CRYPTO STAMPS - Austria - Catalogue

[Agrawas]

Is it possible to translate their entire website?

I’m afraid the time will expire and during checkout, I will be trying to guess if they’re asking for my phone number or my credit card number.

Yeah, I got through it last year with not many issues. I don't think they like sold out in a day either, it took at least a few if memory serves....

You are right, it was pretty straight forward. I am actually more worried about the shipping delays happening due to COVID?

[wheelz1200]

Is it possible to translate their entire website?

I’m afraid the time will expire and during checkout, I will be trying to guess if they’re asking for my phone number or my credit card number.

Yeah, I got through it last year with not many issues. I don't think they like sold out in a day either, it took at least a few if memory serves....

Yeah owl I think you are right it was like 7-10 before the complete sell out.  There were some days I took to research and ended up still getting some through the website days later.  Wonder how it goes this time around with locals probably knowing how much sets went for.  My fear really is that less rare ones will get into the wild fairly and not be pulled by employees

[Gatorelf]

what a cool idea , might have to get one of these

[teeGUMES]

Is there any technical difference between the "on-chain" stamps versus the ones on the cards?
Or any way to distinguish this?

This was the best explanation I had received about this from member GoWest when I was looking into buying some.

"Most Cryptostamps were sold as physical stamps (149,500 of them) and could only be transferred online if the private key was revealed on the physical stamp.

The OCS stamps were sold as purely digital stamps through the Online Chain Store (hence OCS) on the Austria Post website, and there were only 500 of them, though they do not have a distinct appearance. The owner then had the option of requesting the physical stamp AFTER the purchase was made (so, the opposite of the physical stamp). When the OCS stamps are first bought, they had the property of "Sold." When the physical stamp was requested, the property changed to "ShippingSubmitted," then "ShippingConfirmed."

So the rarest of the CryptoStamps are the OCS (500 of the 150,000), and there are only 3 of those 500 that are red."

[bitbollo]

Is there any technical difference between the "on-chain" stamps versus the ones on the cards?
Or any way to distinguish this?

...they do not have a distinct appearance...

According their website this was another way to sell stamps 

If you take on your hand a stamp purchased on-chain vs a stamp purchased on shop there are not differences.
So these are exactly the same.
From a collector prospective (classic stamp collection) there is NO rarity (in fact I haven't added to my catalogue/classification).

Technically a digital one is not "a stamp" since unless you receive at your address it can't be used for... postage!

[tweetious]

Is there any technical difference between the "on-chain" stamps versus the ones on the cards?
Or any way to distinguish this?

I agree with what the others said. Another characteristic that makes them unique IMO is the following:

When I bought the on-chain stamp, I requested for delivery of the physical stamp. When I received the physical stamp and compared it to other off-chain physical stamps, it was exactly the same.

However, the uniqueness here, is that I had a physical stamp, unscratched (in mint condition) were at the same time, the digital stamp token (corresponding to that physical stamp) was already in my ETH addy. When you purchase from the on-chain store, you receive the digital stamp to your ETH addy.

This is pretty unique (and not quite sure if it is a correct implementation/designing way), since I have in my possession an unscratched/unredeemed physical stamp, with an already redeemed digital token.

To be honest, I was expecting to receive a scratched physical stamp.  I have 2 of those physical on-chain unscathed stamps, hence this shouldn't be coincident.

Edit: So to answer the question "any way to distinguish this": If you have a physical stamp, by checking the 6 digit code, you can easily distinguish if it is an on-chain or off-chain stamp. (at the on-chain stamp you will see the tx that the digital stamp was "moved")