50 x 1st Class Stamps for Postage STOP BUYING COUNTERFEITS - Face Value £82.50

Item Specifics

Country

United States

Catalog Number

50

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

Unused

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

Condition: Genuine Stamps - face value £82.50 - now only 100% Commemorative stamps & all valid for postage - ... Read more about the seller notes Genuine Stamps - face value £82.50 - now only 100% Commemorative stamps & all valid for postage - see description Read Less about the seller notes

Decimal GB Commemorative StampsBrighten up your letters and packages with 50 x Commemorative 1st Class Stamps - Discounted and Perfect for Postage. All are valid & 100% genuine. Beware the market is flooded with Chinese counterfeits normally offered by sellers who actually sell kitchen and bathroom products or collectibles, when suddenly they stumbled upon £100,000 of stamps! Unfortunately buying them and using them in the postal service is a crime. It is possible the only problem you will experience is that Royal Mail charge your customer £5 to receive your packet (still embarrassing) but the consequences could be much worse, as Royal Mail really want to 'stamp' this out. To explain the market, stamp dealers often buy in bulk at auction or from estates. They take out what they need for stock and other items of interest but are sometimes left with hundreds of first and second class stamps in booklets and the like. There aren't enough collectors to 'soak them all up', so for cash flow or to realise a profit on a box lot, it is necessary to offer valid stamps, under face value to help liquidity and in truth get and an overall profit - no one is going to buy stamps online for postage at full price (although that is going on sometimes on Amazon!). Having been in the business for 50 years, I can tell you that an auction, if you're willing to buy large lots of modern GB you will be paying anything between 50% and 60% of the face value for them and sometimes more and that's before adding a buyer's premium of between 18-25%. You cannot buy the material at 35% of face unless occasionally, when the auction house hasn't done their job and no one else has bothered to view the lot. So when Hip sellers of shampoo and little craft animals, start aggressively selling postage on Hip, they are selling counterfeit stamps imported from China. And I'd be lying if I told you that the latest batch of fakes that have come in aren't pretty amazing but do you want to be sucked into criminal activity? If so, fill your boots! It is not viable to sell stamps for postage on Hip at 35% or less. Even if, which they never do, get to pick up a small parcel of decimal stamp at 25% of face...here's the mathematics. If a £1 stamp costs 25p (which it doesn't and, if it did, I would buy up a million of them for £250,000) and you put 100 of them on Hip at £35...all these crooks are paying the highest promotion rates to be at the top of listings...so 13% plus normal fees, 12% + listing fees 12p and a transaction fee of 30p and they all offer free p&p, which I guess costs them nothing because they have the counterfeit stamps to use. Anyway 100 x £1 stamps has a face value of £100 - offered for £35. £35 less 13% (£4.55) less another 12% (£4.20) leaves £26.25 less 42p for listing and transaction leaves £25.83. Not much of a margin on tens of thousands of stamps. So they have to be coming in at 10p (absolutely impossible for anyone in the trade to buy at), unless, of course, they're robbing post offices in their spare time.Royal Mail have been horribly slow in getting to grips with this and have now set up a fraud department, as it is costing them millions. When something looks to be good to be true.....it is! And it's not just the barcoded stamps, its commemoratives too - mainly 2022 self-adhesives, e.g. Wallace & Gromit, Cats, Fruit and Veg (2003) and Cats and Dogs (2002) booklets etc.I would like to sell stamps for postage on Hip but unfortunately at this time it is impossible because the first three pages of listings in that category are 90% counterfeit and being offered at between 35-45% of face. Hip don't care although they have made a few of the sellers remove the words 'good for postage', as they're clearly not and that is another separate offence under trading standards. If stamps are being offered for postage, you also need to avoid 'unfranked' material. These have already gone through the post once and cannot be re-used (again quite hard for Royal Mail to spot and it's their poor working standards that mean masses of letters arrive without a post mark or, if they can be bothered, have been struck through with a felt tip. An elderly couple selling unfranked stamps on Hip were sent to prison last year but not before they'd soaked off £600,000 worth of stamps, which they sold for just under £350,000.So even if it's not me, it's always best to buy your discounted stamps for postage on Hip from a stamp dealer. You can sometimes pick them up at a great rate on Hip auctions. At fixed price, however, it is unlikely anyone in the trade can offer them for much less than 75% of face, that nets down to 59% after Hip's fees and that's what they would have cost at auction in the current market, although advertised buying prices from the big postage dealers are often nearer to 40%, rising to 65% for second class barcoded and they mainly supply other businesses direct rather than sell on Hip.Thank you to anyone who has got down to the bottom of this description - you deserve a medal but these crooks are killing an already shrinking market.Oh, by the way, all the stamps in my offer either have full gum or are self-adhesive and they are all in perfect condition. The photo is representative but you will get 50 genuine first class commemorative stamps at under face value, which is currently £82.50. Free Postage by 1st class 'signed for' to anywhere within the U.K.(p&p £8.15 Europe and £8.25 Worldwide - tracked and signed)

Seller Information

Seller

Epicurean11 (1110)

Registered Since

02/29/2020

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Epicurean11

Item Location

East Sussex, United Kingdom

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Worldwide

Returns Accepted

Yes