It's 2005 all over again!
I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. Working with Mark in exploring and commenting on the new site makes it feel like 2005 all over again! You're having a great attitude through this tumultuous time, Mark. I'm curious if you have a supporting cast working with you. If so, can't wait to meet them. Cheers, and Godspeed to HipStamp, where it's Hip to be Square, or Triangular, or Heart-Shaped, or whatever you collect!
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I just signed up, after receiving an email from Mark . . and , Doug, I used the very same word 'tumultuous' in my reply to him that you did, in commenting on his journey the past several years!!
It's nice to be back among friends!!
I don't think I was in at the very start of StampWants, but not too long after. I've stayed a lot longer and don't want it to go away. I joined StampWants originally because I wanted an out from Ebay.I too am looking forward to finding old (figuratively) friends.
I have several things I want to say, I'll try to be brief, and if anybody wants to further the conversations, so be it.
1. Hi everybodY!
2.. Stanley/Gibbons is becoming increasingly uninviting, blah blah blah, I'll save you my personal rant......
3. I am extremely glad to see in the terms and conditions, there's no "L@@K!", types of stamp descriptions. It gets on my nerves. I would like to see sellers with obvious misleading listings, like every single listing being "VF", be asked to be a little more truthful. Could this be done somehow without outright policing? What's the use putting time into actually grading your stamps if you can just put "VF" at the end of every listing? Personally, I often don't look at a listing in any more detail if it's a seller with all "VF" material, with a few exceptions. To be fair, there are some.
4. I am personally opposed to the final value fee, but it's not a deal-breaker. The day of the nickel box is in the past.
This whole thing got me to thinking about my existing charge of $1 for most things. It costs me 35-cents (minimum) for Paypal, 49-cents for the postage, and 9-cents seller fee. That's 83-cents, leaving 17 cents "profit", blah blah...
Can we ask for minimum amount orders?
5. I also want to comment on the whole concept of buyer and seller feedback. I don't think it is right for someone selling 20 items from a nickel-box (so to speak) and someone selling 20 $20.00 items getting the same 20 feedbacks, good or (worse) bad. I have over 10,000 feedbacks but I wouldn't boast about it. If someone were to actually start looking at them and seeing 20 from the same person, for the same day, over and over, my boast is pretty hollow! Some of you may remember me saying "who actually reads all of these feedbacks". I have no idea how you could reflect this. Maybe"regular" and "unleaded" feedback or something......
Again, Hi Again, Everybody!!!.
Hi Mark, Doug, Jeri, Arno, Dianne, Greg, and all the others who were breaking new ground over on StampWants a decade ago!!
[ding, ding] "Round 2..."
Kurt
Right after SG took over I closed my store, maybe I will see if I can open another on this site. Nothing like getting in on the ground floor.
Déjà vu, (deɪʒɑː ˈvu) from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past. Déjà vu is a feeling of familiarity, and déjà vécu (the feeling of having "already lived through" something) is a feeling of recollection. (Wikipedia)
Hi again!
Hello to all my friends, good to see you again.
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My first StampWants sale was in December 2006! There have been a few bumps along the way, but it's been a good ride. And It's good to see old (not literally, of course!) faces here. Exciting times!!!
Paul
New or Old to Philatelic Collecting, it is the Community that makes this site Rock On!
HipStamp awakens, but maybe out there in the future some day there'll be a HipPostcard too.
We'll be waiting. Meantime, enjoy the stamp world!