Bad Trade.Or What

God day all I hope you are not snowed in.
We are getting it here in KY and have been
All day and yes I am glad to see the snow.

One thing I enjoy is trading stamps with other
Collectors to get other country's stamps to add
to my stamp collect, I meet this one person in
One of the yahoo group and me and him did
some trades that I was pleased with, but was
only trading 50 to 100 at a time.

Well he talked me in to doing a real big trade
1,000 US stamps and some FDC so I sent them
to him first because we had trading in the past
and I though I had come to trust me and that he
would send them to me, well finely after two

months of waiting on them they come and was

all ready to spend the day enjoy going through

the stamps.

If you could have only seen my face when I

Opened the package up to find out what he had

sent me My heart just Drop I did not get 1,000

nice used World wide stamps In stead I got

1,000 pieces of TRASH and no FDC at all,

The photo above is one of the

trash stamps that I got.

Now wait I know you are asking why is that trash?
because you can not even see what country the stamp
Is from with the necked eye so I got out the looking
Glass (A 4 X Magnifier) and even with it I still could not
see the stamp or make out the country either.

So I put the stamp in the scanner and started

scanning it 150 dpi 300 dpi 600 dpi till I

finely end up scanning it at 2400 dpi

Be for I could see the stamp because the stamp
was in so bad of shape talk about being faded.

So I wanted to talk to him about the stamps

he sent me so after all most a month of him not

replying to my messages. I tried to reach him through

the group that is when they groups Owner and other

members let me know that he has done.
This in the past to other group members.

So that is when I asked the group Owner

and Moderators Why do you let such a person be

A member of the group If you know that they have

burned other members of the group In the past,

and that is when I learned that the group Owner
did not care about the members of the group

He was only after one thing and that is the number

of members that his group has.

well it is not the number of members that a group

has that makes it a good group, It is the Small number

of member that post to the group from the collecters

that are working hard to make it a Good group

and not filling up the group message board with
Off topic messages, I not looking for love or

how to last all night.
I want messages that have to do with stamps.

Well that is my 2¢.

Have a Happy (Stamping) snow day.

Buddy.
Budrow@Highland.Net.

Don't forget the only reason

you and I can see the stamp

is becaused it is so big of

a photo files just rezide

for the web.