What About HipStamps?

I am registered at Hipstamps.

Do I need to Register again for Hipcomic?
It is rejecting my log in.

Thanks.

Just a FYI

They had 2 recent promotions for which I was able to earn back several hundred bucks. Doubt I could find $500 of stuff I want at this point, much less $10K. Would love to hear from anyone who hits $10K. Would be a fabulous accomplishment and fantastic discount.

I looked at hipstamp briefly but there was nothing there for me. Very little NSW material at all.

Just shows us how weak the supply and demand is for stamps these days.

Jack Kelley

Hipstamps interface is so annoying to me.

Hi Jack,

I think the demand for quality hasn't diminished at all. It's probably gone the opposite way. Maybe there's a little too much competition in the ebay/delcampe/hipstamp type of marketplace these days.

In my area of collecting there's always the same overpriced dross on ebay, usually listed by a couple of sellers who appear happy to have 1 or 3 day listings with hardly anything ever selling. ebay's filtering system, at least on the Australian site, is just not effective anymore. Completely broken would be more of an apt description.

Delcampe on the other hand is fertile ground. Patience is key but I've picked up some of the greatest bargains in my collecting lifetime there

Still, Hipstamp is digging its heels in, and refuse to offer "block sellers"
which, seems to be a popular request.

Are members able to suggest why? I cannot see how it would affect vendors, if they did not know they are being blocked by certain purchasers.
If it reduced their activity, that would be a good thing. no?

I disagree with #6

This applies to any shopping venue.

I have made many purchases on HipStamp....so far, all good transactions. There are a number of dealers that get my repeat business because the quality of the stamps, pricing and reasonable shipping cost is consistently good.
My only frustration is that some dealers do not post images of lower priced stamps...so you don't get a visual of the stamp being offered for sale.

I remember time when we never saw images from all those printed ads. We get spoiled.

This is my only problem with Hipstamp. I have made a few buys on the site and have been thrilled with the purchases. But, offerings that interest me are few and far between. And, I find their continual spam offering special discounts on material I don't want to buy annoying.

I just opened a store on hipstamp. I found site easy to navigate and the fees to list in the store were reasonable.

Just bought stamps from Hipstamp for the first time, so we'll see how it goes. It looks better to me than ebay for the often cheap individual stamps I need to fill out a set.

I had a sudden uptick of sales on HipStamp this week. Maybe marketing there is getting more effective. Except for the extra time to manually process orders, selling on HipStamp is a bit less expensive than ebay but automation is lacking. Because ebay listings are uploaded to ebay by the SixBit eCommerce solution, ebay Sync, provided by HipStamp efficiently clones ebay fixed price listings. Now that my ebay stamp auctions have dwindled, my ebay stamp listings all appear on HipStamp. Listings end after 30 days providing an opportunity to adjust pricing with a SQL Server query. The process takes only a few minutes with no need to put with ebay web site hassles. I don't even know what the HipStamp submit process looks like because I never use and don't plan to. It has been more than fifteen years since I last used the ebay web site to submit a new listing.

I prefer HipStamp because I have more shipping flexibility, but now that the price of tracking is so high, mailings below a threshold value are no longer sent with tracking on ebay. The price has effectively doubled in five years if stamps are used. The gap between stamps and computer labels has increased so much that stamps are 34% more expensive, meaning that buying at 74% of face is the breakeven point. Will US postage plummet in value like the UN did?

Clark
HipStamp and ebay ID: clarkphilatelics