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Posted 08/26/2014   3:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add OldFaithful to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I got an email from bidStart recommending the following item which is listed for $10.13. Being a new returnee to stamp collecting after many years, I don't trust my initial reactions, given how much has changed in the philatelic world. Serious question - am I missing something with respect to this item; why in the world would someone pay 10 bucks for this? Or is the seller just throwing it out there to see if he/she can just pick up an extra 10 bucks for lunch money?



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Posted 08/26/2014   4:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow. That has a face that only its mother could love. The seller must believe it to be a rare shade. Is there any guidance in the description?
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Posted 08/26/2014   4:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The stamp is not in collectible condition.
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Posted 08/26/2014   4:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I found the listing, below:

http://stampwants-stamps.bidstart.c...37467/a.html

No disrespect to the seller, who does include "FAULT" in all caps in the title, but I'm not feeling any love for this example.

edit: I see smauggie won't be bidding, either.
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Edited by Cjd - 08/26/2014 4:55 pm
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Posted 08/26/2014   5:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mudhut1000 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You know, I'd purchase it for 13c, if the seller would pay the postage.

I'd cut out the center, mount it a different color postage due stamp & make an art piece out of it! LOL!
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Posted 08/26/2014   5:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add OldFaithful to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I wonder what algorithm bidStart uses to assemble the items that they include as recommendations in their emails to me. Are they completely random or do they have a way of detecting that I am a beginning stamp collector, even though I have been registered on their site for a while, and therefore this is the type of stuff they think I would be interested in? The luck of the draw I assume - it was just Mr. Ugly's turn to be featured.
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Posted 08/26/2014   6:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Mike33 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I bought both "cap over 2s" from bidsmart and for the following 6 months, I'd get almost daily recommendations for the same "cap over 2s" I had already bought. Their algorithm is obviously flawed
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Posted 08/27/2014   4:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think it's reperfed on the right side.
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Posted 08/27/2014   11:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Click on some of his other offerings at the above link and you'll see many stamps with major "faults" including rips, tears, holes, pieces, etc., that render most of them non-collectible and worth little more than what one would pay for a "filler" until a better example could be acquired.
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Posted 08/28/2014   2:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pjsstamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome back to stamp collecting! You are not missing a thing. This stamp is garbage and I would toss it in the trash and I don't throw out much at all. Just ask my wife!
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Posted 08/28/2014   3:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kim Possible to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
1 pulled perf, 2 very pulled perfs, 1 extremely pulled, punched and kicked perf, and 2 extreme creases.

Even if I had Hagners full of these and this was the only color variety left to find, I wouldn't put it in there! Not even as a space filler.
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Posted 08/28/2014   4:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jtfat to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This is growing trend on E Bay, listing very common stamps, damaged stamps and asking big dollars and or high shiping. I assume they there is many unknowing out there.
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