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As part of that celebration they've honored some of their sellers. Here's a nice video about Noble Spirit stamp company. It's interesting and check out the stacks of high value Columbians!
http://cc.ebay.com/big/noble-spirit
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Tom, Thanks for posting! I saw this a few days ago, and you saved me the trouble. 
http://cc.ebay.com/big/noble-spirit
-Steve
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Irresistible, fetching, spectacular, massive, gleaming, wondrous, desirable, compelling, excellent, fantastic, admirable, amazing, charming, advanced, valuable, Valuable, VALUABLE.
V-A-L-U-A-B-L-E.
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I have nothing good to say about Noble Spirit. I certainly would not recommend him to any of my friends.
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Arno, don't know why but my favorite Noble adjective is "desirable." It's such a throw-away word. Why would I bid on something I didn't desire to own? All of those words are a waste of valuable title space anyway.
The only problem I have with Noble Spirit is their terrible descriptions of what the lots contain. They go to all of the trouble to provide hundreds of great photos of the contents, and then provide a silly stock phrase for the description:
"An area that is highly sought after by collectors, specialists and investors alike.
You are likely to find just about anything in here!
You owe it to yourself to make absolutely certain you view all the photos."
What does that mean anyway: "You are likely to find just about anything in here"?
Since their customer base is fairly large, there aren't too many bargains to be found there. I've only bought two lots from them in two years. But I was happy with those two lots.
-Steve
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Steve,
I was just poking fun at Noble's unique (irresistible, fabulous ...) lot descriptions. I have never bought anything from them, but looked at many lots they have had listed over the years. Because it is such a high volume seller, regardless of whatever search term you put in, some offers by this seller will always come up.
The video is well worth watching. The 20-some employees are just photographers, certainly not philatelists. Not knowing what to picture, they simply photograph everything. I'd say a classic case of "kill them with detail." Likewise the flowery descriptions are due to the fact that the employees are clueless for the most part and can't do any better than state that everything, whatever it is, is "highly sought after." It is all too pompous (pretentious, ostentatious, flamboyant ...) to me, but it appears they really have a working business model. So, congrats to that.
My best source of purchases remain stamp shows, where I can inspect what I buy, European ebay sellers for collections, and European Delcampe sellers for individual items. I have found that typical European collections are of better quality than the majority of U.S. formed collections.
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I liked the video from a business perspective, a look inside a successful mail order operation. And the volume! Arno is right, they have found a working business model.
I bought something from them over the summer which put me on their email list, which is how I saw the video. I bought a lot of early 20th Century New Jersey postcards for $25. It turned out to be much better than I expected, close to 100 nice old cards. It was like they took a dealers stock box and sold it to me. Each card was in a plastic sleeve and priced, some up to $10 each. I was very happy!
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I was astounded by the fact that they say they're doing a quarter of a million dollars a month! Being an ebay operation, I wonder how they do their buying. They must have several full time buyers on the road.
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Can you believe eBay is 20 years old this year? Man, do I feel old.
As part of that celebration they've honored some of their sellers. Here's a nice video about Noble Spirit stamp company. It's interesting and check out the stacks of high value Columbians!
http://cc.ebay.com/big/noble-spirit
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Tom, Thanks for posting! I saw this a few days ago, and you saved me the trouble.
http://cc.ebay.com/big/noble-spirit
-Steve
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Irresistible, fetching, spectacular, massive, gleaming, wondrous, desirable, compelling, excellent, fantastic, admirable, amazing, charming, advanced, valuable, Valuable, VALUABLE.
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I have nothing good to say about Noble Spirit. I certainly would not recommend him to any of my friends.
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Arno, don't know why but my favorite Noble adjective is "desirable." It's such a throw-away word. Why would I bid on something I didn't desire to own? All of those words are a waste of valuable title space anyway.
The only problem I have with Noble Spirit is their terrible descriptions of what the lots contain. They go to all of the trouble to provide hundreds of great photos of the contents, and then provide a silly stock phrase for the description:
"An area that is highly sought after by collectors, specialists and investors alike.
You are likely to find just about anything in here!
You owe it to yourself to make absolutely certain you view all the photos."
What does that mean anyway: "You are likely to find just about anything in here"?
Since their customer base is fairly large, there aren't too many bargains to be found there. I've only bought two lots from them in two years. But I was happy with those two lots.
-Steve
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Steve,
I was just poking fun at Noble's unique (irresistible, fabulous ...) lot descriptions. I have never bought anything from them, but looked at many lots they have had listed over the years. Because it is such a high volume seller, regardless of whatever search term you put in, some offers by this seller will always come up.
The video is well worth watching. The 20-some employees are just photographers, certainly not philatelists. Not knowing what to picture, they simply photograph everything. I'd say a classic case of "kill them with detail." Likewise the flowery descriptions are due to the fact that the employees are clueless for the most part and can't do any better than state that everything, whatever it is, is "highly sought after." It is all too pompous (pretentious, ostentatious, flamboyant ...) to me, but it appears they really have a working business model. So, congrats to that.
My best source of purchases remain stamp shows, where I can inspect what I buy, European ebay sellers for collections, and European Delcampe sellers for individual items. I have found that typical European collections are of better quality than the majority of U.S. formed collections.
Arno
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I liked the video from a business perspective, a look inside a successful mail order operation. And the volume! Arno is right, they have found a working business model.
I bought something from them over the summer which put me on their email list, which is how I saw the video. I bought a lot of early 20th Century New Jersey postcards for $25. It turned out to be much better than I expected, close to 100 nice old cards. It was like they took a dealers stock box and sold it to me. Each card was in a plastic sleeve and priced, some up to $10 each. I was very happy!
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I was astounded by the fact that they say they're doing a quarter of a million dollars a month! Being an ebay operation, I wonder how they do their buying. They must have several full time buyers on the road.
-Ernie
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