Alvin Swonger
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Just to put closure on this particular case, the listing in question for US# 544 is no longer up on the site. There are 3-4 other listings for #544 by reputable sellers and all of them appear to me to be accurate representations, most with certific…
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Also, the Scott catalogues highlight particular stamps, including #544, that are especially likely to be forged or fraudulently listed, typically because they differ in only a small and obscure way from a much more common stamp or can be imitated by…
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I have reported it as well as other fraudulent listings in the past. I've reported listings to dealers as well as the administration. If the item is up for auction, the auction continues to completion. In the instance described in this post, the …
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I purchased a stamp on 3/3/22, which I have not received. There was no indication that it was shipped (but that happens for about 30% of all my transactions on Hipstamp). I sent the seller two inquiries via the Hipstamp message system but received…
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For those who followed the case of the seller who claims to have not been notified of the transaction by Hipstamp, after a variety of problems, the item arrived safely today. Hallelujah!
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The existence of fools in no way justifies grifters. Not even greedy fools. Murderous fools, as in the old classic "The Sting" -- yes, they deserve to be grifted, but you'll need to make sure the grift sticks. Furthermore, none of us are so cleve…
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Doug, I totally agree with you on the issue of deceptive scans. It is a problem for me because I am very much interested in different shades for certain stamps. I'm of the opinion that Scott, in its numbering system, gives too little importance to…
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Bill, I am not as familiar with the various sellers at Hipstamp as you apparently are. I do, of course, know who the seller was but don't have any special knowledge of him or his store. I'm not inviting further comment, just letting you know that …
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Update: the item sold for $960.
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If the stamp were indeed the rare bluish paper stamp, surely the seller would have highlighted that point in the stamp’s description. It was probably an honest error in attaching the Scott number. What’s more troubling is not correcting the listin…
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Yes. I have a tracking number for it but no stamp yet. The tracking info gives the "guaranteed delivery date and time" as no later than 6:00 PM tonight, which is four minutes from now, but the last tracking location listed is New Orleans and I'm i…
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Thanks, Larry. According to the Hipstamp Admin, the seller in question deactivated his account on 2/26, which was 17 days after the item was purchased by me, so it is unlikely that he would not have received notification before closing his store. …
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I received the following information from support@hipecommerce.com: "Based on our records, . . . [the seller in question] has disabled his store." Not sure how that explains much of anything. If he disabled his store before the transaction, how co…
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I feel like an EMT working in an emergency room but this particular ER is for moribund transactions and my job is to resuscitate them and bring them back to life. I ordered an item via Hipstamp roughly three weeks ago costing $425. When it did not…
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Thanks, Greg! I did.
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I have a question and am wondering if any of you have familiarity with the situation. I have two transactions that are outstanding in which an item has not been delivered, shipping has not been indicated, no refund has been initiated, and the selle…
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The person who gets it right in the first place deserves a better grade than the one who gets it wrong but then redoes the work to correct it. That’s common sense. Otherwise, you’re encouraging sloppy initial effort because the person knows that h…
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Jacques: the ultimate purpose of buyers leaving feedback to sellers is to guide others buyers, not simply to pat the seller on the back. A buyer who leaves positive feedback for a transaction in which they did not, in the end, receive the item for …
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Hipstamp is a conglomerate of sellers, not a club for buyers. Most of the people who participate on the message board are primarily sellers. There is no forum by which I could effectively communicate with numerous stamp buyers, but I would have no…
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Ron, it is, in my opinion, only rarely possible for a botched transaction to be "made right" because of the nature of stamp merchandise. Every stamp is a unique thing, except sometimes in dealing with common stamps. If the stamp received has a fla…
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It seems to me that the situation I described is closest to be a null experience. The problem was indeed handled responsibly and professionally, so a negative feedback would be inappropriate, but I still didn't end up with the sought after item, I …
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Here is one of the problem with automatic feedback. I received an order that included two items from the same dealer made in two separate purchases. One item was fine; one was damaged. I left positive feedback immediately for the item that was fi…
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O.K., so HipStamp cannot initiate refunds. I get it. But they do operate the message system and could pressure sellers into at least responding to messages. They also run the purchases platform where there are two buttons: one for payment and one…
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John, thanks for the correction. As I said, the outcome was satisfactory and all the more so with the clarification you've made. You responded to the problem, responded promptly, and it was resolved. Thanks. I'm principally concerned with the tw…
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At the moment, this is my favorite stamp:
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So, you stated in your original response that you assumed I had a big enough sample of experience from HipStamp and from Ebay to provide some accuracy to my observations. From time to time, I pick out a particular part of my collection to work on a…
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Sometimes problems arise through no fault of either the seller or the buyer. For example, I purchased a 6c Garfield stamp that catalogues for a bit over $80 mint from a seller in Michigan. Luckily, he sent it to me (I'm on the east coast) with tra…
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On the rare occasions when I have to return an item on Ebay, Ebay provides a code that I take to the P.O. where they print out the label for the package and Ebay pays the return postage. By contrast, when I returned a HipStamp item that had been li…
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No, I wasn't aware of that. Is so, it's offensive. It's fine for HipStamp to promote bidding using any information that is public, such as whether a given bidder is currently winning, how much time is left, etc., but the watch list, inferentially,…
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One more complaint about HipStamp policies: I have been using the "Watching" feature to keep track of items on which I intend to bid. I do so because I "snipe," placing my bids in the final seconds so as to not energize opposing bidders and to prot…