational approach isn't going to take you very far. Running in circles.

There are other ways.

Is that post directed at someone in particular or are you generalizing?

you = anyone but here it is especially anyone connected to Stamp Smarter. It is meant as a caveat more than an accusation.

It is a preamble to a proposal I intend to make, if anyone still cares. Maybe it's too late.

Go ahead - make your proposal. God Bless You.

Okay. But hang on a bit. I am submitting it directly to Don, first, on Wednesday. No surprises.

I am pretty sure that I am what happened (in part).
About a year ago, NYSTAMPS strung an ebay dispute out long enough that the Resolution Center would not help me out. So I went to the APS. They got the issue resolved for me within a week. What I can say is that NYSTAMPS is not and never has been a member of the APS - HOWEVER - the gentleman who owns the company is indeed a Life Member. If he sells as himself he can claim the membership, otherwise no.

And yes, Sun Philatelie/Sun Philatelics/Sun Philate LLC is the same person. On ebay, I believe that NYSTAMPS is the consignment arm of his business while CKSTAMPS is where "store-owned" material is markeed.

I still buy stuff from him - eyes wide open. I have found some bargains for my collections, but I have also been able to get some highly questionable items off the open market. I have a growing reference collection of altered, faked and fraudulent material to help me learn how to actually tell "gloss from dross." It is all now indelibly marked as such on the back.

That's kind of where I'm at with them. In my case it's almost guaranteed to be a bargain because I generally won't bid very high due to the potential possibility of ending up with something with undisclosed faults or repairs. Because of what and how I collect, I'm not very worried about reperfs and regumming, but of course one always has to worry about creases, thins and other faults that might not be glaringly apparent.

It's fairly obvious the seller is ethically challenged, but in their greed they probably don't see the money they're losing out on. Since they sell everything at auction starting at a penny, they end up with zero unsold items. More buyers would just result in higher sold prices rather than more items sold, and that's a lot harder to quantify. Most businessmen are good with numbers and if your business model is fixed price listings, you can figure that if you attract x number of buyers and they spend an average of $x, you'll end up with $x amount in total new gross sales. Even estimating how much higher bids would go by attracting x number of new buyers is mostly guesswork on an operation of their size.

Essayk - Understood and fine by me.

CKStamps (as far as I know) has nothing to do with nystamps. CK is a pretty big ebay seller in his own right and is not (as far as I can tell), ethically-challenged.

nystamps removed references of APS memership in their ebay listings on ebay some time ago. It could have been due to my filing a complaint formal with APS againt Mr Sun/nystamps.......

"And yes, Sun Philatelie/Sun Philatelics/Sun Philate LLC is the same person. On ebay, I believe that NYSTAMPS is the consignment arm of his business while CKSTAMPS is where "store-owned" material is markeed."

NO! CKStamps is not part of Ji Sun's operation. He used to work for him, but no more.

Thank you for clarifying NYSTAMPS vs CKSTAMPS. I was not sure, hence the "I believe..." in my post. I have nowhere near the contacts that our more esteemed member do. I've picked up some very nice items from CKSTAMPS as well, so in no way am I complaining about either of them.

I became a 25 year APS member last year, and am glad to find out that I was not alone in filing a complaint with the APS.

This is from way back on page 2 of this thread, but here is a doozy that just showed up on ebay.

Lol, I'm sure most collectors will get warm fuzzy feelings from buying a stamp from "norman the meat man"