Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2018 21:24:02 GMT
When I do forgery research I have many foreign forums and members I turn to.
Also I have a list of some 20 major eBay sellers who regularly sell forgeries. They have sales in the range of 50,000-250,000stamps - you do the math!
By sheer numbers they maintain 98%-99% ratings despite having 100's of negatives
By sheer numbers they maintain 98%-99% ratings despite having 100's of negatives
Recently, I am doing some preliminary work on Romania and came across these lottery offers.
Now these stamps are originally 160 years old so these are obviously too well preserved.
The 27 comes only in black on rose.
The 27 comes only in black on rose.
Any minor research on Romania would tell you these are really bad forgeries.
So, the astute sellers puts them in a lottery
The description states " they may be forgeries but if they are real they would be worth $1000's" (CV is ~ $60,000 for one)
The added description notes that "you might have just made thousands by bidding on these".
Some 15 bids later they are sold for a nice profit and the seller is in the clear.
The description states " they may be forgeries but if they are real they would be worth $1000's" (CV is ~ $60,000 for one)
The added description notes that "you might have just made thousands by bidding on these".
Some 15 bids later they are sold for a nice profit and the seller is in the clear.
This well know forgery seller has another angle
He describes them as "possibly forgeries but if real, the CV is $XX,XXX.00 ...so you the buyer be the judge".
They look old, the colors are right and they are fair forgeries but only a handful of real ones actually exist and this seller apparently has 3 of them!.
Given that these are in the range of $75,000 he puts a starting bid of $7.95 each and after many bids, he nets about $300
They look old, the colors are right and they are fair forgeries but only a handful of real ones actually exist and this seller apparently has 3 of them!.
Given that these are in the range of $75,000 he puts a starting bid of $7.95 each and after many bids, he nets about $300
If anyone is interested in making a quick profit I will post some of these frequent lottery opportunities ... you never know 
