eBay and Other On-Line Dreamers - A Photo Lot Compendium

hutch · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 19:51:54 pm

o2ke is selling this Hungary stamp for a starting price of $3005.00 and BIN $4070.00...US$ that is! Not a bad looking stamp and it has the date, 1872, already printed on it for easy identification! :shock:

(of course, not mentioning that it actually came out in 1972!) surely he'll get one right somewhere along the line!!! Item #120919539858.

I'm unable to get the picture any larger...does he do that on purpose as well?

And someone tell me (in simple English please) how do you get those links here to go and view these lots? :oops:

Thanks, Anne

Spartacus · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 21:19:10 pm

Hi Anne,

I think I will get rich by selling them to this guy at a bargain, he can have as many as he wants for only $1000 each.

Here is a 'rare' pair for only .48c on ebay... :lol:

Another hopeless chancer

Cheers

hutch · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 23:55:52 pm

We can only wish Spartacus!

If I thought that he would buy my spares at that kind of price, I would be more than willing!!!

I do think he's silly....but not quite that silly...he only needs one or two uniformed ebay " bunnies" to make a packet!

Now, on that note, I don't have a "connected" pair of that issue....have you got one for 48 cents?

Anne

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 07:47:53 am

Regarding the Hungary "1872" stamp, this was first mentioned on this thread back on February 10, where o2ke only wanted USD1,305 for it. Obviously it has gone up in value since then, or he is trying to recover the eBay fees he has ploughed into his junk.

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=379&start=2150

In his entire eBay history, he has sold one stamp and that was for 10 cents, sent post free. He really ought to get a day job.

Norm

RockySC · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 08:47:28 am

With my various eBay dealings, I learned a long time ago that when researching items for sale you can not go by unsold, set priced items when determining value. Good lord has this thread proved that more than anything I have ever seen! I am also enjoying this thread, please keep it coming.

On a similar note, on the iPhone app you can set it to view only completed, SOLD, items. I can't figure this out on the website. I can view completed, but it lists everything, sold and unsold. How do you view ONLY sold items on the website?

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 14:43:45 pm

RockySC wrote:

I am also enjoying this thread, please keep it coming.

It has been going for 5 years plus change. I can't see it stopping any time soon. As long as there is eBay, there will be dreamers.

Norm

hutch · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 19:35:04 pm

"From stockrocket, we now have six of the little beggars for USD5,500 or BIN USD7,000

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/France-6-Blu ... 20c5b9327d

I won't repeat it but he uses o2ke's exact flowery description as quoted above above, word for word."

:lol:

you have to laugh don't you!!!

I emailed stockrocket and asked him about his price...was there something in a specialist catalogue that made these provincial coat of arms stamps so much more expensive than my 10 cent copies?

I see he's withdrawn the listing...and he never even emailed me back

Anne

muruk · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 20:23:29 pm

hutch wrote:

surely he'll get one right somewhere along the line!!!

Not necessarily.

It's a bit like the monkey proposition.

I saw a mathematical proof recently that if you sit an infinite number of monkeys at an infinte number of keyboards, NONE of them will ever type out a Shakespear play.

hutch · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 20:56:40 pm

How right you are Muruk!

I don't know who was silly enough (and got paid accordingly!) to think that monkeys could do that!

They have several things against them from the start!

1: the monkeys can't speak English

2: they were never taught to read and write

3: and even if they did manage to type "Hi" it is more likely to be a fluke than a conscious thought

All animals can be taught to recognize words. A dog knows "sit" if it has been trained well enough. Our dog recognized CAR and would literally do back flips wanting to go for a ride...we got to the point of spelling it out...that only worked for a while until she learnt how to spell :shock:

Actually, when you think about it, our dog was probably smarter than o2ke! :shock:

SMSSLT · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 21:33:04 pm

hutch wrote:

All animals can be taught to recognize words. A dog knows "sit" if it has been trained well enough. Our dog recognized CAR and would literally do back flips wanting to go for a ride...we got to the point of spelling it out...that only worked for a while until she learnt how to spell :shock:

Actually, when you think about it, our dog was probably smarter than o2ke! :shock:

Anne, true, but I bet after a ride in your car o2ke! could probably have it listed on eBay BIN $100,000 before you backed it into the garage...

hutch · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 22:28:15 pm

and that is where the difference lies!

The dog doesn't speak, read or write English so therefore can't list a doggy ride on E-bay

but o2ke CAN!!!! must have been some primary school education along the way!! But who knows what grade???

