Ebay, Steiner Pages And Scotch Tape

So I recently won an auction for a Brazil country album on Steiner pages (I am sure Don can find the listing). Yesterday, when I received the album I found, to my dismay, that most of the stamps (including all the classics) were mounted using Scotch tape. Needless to say the album was returned in the mail today.

I have two questions, and I know there are truly no answers.
What did the dealer think I was going to do, just accept the essentially worthless stamps?
And two, if a collector knows about Steiner pages how could they possibly not know that Scotch tape is the death of stamps Mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble

If the seller is a dealer/wannabe dealer, then this person has no sense of right and wrong. If the seller is the person who mounted the stamps, then he/she may not understand that doing this was not a good idea.

Would need to know the seller, feedback and other types of items sold to make a better guess. Were they taped on the top edge of stamp to the album or worser?

The seller is well known on ebay and I have dealt with him a number of times in the past. He immediately sent me a return postage label when I notified him of my issue. The scotch tape was cut into little rectangles, folded and used like hinges to affix the stamps.

Amazing. Innovative. In need of guidance.

The tape may peel off easier and cleaner than a modern hinge.

Now that is the innovative thinking the hobby needs and likely disliked modern hinges too. (ha)

"The scotch tape was cut into little rectangles, folded and used like hinges to affix the stamps."

I'm not sure how you would do this with Scotch tape or how it's different from just making a "hinge" from a small piece of tape? Is there a difference? I ask because I wonder if there's any chance these were double-sided "tape"-like adhesive squares? If so, maybe they're removable as some of them are, the ones for mounting photos in albums (or I think they are)? Just a question, but if so that might explain why the collector or collector-seller, it you bought from the person who actually put the stamps in the album, thinks this is an appropriate way to mount stamps. If it is actual Scotch tape, yes it's pretty hard to believe someone -- anyone -- still thinks that's appropriate, even more difficult to believe that a seller would think selling such an album is acceptable. How did he think the buyer would remove the stamps without damaging them? Very strange.

You've now returned the album, but it would have been interesting to see a photo of how these stamps were mounted. All I can think is that Steiner pages are a discount way to make albums nowadays, so maybe this penurious collector tried to be as cheap as possible in "sticking" the stamps on those pages. How cheap is good? Not that cheap.

Discount should not be conveyed as inferior and seen many stamps on expensive pages that were improperly mounted. As discussed in the hinge thread, many just do not know the proper way to mount stamps with hinges or even mounts.