Hello Gandhi Collectors,
When you are collecting stamps you need to be very careful other wise your stamp collection will be nightmare.!!!
I am sharing my own experience (of course of nightmare) so you don't get one in your stamp collection.
You can apply this in any thematic stamp collection when you buy it on eBay or any other auction site online or offline in auction house for your stamp collecting need.
Stamp collection is declining and stamp value is not even maintaining catalog stamp value. But it's dealers and seller try to increase price so they can get more value when they sell it.!!!
This is one of the famous auction where dealers used their dirty tricks to outbid new collectors and than trying to sell their.!!
As you can see from following screenshot that winner of this auction is "Khel10ka".
He opened new delcampe id just to increase the bid on this item and eventually outbid me and won the auction. But think what he did not paid for this.!!!
Following is the feedback from seller about buyer "Khel10ka"
French to English translation of his feedback
"no one, attention this person is without interest, refuses the questions, to avoid----------"
Now let's see how dealers/resellers play tricks with you.
Now if you see following screenshot you will get some idea what happen.
Khel10ka started bidding from 153.40 to 190.20 Euros and he won and I lost.!! But "Khel10ka" did not paid.!!! and in this way he increased the price of this FDC and makes it difficult for new Gandhi collectors.
Now if you see "Anusur" started bidding from 125.20 Euros till 153.00. To me it looks like "Anusur" and "Khel10ka" are same bidders. Also "kad_ss" was trying to sell me Cameroun FDC for 190 Euros.!!
So now you need you think what happen in this.?
Now if you see above screen shot you will see all dealers/resellers trying to bidding on this FDC because some of them are or might be also selling this Cameroun FDC.!!
Here there are actually 3-4 bidders but they are using multiple id in order to increase price.!!! This is common practice in Gandhi Philately by certain dealers and resellers.!!
Now you need to decide how to buy , from whom to buy etc when you start collecting Gandhi Philatelic material other wise you will be paying very high price like me.!! So BEWARE !!
Eventually seller sold me this FDC for 120 Euros.!!! Yes I bought it at very high price because of this kind of greedy dealers.!!
I hope this kind of blog post about my experience will help you to understand how to protect yourself in Gandhi Philately.
As I mentioned in my previous blog posts about this FDC is not rare and price is dropping and lot of shill bidding to sell this FDC. So avoid it by thinking as a piece of paper.
I can keep my mouth shut about this and I can join with them to increase my value, but I choose other option to publish this and make everyone aware of this so no other Gandhi collectors is cheated.!!!
We had seen this in Gandhi stamp collection, were everyone think they are smarter than other.!!!
Click one of the following link and you will become smarter.!!
Now does it make sense to collect stamps after looking above blog posts?
Thanks
Gandhi Stamps Club
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