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I think the stamps I bought on eBay might be fake

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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: smack Down
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Were you buying them as a collector or something? Otherwise I can't imagine why you would buy stamps on eBay.
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you can get them at a discount. discounts were better pre-39 cent though.
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Yeah and I have some 20 dollar bills I'm selling for 5 dollars a pop.
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try looking at ebay jackass....stamps were selling there at roughly 85-90% of face value before the increase.
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So your saying you want to pay 18 dollars for my fake 20's??? Sounds better to me.
 
Where do these suppliers get their stamps then? Does the post office have discounts for bulk purchases? 😕 I've never heard of that.
 
Originally posted by: LarryS
They are generally stolen merchandise. The post office does not discount first class stamps.
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Stamps have been sold at a discount for decades, but not by the USPS. Companies buy stamps and either go out of business, or decide to switch to a postage meter, or find they no longer need large quantities of stamps. And collectors often buy entire sheets of new stamps for years, then later on find out they have no value above the postage.

So there are lots of bought-and-paid-for stamps out there. You can't return them for a refund, so all you can do is sell them to someone else.

Now, if someone wanted to sell you a bunch of (for example) 34 cent stamps (a now-obsolete first-class rate), what would you pay? 34 cents? No, because you realize you'd need to use two stamps every time, and it's easier to buy new 39 cent stamps and use just one. So to find a buyer, they end up selling at a discount.
 
why in the f*ck would somebody buy stamps on ebay? you think you were getting them cheaper or somthing? if so i hope they are fake and you got ripped off.
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
why in the f*ck would somebody buy stamps on ebay? you think you were getting them cheaper or somthing? if so i hope they are fake and you got ripped off.
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wow...aren't you the next coming of Maddox. And an idiot just like him to boot.
 
I got pretty much the same exact ones from my local grocery store last week. Said 2005 on the "backing", but 2006 on the stamp itself.

 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
I got pretty much the same exact ones from my local grocery store last week. Said 2005 on the "backing", but 2006 on the stamp itself.
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how was the print quality compared to my two examples?
 
since those say first class on them. how can they tell if it's a first-class stamp if they raise the price again?
 
It's hard to tell anything really. Do you have a "Real" stamp that you can scan next to a fake one? So we can look at a real one vs a "fake" one right next to eachother, on the same scanner, same quality, etc?
 
Does the post office sell stamps with the same picture in different physical arrangements? I have those exact stamps in a 2x10 folding booklet.

Also see how yours come to a square corner where the perferations cross? Mine do not do that. They keep zigzaging so the crossing is not square in relation to the booklet edges.
 
Compared to the top stamp, yeah the other ones don't look the same. The top one is more crisp and dark around the arm and stuff and the sky is darker
 
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