I've been a member of Delcampe for a little over a year and I've been pleased with my purchases until lately. Recently I've been wasting a lot of money on poorly described rubbish. I don't know if it's just plain laziness on the part of sellers or if they are deliberately intending to mislead. I've ended up buying too many postcards that have no description what-so-ever and no scan of the back. They look like vintage postcards, but when I receive them I find they are modern reproductions which have no place in my collection. In some cases they aren't even postcards and have ended up the garbage where they belong. Do I have to ask every seller for a scan of the back or more details? I really shouldn't have to. I will honour the last few bids which I've placed, but I will have think long and hard if I will bid on any more postcards on this website.

you should tell us the sellers name if the cards are fake

I would love to tell everyone who has cheated me, but Delcampe rules don't allow it. The fact is that the cards aren't fake, they are real postcards. They're just modern reproductions that can still be bought new today, or at least recently, and are being sold for many times what they are worth. Some collectors may be happy with them, but I am not. I'm sure, however, that no one would be pleased to receive the pictures (not even real photos) that are being sold as postcards. They're not even on postcard quality paper. It would be one thing if sellers were up-front and honest about what they are trying to sell, but when they list these pictures in the postcard catagory, don't show a scan of the back and don't put a single word in the description, I can't help feeling they are deliberately trying to mislead buyers. When I bought 13 "pictures" from one buyer I left appropriate feed back, so he changed the feed back he had already left for me to neutrual. I did nothing wrong except tell the truth.

I just got another one today. Sellers like this are making the Delcampe experience an unpleasant one. But please don't get me wrong. There are only a few "bad apples" and most of my purchases have positive. It's just a few who are ruining it for others.