Wrong ID. What do you do when no action is taken by seller?
I have routinely brought listing errors to the attention of sellers. These are often in very difficult areas, like early stamps of Turkey, Hejaz and Nejd etc. where understandably errors are more likely than elsewhere. Often the impact of the error is huge, a $100 stamp misidentified could be a $0.25 stamp, or vice versa.
Errors could also come from not checking on perforations, or wishful thinking. A clear and repeated example is the confusion between Saudi Arabia (Hejaz) #L1 and #10
L1 is perforated 12, and it list for around 30 times the catalog value of L10. Are you surprised than 99% of the L1 listed are actually L10?
Most sellers are prompt to acknowledge, relist their stamps or take other corrective measures. and I am grateful to them.
I understand that some areas are fairly difficult and do require a specialist.
My question is: What do you do when the (few) seller reads your message and does nothing. No acknowledgement, no correction and their erroneous listing is still unchanged weeks later!
I am concerned, particularly when the error results in a huge pricing difference in their favor. Similarly when you suspect (although one is never 100% sure just with a scan) that a stamp is actually a known counterfeit possibility, and you flag it as worth a second look, what should the response be?
Do you report it? Ignore it? shoot another message?
rrr...
Errors could also come from not checking on perforations, or wishful thinking. A clear and repeated example is the confusion between Saudi Arabia (Hejaz) #L1 and #10
L1 is perforated 12, and it list for around 30 times the catalog value of L10. Are you surprised than 99% of the L1 listed are actually L10?
Most sellers are prompt to acknowledge, relist their stamps or take other corrective measures. and I am grateful to them.
I understand that some areas are fairly difficult and do require a specialist.
My question is: What do you do when the (few) seller reads your message and does nothing. No acknowledgement, no correction and their erroneous listing is still unchanged weeks later!
I am concerned, particularly when the error results in a huge pricing difference in their favor. Similarly when you suspect (although one is never 100% sure just with a scan) that a stamp is actually a known counterfeit possibility, and you flag it as worth a second look, what should the response be?
Do you report it? Ignore it? shoot another message?
rrr...
Comments
The best thing you can probably do is to ignore it , don't buy it and move along. It makes for alot less tension , unless that is what your looking for????
I'm grateful that someone took the time. I'd rather sell it for what it really is than what I want it to be.
Rob
rrr...
respond to the help. Although I admit I am not an expert in much of anything, I do not appreciate being told that I am less of an "expert" than the helper and that I should fawn over him/her. I freely admit that I do stupid things (in fact I celebrate being human every day), but I don't need self-ordained experts telling me so.
I repeat, it is all in the way you present your findings.
But nothing like the 102 card collection I'm working on. The latest goof-up (albeit these go into my 'plus column') is in a bunch of his descriptions of early GB stamps where his or her descriptions state 'clipped perfs on one side' and his prices reflect such "damage." All I can do is smile as I put one after another of these into my albums...each having a straight edge as a Wing Margin copy. Its becoming more and more clear that the previous owner wasn't engaged in tomfoolery but rather just simply didn't have a clue.