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 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!!!.
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!
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Hi again!
Hello to all my friends, good to see you again.
Paul
Paul
Tedski
O.K. You don't want to b other with a .07 stamp. On Ebay look up a 801 it's average sell price is .40. Well above it's value. if it isn't listed how is the collector in Alaska going to get it.
So The collector can't get itand stops collecting.
Now no one can ever sell a set of Zeps to him.
Was your first purchase of a stamp over .10
If people don't have a way to fill in the cheaper items, they will not collect. They will not tell their kids to collect, and this hoby YES I SAID HOBY is done in one generation.
paul
But thanks for that, I was debating on whether to continue listing lower-cost items, and I appreciate you helping me remember that's what makes the world go round.
I wonder how much you have sold over the last 5 years on Bid Start. Personally I think maybe you don't have to make a liveing selling stamps. I personally Have shipped 92,000 Items For a total of $78,000 in the last 5 years on Stamp Wants depresing as it is ( 15,600 per year and 7,000 expenses ) WoW I Make 8,000.00 a year. I also have over 110,000 feed back. That is less than $1.00 per item. I did the search and can not even find you. Bid Start says you don't exist. Have a friend try to search and find you. Unless they know specific information you can't be found. It's not the feedback volume it's your branding issues.
Paul
No one makes a living on these sites.
This is all advertisement for our other things, and a plus income for doing it.
If you take time and effort yes it is a good buck. But 2-3 hours a day.
If all this can build to 8 hour a day. We won't be posting in the forums, we will be counting our money.
Michael David Hiltner
I incorporated about 2 years ago and my year on year growth is pretty steady. Totally surprising to me. Since my wife died of cancer 1.5 years ago, and last September I moved to Pahrump, from las Vegas. And all this with the whole Stan Gibs thing, I think with this site I will shock the Accountant next year, Now that the business has all of my attention. As well as my computer Genius Girl Friend ( Straight A's And B's in medical admin. ). So a potential bright future moving forward. So that 5 year average is also a growth figure into it. Probably 3,000 the first year.
I do know, sales dropped at the first of the year and it is frustrating when you are trying to build.
Paul
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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