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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
I put an offer in Linn's to try to send some of the amount (absurd,
really) of philatelic material that I have accumulated -- country- separated glassines from kiloware, old album pages, the nine extra covers that came with the tenth that I *really* wanted -- everyone understands, I'm sure. I priced a large U.S. Priority Mail envelope full of such material, fully and carefully packed, postpaid to anywhere in the U.S, at $35, which I thought was reasonable and would encourage orders.. I received a (fully-negotiable) U.S. money order in the amount of $50, accompanied by a leaf of paper covered, both sides, in almost illegible script. Once I had figured out most of the glyphs, I had then to understand the English, which may have been translated word- for-word from a Something-to-English dictionary -- word order was all wrong, and word choices were odd. I worked on it for a good ten minutes with the gentleman who works the counter at my mailbox store, and we were able to decipher that the writer wanted assurance that the stamps were not fake, as he thought this deal too good to be true, and to guarantee that the stamps were NOT fake, he was sending an extra $15. So, maybe we can revise the old saying: "If it seems too good to be true, just send more money than is asked for!" -- Joshua H. McGee Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ |
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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
On Jul 17, 1:54*am, Joshua McGee wrote:
I put an offer in Linn's to try to send some of the amount (absurd, really) of philatelic material that I have accumulated -- country- separated glassines from kiloware, old album pages, the nine extra covers that came with the tenth that I *really* wanted -- everyone understands, I'm sure. *I priced a large U.S. Priority Mail envelope full of such material, fully and carefully packed, postpaid to anywhere in the U.S, at $35, which I thought was reasonable and would encourage orders.. I received a (fully-negotiable) U.S. money order in the amount of $50, accompanied by a leaf of paper covered, both sides, in almost illegible script. *Once I had figured out most of the glyphs, I had then to understand the English, which may have been translated word- for-word from a Something-to-English dictionary -- word order was all wrong, and word choices were odd. *I worked on it for a good ten minutes with the gentleman who works the counter at my mailbox store, and we were able to decipher that the writer wanted assurance that the stamps were not fake, as he thought this deal too good to be true, and to guarantee that the stamps were NOT fake, he was sending an extra $15. So, maybe we can revise the old saying: "If it seems too good to be true, just send more money than is asked for!" -- Joshua H. McGee Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: *http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ What did you do? Send him extra material or refund the $15? Blair |
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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
I once came across something a little similar to Joshua's letter.
I was running a (Japanese) translation department at the time, and a colleague from another area of the company had become smitten by one of my staff. The poor chap decided to write a letter declaring his feelings. He obtained from somewhere an English to Japanese Romanization dictionary, and proceeded to translate word by word. He brought the finished product to me for inspection. After seeing the salutation, which back translated meant 'Expensive Mariko', I knew we were going to have problems. In the end, I suggested he write or speak to her in English only, as the young lady was quite fluent in it. Tony |
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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
On Jul 16, 11:21*pm, Blair wrote:
What did you do? Send him extra material or refund the $15? I sent him higher-quality material, specially selected, including a very nice treat. I am honored that you assumed the best of me. -- Joshua H. McGee Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ |
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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
"Joshua McGee" wrote in message ... I put an offer in Linn's to try to send some of the amount (absurd, really) of philatelic material that I have accumulated -- country- separated glassines from kiloware, old album pages, the nine extra covers that came with the tenth that I *really* wanted -- everyone understands, I'm sure. I priced a large U.S. Priority Mail envelope full of such material, fully and carefully packed, postpaid to anywhere in the U.S, at $35, which I thought was reasonable and would encourage orders.. I received a (fully-negotiable) U.S. money order in the amount of $50, accompanied by a leaf of paper covered, both sides, in almost illegible script. Once I had figured out most of the glyphs, I had then to understand the English, which may have been translated word- for-word from a Something-to-English dictionary -- word order was all wrong, and word choices were odd. I worked on it for a good ten minutes with the gentleman who works the counter at my mailbox store, and we were able to decipher that the writer wanted assurance that the stamps were not fake, as he thought this deal too good to be true, and to guarantee that the stamps were NOT fake, he was sending an extra $15. Interesting story. Without being a specialist, I suppose that just a few good philatelic fakes could have made the lot more valuable than the overprice that this gentleman paid. Or am I wrong? -- Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
"Joshua McGee" really) of philatelic material that I have accumulated -- country- separated glassines from kiloware, old album pages, the nine extra covers that came with the tenth that I *really* wanted -- everyone understands, I'm sure. Sure....this is a "phossick box" or "Gilbert's choice" or "glad box" or "pandora's box" or "carton number one'.....or "stamp widow's discards" Used to be my favourite auction purchase, but someone here has cottoned on, they now go for ridiculous prices, the last IIRC with a reserve of $40 knocked down at $260. |
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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
On Jul 17, 6:46*pm, "rodney" pookiethai@NOSPAM iprimus.com.au wrote:
"Joshua McGee" really) of philatelic material that I have accumulated -- country- separated glassines from kiloware, old album pages, the nine extra covers that came with the tenth that I *really* wanted -- everyone understands, I'm sure. Sure....this is a "phossick box" *or *"Gilbert's choice" *or "glad box" or "pandora's box" * * * * * * or "carton number one'.....or *"stamp widow's discards" Used to be my favourite auction purchase, but someone here has cottoned on, they now go for ridiculous prices, the last IIRC with a reserve of $40 knocked down at $260. What was in it? Obviously somebody had done their homework. Blair |
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"Here's an extra $15 to make sure you don't send me fake stamps"
To be quite frank, Blair, I am not sure, phossick boxes are extremely tiring to browse, I saw early Turkey, possibly 3 or 4 pages that I would have happily paid $50 to pick over and put the box back to auction. Somebody obviously had seen something nice for them. However, I remember once losing a bidding war at the old washing machine room, and afterwards I approached the other bidder for the cinderellas in one of the Chinese stockbooks, you see it had apparently been a "schoolboys" album, and the lad had stuck early footy stickers for local Perth teams, and that was what the other collector was after. example from the club my son belongs to http://cjoint.com/data/hseLjHImVp.htm I guess you really never know I know of a chap who pays for his overseas trips by selling playing cards, he brings back a suitcase full, and his collector pays retail, takes just the ace and the jack then sells the balance to a friend in Sydney. "Blair" What was in it? Obviously somebody had done their homework. Blair |
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