Ebay $135,000 'Buy It Now' !!!

In my albums, every stamp of that era with such a strong grill on the back has the grill visible on the front, as well.
Anyone else having the same, please?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/85OFF-US-S...263491114631

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If this stamp is what they say it is, why aren't they selling it via an established auction house? Here you have a company based in Vegas, which nobody has ever heard of, with a feedback of 114 offering a world class rarity that- to be blunt- looks too good to be genuine.

... and most feedback comes from unidentifiable buyers ...

Check this one out...someone (a shill?!) bought a used R11 (!!! thanks for the scissor work!!) - but with Original Gum!! - for $455!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/70-OFF-US-...047675.l2557

Re exposed the pic....

The left pic is the ebay lot. The right pic is from Siegel's 2015 Rarities of the World sale 1106 on 2015-06-25, lot 3116, which sold for $260,000

So the buyer want's to sell it again

... with a loss of $130,000 if it would be the original stamp

Good grief! If you look at his other listings, without exception every single imperf and part perf is a fake.

Whoever bought this particular stamp is a complete and utter fool. No one with even the first clue about 1st issue revenues would think this is a legitimate stamp. If you don't know enough about what you are buying, you shouldn't be. It's that simple.

Look on the bright side, at least P&P is free.

I was wondering if he has any stamps in his possession - given the inverted 30c 1869 image comparison above. Then I saw the above comment about the fake 1st issue revenues -- if the seller didn't have material, and was just auctioning 'images' so to speak, then why bother with bad 1st issue revenue fakes? i.e. get some good images...its not hard.

Interesting conundrum with this one

Maybe he's trying to look (il)legitimate? Who knows.

My first thought on seeing the comparison above of the inverted 30c 1869 ebay offering and the Siegel catalog image was that the ebay catalog cutout cut-up must have moved from France to Las Vegas!