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Cheap postage stamps
NJBrown
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An advert for55% off postage stamps keeps popping up on Facebook. It offers 80 2nd class stamps (barcoded) for £25.90. Is it safe to buy them?
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You probably won’t know until you get to the post office and they refuse them as being fakes.I sell stamps cheap on Facebook sometimes because I have a surplus but I don’t sell them that cheaply. If it seems too good to be true and all that……All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
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Makes me wonder why anyone would pay full price for something and then sell it on at a discount. If they weren't barcoded and using non barcoded was ok then maybe in someone bought the stamps and 2p each and they're now worth £ so even at a discount they're making money.
The fact that it's an ongoing advert on FB and they're barcoded makes me think they're counterfeit.I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Debt Free Wannabe, Old Style Money Saving and Pensions boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
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Perfectly safe to buy them. Just don't expect them to be valid for use!NJBrown said:An advert for55% off postage stamps keeps popping up on Facebook. It offers 80 2nd class stamps (barcoded) for £25.90. Is it safe to buy them?Googling on your question might have been both quicker and easier, if you're only after simple facts rather than opinions!2 -
I would never buy stamps from a company where there is a discount, especially from outside the UK. I have been a fundraiser for charities over thirty years mostly collecting used, new and obsolete postage stamps and know of at least one dealer that would sell his own granny to make money. I also know innocent people who have bought stamps from eBay and other online companies and had their Christmas cards turn up at the recipients address with a yellow sticker on them due to being fake.0
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