Best new Stamp Site on the web

If you run your own stamp website, beware of Stampworld. They lifted hundreds of images from my site without permission and have yet to remove them despite my requests.

I probably would have given them permission had they asked and/or included an attribution. But when they choose to rip-off my content without asking, it becomes a matter of principle.

Wow you guys are really cautious! I really have nothing to lose and I still like the site. It has a wealth of information and images...wherever they came from.

Personally I feel that if you put images online they are in the public domain.

I would call it just 'common sense', LOL. 

They use some of my Tuvalu and Canadian stamps, but I do state somewhere they are free to use along as credit and a link back are given, but I don't see that.

I agree with Perfs14 though, anything online is pretty well public domain

 here is a bit of common sense, finally!

Mitch, does your site have a page that links to this article?  It's helpful, and it makes me wonder what else you might have on the site.  But I can't find anything that links to this page!  Google knows it's there - if I search for "llamacomparison" it can find the page, but nothing that links to it (which makes me wonder how they found it in the first place ...).

Ryan

Ryan The main purpose of my site is to show stamps easily and quickly without any distracting componets. It seems that most sites I try to view are full of so much of this that I give up trying to find the stamps. A picture tells a thousand words so I see not much reason for a bunch of words. If anyone has further questions on a stamp or country they can easily Google which usually yields tons of info. The site is simplistic as possible which is the way I like things and besides that way I don't have to show off my HTML and other language codes which are very limited. I have many ideas on how to improve content on the site but the time required to do so makes it questionable if it is worthwhile, after all I get nothing from this and if people can't Google what they want, I don't consider it my problem I would like to make countries searchable by year of issue but I'm not sure how to do this without spending many hundreds of hours. There are only but a few of the comparison pages but I plan to make many more of them because it does not require that much time and is very helpful to all collectors. As Richard pointed out these pages can be found under the thumbnails of each page in the main index for each country. See the 8th page of Greece here: mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/europe/greece/greece.html

BC Thanks much for the appreciation. I lived for many a year on the Olympic Peninsula about 20 miles South of Port Angeles. I was fortunate to visit the beautiful Province of British Columbia on many occasion. Victoria and Vancouver are two of the finest cities I have ever visited. Here is a page I do not have up on my site because it is rather pitiful but of course it is a very difficult area to collect. Unfortunately I have more forgeries than genuine.
I actually prefer mint stamps (because nothing is impeding the design) the exceptions are nice S.O.N. CDS's or "fancy cancels".  I decided long ago I would have to collect either if I was going to come up with a good showing

Ah, there we go - I knew there was a system!  I had managed to browse pages that didn't have any of these links, now I'll know to be on the lookout for them.

Ryan