JaceStamps · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 08:40:20 am

Here's the deal of the day, at only $10,000

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WHITEHORSE-YT-NORTHERN-SERVICES-DIVISION-CANCEL-1-05-CANADIAN-STAMP-/200766088372?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ebe9764b4

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 08:45:00 am

JaceStamps wrote:

Here's the deal of the day, at only $10,000

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WHITEHORSE-YT-NORTHERN-SERVICES-DIVISION-CANCEL-1-05-CANADIAN-STAMP-/200766088372?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ebe9764b4

If it's worth $10k, why would he "personally cut this off an envelope"? :roll:

muruk · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 12:18:55 pm

HalfpennyYellow wrote:

If it's worth $10k, why would he "personally cut this off an envelope"? :roll:

Because that's where the value is.

If someone else had cut it off it would only have been worth 5¢.

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 19:33:38 pm

Of course, the same seller has this beauty:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/200766141306

It can be yours for the reasoable price of US$10000, or if you can't wait, why not buy it now for $20000?

:roll:

hutch · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 22:17:46 pm

Would anyone like to donate to the fund?

I haven't got one of them!

maszki · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 05:41:58 am

hutch wrote:

Would anyone like to donate to the fund?

I haven't got one of them!

Hutch, these are a dime a dozen. I have a spare but my price is not $10,000; not even $1,000..or even $100, or $10.

Give me your email address and I will send it to you for the special discount price of.....wait for it......nothing!!!!

Because that is what it is really worth..well almost..perhaps a cent or two. The addition of a recent Oz international stamp to my collection is worth more than this dog is worth.

JaceStamps · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 05:51:54 am

I'm slightly confused as to why this seller has "Lost the Plot". If you read through his seller feedback he has sold stamps in the past at reasonable prices. Although one negative does allude to his mental status.

mikyh · **Joined:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 07:20:27 am **Posts:** 47

Your classis dreamer. You could offer him less than the asking £40,000 but if not you have the satisfaction of knowing you have helped him with the deposit on his house. :lol:

Quote:

old rare stamp collection not had these appraised but by looking on the net briefly I have found a lot of these stamps to be rare and unusual the price is negotiable although i would prefer it not to be as the money made on these will be the deposit for a house any interest on these i will gladly send you pictures if you send me your email address into my eBay account the stamps you see on these two pages are of various country's but they are not all seen as there is probably between 500 to 1000 stamps in the pages of these two books they will be sent recorded delivery or by a personal courier dependant on how you would like them to be sent as they are valuable.

any questions that you may have on these items do not hesitate to contact me

peter

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rare-stamp-co ... 2a1dfeeebc

Michael

JaceStamps · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 06:28:27 am

He only ships to the UK, so I'm now out of the running on grabbing up these "Rare" stamps.....

JaceStamps · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 22:54:53 pm

A new top seller in the making and his rare large head queen victoria.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stamps-/120917810139?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c27435bdb

muruk · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 23:13:20 pm

You have got to check out this idiot's other listings while they are still up.

maszki · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 00:32:45 am

muruk wrote:

You have got to check out this idiot's other listings while they are still up.

He does offer free shipping

Spartacus · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 02:34:12 am

Please guys, let's not fight over the rare collection.

For £40,000 I think we should go 50/50... mikyh... we can share this rare collection.

:lol:

Machaggis52 · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 22:58:45 pm

GlenStephens wrote:

Incredible. :shock:

One wonders at times whether the 'unhinged' refers to the stamps or the sellers?

muruk · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 23:34:30 pm

MUH = Mentally Un-Hinged. :shock:

RockySC · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 03:53:05 am

I'm tempted to bid on the one for $1 with free shipping just so he'll have to pay more to ship it to me than the final bid would be. But with my luck he'd just take the buck and not send anything.

JonEboy · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 04:54:38 am

Sorry I missed this juicy little item when it was live...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251063486832? ... 500wt_1202

Seems like the GB Oak tree from 1973 (Plant a tree in '73...I remember it well...) on a damaged FDC has gone up in value! I must return to my cast off box and see what I can find

jrg · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 19:51:59 pm

This one will take some beating - ten bucks plus $2.50 postage (!) for something I could mass-produce in less than a minute each!

Billed as NSW – KIAMA MANUSCRIPT PROVISIONAL PMK 1972 commercial cover – RARE

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221039797405

I've asked him to clarify the connection to Kiama - should be an interesting reply.

Spartacus · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 20:34:40 pm

jrg

If you used red ink to cancel the stamp, maybe the value will increase similar to issues with maltese cancels.

:lol:

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:46:24 am

from staceynmick , we have this little gem for only AUD 999, or if you want to avoid the snipers BIN AUD 8,700

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Australia-AA ... 3376f590c6

Quote:

Australia AAT RARE scarce to find 1954 block set MINT! LH RARE STAMPS

9 IN THE BLOCK

Some scarce to find AAT stamps from 1954..dont really want to sell but have no choice..for serious interest call 0466562195..thankyou

staceynmick , given that the whole block is worth $1.00 on a good day, I don't think you will have any problem hanging on to them.

