I've just found a seller with 11,500 items, who has just joined ebid and is still on Obey as well (at the moment). He operates looking like a business but is private - no one cares there and isn't so cryptic about it. It may be that it's his collection of old - who knows, but when anyone sells here please remember this site used to be MORE about collecting. BUT It's become more about business now and I understand business sellers frustration at Chinese sellers who arrived and trade from outside the UK BUT use a UK address??? Its clearly wrong, but Obey did nothing.
As for those 'businesses' who trade as stamp, coin, postcard and goodness knows what ever else is collected - it's difficult to see who is a genuine collector (inheritor) disposing and who is a business avoiding - it's also difficult to prove, unless they openly buy and sell on the same account? Unikely - but I have seen it.
Anyway the point is the genuine collectors will leave as they can no longer sell cheaply and they are the same people who buy here - so businesses will suffer as well.
I don't collect stamps anymore- but i do keep my Queen Victoria and a few others - want the rest gone, just inherited more I don't need, but now at a stroke Obey have stopped me selling here as I can't put a stamp on a packet of stamps that's going to a stamp collector - do they want a label? Of course they don't, but no one has thought of that - been watching the stamp listings drop and they have not really started to plunge yet as SD has not taken over. It's one that was really thought out by dimwits!
