What Do You Think About This

Hi all

Not sure if my posting is in the right place or not.

What do you think about this: If a seller sells me a stamp (could be anything, just using a stamp as an example, besides it fits in here nicely) I announce to stamp collectors the new discovered plate variety I've discovered and note that the seller was unaware of this new variety.

Is it ethical for the seller to post that the plate variety was discovered by the seller, even tho in his add for this stamp in question, no mentioned of the plate variety was mentioned.


In my opinion this is not ethical:

Background for my opinion. I made a discovery some time ago, and announced it to stamp collectors. The seller took credit for the discovery, and claimed I had not made the discovery. Now the credit for the discovery is listed as somebody else and not me!

This happened some time ago. I've since that time with stamps I have a vested interest in protected my interest.

So do you think is this ethical or not ethical?

Stampmaster

It's cheesy, if nothing else.

Is it ever noble to chase notoriety on any level?
Don

Hi, I understand if you never have made multiple discoveries and never had one stolen from you, you would not understand!

Stampmaster

..... Theodore Roosevelt......

Stampmaster ... if it's anything like Patents, it's now first to get their invention to the patent office. It used to be a game of documentation, showing dates and signatures to verify the claim. At my company, I've been burned a few times on my inventions that others took the care to explain in more detail, or to show how it could be used in different areas, and then took first name on the patent. A little annoying, but I still have my name on four and counting.

So, I guess if you were the first to detail it to the community, you should have gotten the credit. If the other person used the old, "well I saw it first, just forgot to tell everyone", or they were able to go into more detail, then that shouldn't work. It must have been more complicated that my simplification, but it seems as if you should have gotten credit.

Keep looking, something else will come up.

I agree with stampmaster. Not ethical. Outright dishonest, in fact.

Same here - I agree with stampmaster totally

Peter

History is rife with incidents of stolen credit for inventions and discoveries. Stealing credit for someone else's work is, of course, unethical.

The question is how significant is the discovery, and how much does it matter to you. I would argue that most things aren't worth the fight, but some may well be. Your call.

Forget whether it was ethical. The sellers claim that he "discovered" the variety wasn't true.

In my mind, making claims that aren't true can never be ethical.

I think it was very unethical.

Would it possible to see your discovery? The viewers on this board would then know who discovered the item.

Hi littleriverphil, I got rid of the stamp!

Stampmaster