Norm

gmoney · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 02:50:53 am

gmoney wrote:

ozyon12 has this beauty currently listed at BIN AU$2,700 or make offer.

Totally shocked that he didn't get any takers at $2,700 but surely now at $2,300 someone will snap this beauty up!

They must be getting desperate for a sale, slashed another $1000 off the asking price...surely someone will take this beauty for $1300! :lol:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Polska-collector-stamp-Black-corrective.......1e6eb8a5b7

indieguy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 03:30:43 am

Saw this today:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Book-full-o ... 2ebeaaa408

Sample from collection.

Great grandfather's (He collected "future" stamps). :lol:

Expected price $2000.00

The Pom · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 06:07:52 am

fromdownunder wrote:

from staceynmick , we have this little gem for only AUD 999, or if you want to avoid the snipers BIN AUD 8,700

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Australia-AA ... 3376f590c6

Quote:

Australia AAT RARE scarce to find 1954 block set MINT! LH RARE STAMPS

9 IN THE BLOCK

Some scarce to find AAT stamps from 1954..dont really want to sell but have no choice..for serious interest call 0466562195..thankyou

staceynmick , given that the whole block is worth $1.00 on a good day, I don't think you will have any problem hanging on to them.

Norm

Response from seller:

Quote:

i know they are not worth anything like what i asked, but ebay is free advertising and thought someone might be interested

..the high price is just to grab their attention thankyou.

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2012 21:39:28 pm

Here is a good dream from seller michelle6872 who wants AUD 60 plus AUD 2 postage for items worth absolutely nothing.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Australia-St ... 3cc7b41570

Quote:

Australia Stamps. In Excellent Condition. Selling these for my father so if you have any questions please let me know and I will relay them to him.

Robert1 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2012 23:41:58 pm

fromdownunder wrote:

Here is a good dream from seller michelle6872 who wants AUD 60 plus AUD 2 postage for items worth absolutely nothing.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Australia-St ... 3cc7b41570

Quote:

Australia Stamps. In Excellent Condition. Selling these for my father so if you have any questions please let me know and I will relay them to him.

Hahaha. I recently listed a couple of hundred in a lot, on StampBoards all for $10 delivered. At this chaps prices, I would be a millionaire !

CollectorColin · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 20:15:05 pm

muruk wrote:

hutch wrote:

surely he'll get one right somewhere along the line!!!

Not necessarily.

It's a bit like the monkey proposition.

I saw a mathematical proof recently that if you sit an infinite number of monkeys at an infinte number of keyboards, NONE of them will ever type out a Shakespear play.

They could probably knock out a few of the Twilight series in about 10 minutes though.

hutch · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 20:42:53 pm

JonEboy · **Posted:** Sun Jun 24, 2012 23:23:36 pm

Not sure about this one, looks like a bit of a bargain...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 500wt_1091

After all, it is mint! :lol:

manfaefife · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 00:05:52 am

What on earth is it ? A cut out from a magazine or something ?

JonEboy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 00:55:51 am

manfaefife wrote:

What on earth is it ? A cut out from a magazine or something ?

It actually looks like a very bad photocopy of a forgery but it has then been printed onto slightly pink paper. Quite bizarre :?:

Probably cost more to produce than he will ever make....

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 00:56:59 am

I guess it's a cut-out from an old stamp album.

Something similar to this one:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=33853

muruk · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 01:00:44 am

To me, it looks like:

It was stuck to an envelope. Someone has tried to close cut it, as charity workers do. The cutting was so close that it followed the perf outlines, but then lost concentration up the right hand side and did a single snip.

OR

They tried to cut around the outline of a picture of a stamp.

The Pom · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 05:33:42 am

I contacted the seller & he has thanked me for drawing this to his attention & has removed the listing.

Credit to him for this.

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 08:01:33 am

Super dreamers are few and far between, but automarkus166 has this rather peculiar affliction. For only USD 80,000 you too can be the proud owner of a handful of kids junk. He also wants USD 25 for postage. That's more than the stamps are worth! Three random scans below.

Quote:

Stamp collection for sale!

Stamps from all over the World, Germany, Asia, Africa etc....

some are stamped and some are print fresh!

All are in a very good condition....

Biddings for single stamps please via mail!

