Fancy cancellations- home-made- lots of large pics!

Yes, caveat venditor is what I meant; my fingers stumbled as is often the case the blog writing. Interestingly, caveat vendit also means "seller beware," but, recta dicis, the more common aphorism is caveat venditor. The point is that a person selling goods needs to responsible for providing accurate information about them to the purchaser, something all too rare on auction sites like ebay, Delcampe, auctionzip, etc. Moreover, as the pictures of your destroyed examples demonstrate, photos are not enough to provide necessary assurances to buyers, nor are glib disclaimers. The responsibility for determining the quality of a stamp rests not primarily on the buyer, wary as he or she may be, but on the seller who is clearly in the best position to know. I want wary, cautious sellers! What would we do if medicines were sold caveat emptor? Or processed foods? Or children's toys? So, until better accountability for sellers is in place, I will buy or sell stamps only infrequently via internet auctions. When I do sell, I try to describe exactly what I'm selling in both photos and words, with guarantees. I gather you would do the same.

To my surprise, I seem to have struck a defensive chord in you, which was not my intention.