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Sounds like those are sheets from the 80s. I always heard that you could not even sell those for face value.
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If they are bags full of stamps, a price based on weight or number of stamps is more reasonable than face value or catalogue value. If this dealer wants to calculate a selling price like that, fine, but do not expect that I pay for his hours of work at a certain hourly rate. If it is really a few bags, I estimate that it will take a few working days. Hours for which he should not expect to be paid.
If I were in his shoes, I would take note of the price for which I acquired these bags, think what I would like my profit to be and base my price on that. If I can double my investment without much effort, I'd be pleased. That could mean that the selling price is 5 or 10% of the theoretical aggregated catalogue value, but so be it.
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You said it!
I just bought a collection of Mint US from somebody who wanted it GONE.
Paid $40 for what I think is around $750 of modern and semi-modern face, I am set for a while on postage.
(That is NOT counting all the year sets & Mounts in there...)
This is the price I was offered BTW, and I said it was too low, but the lady did not care, just wanted to clean up!
-Ari
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An elderly, obviously wealthy man once gifted a small collection of MNH Canadian and British Commonwealth Stamps to my stamp club, the British Columbia Philatelic Society. It included a block of four VF "Bluenose" stamps that included the "Man on the mast" variety. We sold it at auction for something like CAN $2,000. I told the gentleman that the block of stamps was very valuable, but that wasn't a concern to him. He wasn't a collector; he'd inherited the collection from his father and just wanted to support the club.
Several years ago I participated in a study at the University of British Columbia that was trying to determine if the production of "feel-good" hormones increased as a result of giving charitable gifts to needy people or organizations. I was given CAN $40 to give to anyone I wished who fit into that category.
I took several "biomarker" blood and saliva tests before I gave the money away. The money went to the son of a Vietnam Veteran, a member of my U.S. Marine Corps company who was killed in the battle for Hill 50, on March 5, 1966. He was trying to establish a memorial to his father by having a school named after his father. After the gift giving, I took the same biomarker tests. Unfortunately, I never learned the outcome of that study. I should try to find out what, if anything, was determined.
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There are not many stamp only stores left in the world including in my neck of the woods but my local coin, silver, gold etc exchange has boxes and boxes of stamps and albums to pick through. Today I went to cash a few ounces of silver and spotted and inquired about a couple bags of MNH US stamps I had my eye on for awhile. I gave the proprietor what I thought was a fair offer, face value, which was between 22 and 32 cents each. His counter offer was 75% off catalog value. So I was thinking as I left the store those stamps were there a year ago and still here today. I just don’t get it. Did he really want me to hang around while he looked up every stamp and did he really want to look up every stamp? A bird in hand is better than two in the bush. I’ll bet those stamps are still there next year.
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Sounds like those are sheets from the 80s. I always heard that you could not even sell those for face value.
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If they are bags full of stamps, a price based on weight or number of stamps is more reasonable than face value or catalogue value. If this dealer wants to calculate a selling price like that, fine, but do not expect that I pay for his hours of work at a certain hourly rate. If it is really a few bags, I estimate that it will take a few working days. Hours for which he should not expect to be paid.
If I were in his shoes, I would take note of the price for which I acquired these bags, think what I would like my profit to be and base my price on that. If I can double my investment without much effort, I'd be pleased. That could mean that the selling price is 5 or 10% of the theoretical aggregated catalogue value, but so be it.
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re: Brick and Mortar Stamp Stores
You said it!
I just bought a collection of Mint US from somebody who wanted it GONE.
Paid $40 for what I think is around $750 of modern and semi-modern face, I am set for a while on postage.
(That is NOT counting all the year sets & Mounts in there...)
This is the price I was offered BTW, and I said it was too low, but the lady did not care, just wanted to clean up!
-Ari
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re: Brick and Mortar Stamp Stores
An elderly, obviously wealthy man once gifted a small collection of MNH Canadian and British Commonwealth Stamps to my stamp club, the British Columbia Philatelic Society. It included a block of four VF "Bluenose" stamps that included the "Man on the mast" variety. We sold it at auction for something like CAN $2,000. I told the gentleman that the block of stamps was very valuable, but that wasn't a concern to him. He wasn't a collector; he'd inherited the collection from his father and just wanted to support the club.
Several years ago I participated in a study at the University of British Columbia that was trying to determine if the production of "feel-good" hormones increased as a result of giving charitable gifts to needy people or organizations. I was given CAN $40 to give to anyone I wished who fit into that category.
I took several "biomarker" blood and saliva tests before I gave the money away. The money went to the son of a Vietnam Veteran, a member of my U.S. Marine Corps company who was killed in the battle for Hill 50, on March 5, 1966. He was trying to establish a memorial to his father by having a school named after his father. After the gift giving, I took the same biomarker tests. Unfortunately, I never learned the outcome of that study. I should try to find out what, if anything, was determined.
Bob
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