Newbie satmp seller - how to list - pics etc

[Juliebabe25]

Thanks for the info.

there must be a lot less stamp collectors nowadys.

[MPS16]

....there must be a lot less stamp collectors nowadys.

And or because of the internet, low cost scanners, cheap postage for letter rate items, it means that a stamp collector has never had so much worldwide choice.

[stampsandcoins1]

And or because of the internet, low cost scanners, cheap postage for letter rate items, it means that a stamp collector has never had so much worldwide choice.

Quite right. The competition is fierce and as I said before it is a buyers market. I am having a listing day today and my stamps are priced at about 10% of catalogue value. My target is 1000 listings by this time next week.

It is the way of the world, millions of stamps out there for sale. Be competitive or die (so to speak).

Lord knows how many collectors are out there and as MPS said they have a world of choice.

Happy sales to everyone and list list list!

Best wishes
Alan

http://stampsandcoins1.ebid.net

[FirstGreenIsGold]

Thanks for the info.

there must be a lot less stamp collectors nowadys.

Supply and demand. And the times they are a changin' as well. Young 'uns have iPads and 3D movies and video games.

The global marketplace has shattered any illusion of 'scarcity'.

Julie, we ended up with an accumulation of stamps. My husband's father was a stamp collector, but he crossed over a few decades ago. Husband's mother accumulated a lot of mint Canadian stamps after FIL crossed. She really wasn't a collector, but I think that she thought of them as an investment. Maybe accumulating the stamps was something else to her ... I don't know.

All I know is that the money spent on the mint Canadian stamps would have been better off in a coffee can. haha. But now I can have the fun of cataloguing them.

Yes, this is all quite time consuming. The upside is that I'm learning some things about history and geography that I didn't know about. My 'stamping' is another thing to add to my list of past-times that keep me busy at this stage of life.

So, as a novice, I'll do my best to learn and to list. The pricing is difficult, that's for sure.

If I don't manage to sell any stamps, then so be it. But, I'll give it a try.

[Juliebabe25]

Thanks for the wise words of wisdom.

I suppose the low prices are a combination of the ease of buying on the internet fro all over the world.
And the fact that younger people do not collect so much stuff theses days as they are more into music and Ipads and Youtube etc.

I'll try a few listings when I get time.

[20sent06]

hmm.. not a stamp seller either, but if you really can't be bothered to list individually, then how about doing bulk lots: for example, sell a one-country lot, say, 500 New Zealand Stamps from 1900 to 1950 at $x...

[gbsbks2010]

Another suggestion for you, is to list a page or some pages from your dad's albums at a time, with just some close up pictures of the more desirable stamps. (I am assuming that the pages from the albums are removable).