My messages yesterday were rather blunt and to the point so I should explain that this is my number one pet hate in philately and oft times brings out the anger in me.
I mentioned that I have complained to sellers recently and the result of that was that one of the sellers withdrew his item while the others, it appears, did not.
ebay are not bothered of course.
For many years I have been 'advising' sellers or dealers the error of their ways and with some success. But the opposite is also true.
I once complained to seller who listed these at £100 [$155] and I was appalled. What followed was a huge argument, exchanges of angry emails [mostly from him] and ended up with a complaint against me to
ebay !!
On the other side, I wrote to a top GB dealer who had these listed and incorrectly described and he withdrew the items immediately and sent me an apology. I explained to them that they should have known better [they obviously knew what the item was as they are selling Exhibition material] and that it could damage business.
If everyone started cutting parts of stamps out with scissors our world would be in a right old mess, no matter if they are from Cinderellas or postage stamps. There is enough on the market already and I implore everyone who sees this kind of practice to complain about it in the strongest possible terms [complain nicely at first in case the seller did not know !]. We should all be doing this to keep our hobby clean as it is a disgraceful practice.
I am proud that I do.
Londonbus1
Posted 03/13/2015 12:42 pm