Errors and prior sale reserved!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Rare-Stamp-C ... 3cc7f476f7

Norm

hatter · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 20:07:59 pm

fromdownunder 28 Sept 2011

Quote:

have been watching this one for quite a while (through at least 5 listings) and have decided it belongs on the Dreamers thread, although I have no idea what went on, except that somebody may have spilled a Banana Cocktail on it:

From seller bullion111, and for GBP 25,000 (never reduced from the original auction maybe a year ago)and described as below and attracted absolutely no interet:

relisted 21/12/11 by Bullion111 a snip at £50,000
possibly relisted between times

and now available again at £50,000 Item number: 251087557442
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QEII-SG1658v- ... 3a75fc1342

:roll:

Princestamps · **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 23:55:40 pm

fromdownunder wrote:

I include this (now closed) item from perennial favourite o2ke mainly as another example as to how he can mangle English and concepts like no-one else on the planet. I don't need to add that it is a totally worthless stamp:

Priced at USD 564

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Father-Chris ... 1c271e01aa

Quote:

Christmas.

Excellent long stamp. Ideal stamp hobby gift for someone.

This is a genuine stamp not a reproduced forgeory. Like currency, it is assumed the reproduction of the collection hobby stamp is illegal. I have seen this in stores and featured well in hobby articals.

I also have a reference to this stamp in an informational encyclopedia for collectors. Many of my stamps are featured in a hobby reference encyclopedia.

Stamp collecting is a serious hobby kids love, adults mature. No hate complaints, collector notes are welcome.

Norm

I have just spent the better part of 2 wet days reading this whole thread, I have laughed so hard I have nearly exploded several times, bashed my hands on the desk and drive my better half to distraction with my giggling and laughing. Some of these people, are they for REAL!!!!!!!! O2ke and benhayworth take the cake, but all of these overpriced junk lots, are not only 1c junk stamps, but they are all in really bad condition, ripped and toned etc. I am so glad I don't have an ebay account as if its full of this rubbish. Who in the right mind would sell a album of junk stamps for $999100?.
But this Equatorial Guinea stamp is beyond tacky, the girl and Santa have nothing to do with this Spanish speaking Banana republic, at the time all of its stamps were dodgy fakes and this was another one, it was run by Francisco Macias Nguema Biyongo who was convinced he had so much magic power he tried to start the generators running after a power cut. It didn't work, he murdered all his opponents and buried foreign cash in the sand (After it was dug up after his deposure, it had rotted). The currency was Ekuele (I kid you not, made of up of 100 Bipwekele). In 1979 he was overthrown and the current President Teodoro Macias Obiang (A cronie of Francisco) came to power, he is still there, the country is quite rich due to oil, but thanks to mega corruption 99% of the population is at subsistence level. This stamp is in Guinean Pesetas, but about this time the Ekuele came in and after the mid 80s the CFA Franc became the currency (Known as the Franco el Africa Central y Occidente)
This stamp has nothing to do with Equatorial Guinea, it was printed in Europe and was designed for thematic collectors and packets, its sale to thematic collector only benefitted Macias Nguema with a few more Ekuele.
I love this thread and just keep it coming, because I have never laughed so hard in all my life.

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 08:51:25 am

Here are two sellers - one from Italy and another from India - who have quite a number of Malta covers, all of which are But it Now.

The first seller: ercolegloriauk from Milan, Italy.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=M ... legloriauk

He has quite a number of nice items that are worth their price (GB used in Malta, disinfected, etc.), a number of items are quite overpriced. An example being:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300440433119
BIN at £110

Yes, it is an attractive cover, but considering that I got this for $1.50, the price seems slightly high (and this one is a second day cover, possibly earliest use)...

(an interesting thing is that both of there covers were sent by Rupert Forbes-Bentley - see viewtopic.php?f=13&t=37454#p2793151)

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 09:08:21 am

The second seller: wowhuge from Mumbai, India.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Stamps-/260/i ... alta&rt=nc

On the other hand, this seller has a lot of covers which are worth $1 in good condition, and in their condition (horribly toned and with punch holes), they are worth somewhere between zero and nothing.

An example:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280844380799
BIN at US$90

An interesting thing is that the seller ships worldwide but excludes Canada (although only mentioned in the item description and not in eBay's "Postage and Payments" tab).

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 15:15:35 pm

Once again o2ke has gone where no man has gone before. The price is stupid enough for a stamp that is probably in every Kiddies Kollection on the planet, but the description defies all rational thought.

Quote:

An Original PRAGA pinky thumb.

Pinkys, or thumbs, become popular from world stamp events. At exhibitions, fans would lable stamps and begin distingushing real stamps from fake in the world.

The exact pinky read 1978 PRAGA. This stamp has been in a collection for around 28 years.

Price: USD 125 or BIN USD 140

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PRAGA-1978-m ... 1c28c33031

'An Original PRAGA pinky thumb.

Pinkys, or thumbs, become popular from world stamp events. At exhibitions, fans would lable stamps and begin distingushing real stamps from fake in the world.

The exact pinky read 1978 PRAGA.

Norm


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