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PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 07:57:26 am 
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The seller artsoldier does appear to start everything at 99 cents, and sells quite a bit of nice stuff, and probably does have a mailing list, but a 5 day Auction starting at 99 cents over the Easter/School Holiday period? Rather brave I would have thought?

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 08:03:39 am 
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He must know what he's doing - I suspect he'll do rather well.

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I predict it will sell for a good price. People have time over the holidays to sit down and look at ebay. Not all of us go away on holiday.

I have bought some very nice Tasmanian stamps from this seller in the past.


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Its worked well for him so far, its received publicitiy here that it never would have, if it had been listed at a higher price....
Ah well bid 99c just to have the first bid.

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I wonder if he knows that the stamp has the variety 'Broken value circle on right', that makes it a $A650 stamp.....

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:30:48 am 
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"superb VFU"

Only on ebay, when it is noticeably off centre, and has badly toned perfs along the base etc, and gum residue. :twisted: :roll:

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It's already up to $107.51 (8 bids), and four days to go.

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No-one has shown a picture of the rear.

If that stamps was salvageable you wwould think it would have been given a hot water wash.

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I've been outbid :lol:

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I'm sure he'll get a decent price for it. Especially since the centering is mediocre, and it badly needs a dip in some Ernie.

Maybe not as much as if he'd mentioned the variety, but things like £2 roos get found and will not be allowed to go too cheaply.


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Is it me or does the top of the stamp look really strange, like a strip of paper including the top perfs had been added just above the frame?

At first I thought it might be the line from the plastic holder, but it isn't, since you can see that line above the stamp.

Both front and back show the same anomaly.


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Joel, it's just lines from the plastic of the stock page the stamp is in.

The bottom line is from the clear outer strip of the row the stamp is on. It's not as tall as the stamp, so cuts through the stamp scan. The upper line is the bottom of the previous row on the stock sheet, above the stamp.

I pulled out a stock page and looked at it before answering this...


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 09:36:16 am 
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Erich, you are right, thank you. I was confused by the two lines, when I expected to see only one.


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I think that's just the stock-card the stamp's housed in. Returning to the first post, it's sensible to start lots like this at the minimum price. You save a few pence on seller fees, attract early bids (which apparently gets your lot 'noticed' on some search engines), and will probably get a higher end-realisation than if you had started the listing at, say, $100.

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Returning to the first post, it's sensible to start lots like this at the minimum price. You save a few pence on seller fees, attract early bids (which apparently gets your lot 'noticed' on some search engines), and will probably get a higher end-realisation than if you had started the listing at, say, $100.

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Yes, I understand the strategy. Many sellers do it. It was the timing of the listing that I was questioning.

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Yes, I understand the strategy. Many sellers do it. It was the timing of the listing that I was questioning.

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While I prefer not to have items listed over holiday weekends, it shouldn't matter much since it's not starting or (more important) ending during the holiday.


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Item update. 9 bidders and 13 bids to $211.15 with under 8 hours to go.

Our seller apparently has seen joelk's comment about the top of the stamp;

On 07-Apr-12 at 16:22:02 AEST, seller added the following information:

"The horizontal line near the top of the stamp just below the perfs visible on the front scan is the plastic of the hagner sheet. - it is not a cut or line on the stamp- many thanks - artsoldier"

Well done on a canny selling strategy.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 17:18:09 pm 
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I also think that there will be one or two snipes already in place to jump.

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I think that's just the stock-card the stamp's housed in. Returning to the first post, it's sensible to start lots like this at the minimum price. You save a few pence on seller fees, attract early bids (which apparently gets your lot 'noticed' on some search engines), and will probably get a higher end-realisation than if you had started the listing at, say, $100.


Seller is a LOT braver than I am - could easily have gone the other way. I have had both wins & losses on Ebay, some you can do nothing but shake your head and go 'What the * happened here ??'

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You could list a $100 bill on ebay at 1c or 99c and it will get around $100 - no mystery there.

Such things always get around the market price - the sellers of course forget ebay extracts their 10% or so cut at the end.

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AU $283.88 -- Pretty good, considering the condition.


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.... - the sellers of course forget ebay extracts their 10% or so cut at the end.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:50:01 pm 
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AU $283.88 -- Pretty good, considering the condition.


Not really - he will get about $A250 nett.

Any real dealer will have paid him that cash.

As I said it is a fairly decent looking copy. Not "VFU" as these spivs always claim, but good used enough to get $250.


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