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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
08:57:16pm
3-4 stamps - 30 cents
5-10 stamps - 40 cents
more than 10 stamps - 50 cents
I have paid much more than that to complete or almost complete some sets.
Bob
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duhhhhhhhh
and these are professionals who help set Scott's values?
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To me this is a clear indication that USPS issues TOO MANY COMMEMORATIVES. FV for a Harry Potter stamp is 49c and CV is 50c USED?!?!? Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the price is wrong, but if it's cheaper to buy the stamps and send them to yourself than buying them postally used, there are just too many Commemoratives being issued.
This is why my boys aren't interested in stamps. There is no chance of them seeing more than a small fraction of all those stamps on incoming mail. When I was young, checking trash cans at my Dad's office and my Grandfather's office often got most Commemoratives and the common definitives. Now? It's impossible.
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FYI, while we're speaking of the Scott catalogs, the price for each volume of the 2015 catalog set will be the same as last year.
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It is very rare that I see ANY commemoratives come in the mail. About the only ones I see are the ones I send. Our oil company used to save them for me but they get so few they stopped--said it wasn't working for them.
Roger 
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02:54:05am
" .... When I was young, checking trash cans at my Dad's office and my Grandfather's office often got most Commemoratives and the common definitives. ...."
In the late '50s and throughout the 1960s I was often in Manhattan with time on my hands and would visit certain post offices, one near Penn Station, another near Grand Central Station and several when I'd walk from mid-town down to the Custom House and Wall Street area. I'd try to act like a casual customer and would drift past the small waste cans where often people would slit open their main and discard the envelopes. Overseas mail and certain high value USA were always exciting to spot and with some practice unobtrusively lift out to the counter top to tear the stamps away.
Today I still feel the pull to at least check the trash cans out but it must be several years since I last spotted something worth retrieving.
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"Today I still feel the pull to at least check the trash cans out but it must be several years since I last spotted something worth retrieving."
Charlie, the original dumpster diver....
Many of my customers are new Americans. I try to engage them in a stamp discussion whenever possible. Not often but I do get WW postage, usually from packages....
There are still ways of finding stamps, just getting more and more scarce
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"and these are professionals who help set Scott's values?"
sometimes a dartboard and blindfold work..... sometimes not
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They should just make a few commemoratives a year and I bet people would be more interested.
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12 Mar 2014
08:57:16pm
In the February 17th issue of Linn's there was an article from the Scott's Editors about pricing used stamps. They are going to be increasing the used value of stamps from multiple-stamp panes. They have finally realized that completing a set of the Harry Potter set is almost impossible. The pricing goes like this - if the set has:
3-4 stamps - 30 cents
5-10 stamps - 40 cents
more than 10 stamps - 50 cents
I have paid much more than that to complete or almost complete some sets.
Bob
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re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
duhhhhhhhh
and these are professionals who help set Scott's values?
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re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
To me this is a clear indication that USPS issues TOO MANY COMMEMORATIVES. FV for a Harry Potter stamp is 49c and CV is 50c USED?!?!? Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the price is wrong, but if it's cheaper to buy the stamps and send them to yourself than buying them postally used, there are just too many Commemoratives being issued.
This is why my boys aren't interested in stamps. There is no chance of them seeing more than a small fraction of all those stamps on incoming mail. When I was young, checking trash cans at my Dad's office and my Grandfather's office often got most Commemoratives and the common definitives. Now? It's impossible.
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11:48:23pm
re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
FYI, while we're speaking of the Scott catalogs, the price for each volume of the 2015 catalog set will be the same as last year.
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re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
It is very rare that I see ANY commemoratives come in the mail. About the only ones I see are the ones I send. Our oil company used to save them for me but they get so few they stopped--said it wasn't working for them.
Roger
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14 Mar 2014
02:54:05am
re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
" .... When I was young, checking trash cans at my Dad's office and my Grandfather's office often got most Commemoratives and the common definitives. ...."
In the late '50s and throughout the 1960s I was often in Manhattan with time on my hands and would visit certain post offices, one near Penn Station, another near Grand Central Station and several when I'd walk from mid-town down to the Custom House and Wall Street area. I'd try to act like a casual customer and would drift past the small waste cans where often people would slit open their main and discard the envelopes. Overseas mail and certain high value USA were always exciting to spot and with some practice unobtrusively lift out to the counter top to tear the stamps away.
Today I still feel the pull to at least check the trash cans out but it must be several years since I last spotted something worth retrieving.
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re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
"Today I still feel the pull to at least check the trash cans out but it must be several years since I last spotted something worth retrieving."
Charlie, the original dumpster diver....
Many of my customers are new Americans. I try to engage them in a stamp discussion whenever possible. Not often but I do get WW postage, usually from packages....
There are still ways of finding stamps, just getting more and more scarce
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re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
"and these are professionals who help set Scott's values?"
sometimes a dartboard and blindfold work..... sometimes not
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05:37:08pm
re: Scott to Increase Catalogue Value for Used Stamps From Multi-Pane Stamps - It's About Time
They should just make a few commemoratives a year and I bet people would be more interested.
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