Hello everyone... just a few thoughts tonight.
1) thanks for reading the blog... you had just over 29,000 page views in April. I think we would have made 30,000 had it not been for me uploading, inadvertently, a large file which broke my upload bandwith limit and stopped many of you accessing the site yesterday. Sorry.
2) the month of May will be another busy month for me, family, work and travel, including the first A380 from Singapore to Tokyo Narita. On the A380 topic I was told by a dear friend that my prices for the Sinagpore London first flight covers were too high. So taking that feedback into account I have decided to offer them at 50% of the price quoted on the web site. Basically, Yes, I have to get some cash to pay off the Singapore London flights... and the Singapore Tokyo flights or should I say Soeul - Singapore - Narita - Soeul. You know what I mean.
So have a look at http://www.cddstamps.com/new_page_21.htm An unsigned FFC is now USD $19 inclusive of postage and packing. pretty good eh!!!!!! You could probably sell it for more on eBay. First in first served and I will leave this for my blog readers for a week before I announce this elsewhere.
I mentioned eBay... Ok,. what a lead in. You may have heard of the new eBay payment policy for Australia...
On 10 April 2008, ebay announced that:
• as of 21 May 2008, all items listed for sale on ebay.com.au must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods; and
• as of 17 June 2008, all items listed for sale must only offer payment via PayPal (or credit card transactions processed by PayPal) or cash on delivery.
On 11 April 2008, ebay International AG lodged an exclusive dealing notification with the ACCC in relation to the above conduct, which provides ebay with immunity under the TPA from this date.
The ACCC has commenced a consultation process in relation to the notification. People who wish to raise concerns about the notified conduct should lodge a public submission via adjudication@accc.gov.au by 2 May 2008.
You can see lots of comments about this on the Stampboard.com forum at: http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=256196#256196
and http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=5495 you should be aware of this.. it may affect you sooner than you think
3) finally I have been soaking some GB recently.. yes I know I need to get a life in between work and flying and sleep and stamps.. but I now have more than I need. I have taken out most of what I saw as defects and thought I'd offer 100+ GB Definitives to blog readers only for USD $3. that is to cover postage and packing, and I will try my hardest to make sure no duplicates.. stamps from GV to early QE II I expect ..pre 1960.. but who knows what could creep in as I have so much all mixed up... including really modern. payment by Paypal to cddstamps., or three US 1 dollar bills. ( or one 5 pound note ha ha ha ha ) or one Aussie $5 note.. you chose. I take Singapore $, Hong Kong $, Korean Won .. I am being sort of funny yet serious.......My address is in previous writings)
ok.. enough of my ramblings.. I must go to sleep..
Best wishes.. Hope to hear from you.. Enjoy your stamps..Michael.