The Big Philatelic Rip Off
By the creation of a monopolized market abroad, followed by limitations
imposed to local stamp collectors, the final goal was the rip off of Western stamp collectors in favor of Western dealers and of participating postal administrations from former European (and other) communist countries. Fortunately, many of Western collectors understood what was all about and avoided all together such kind of stamps. More here, on my new page: http://www.reds-on.postalstamps.biz/...ig-rip-off.htm -- Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
The Big Philatelic Rip Off
On 11/10/2011 7:23 AM, Victor Manta wrote:
By the creation of a monopolized market abroad, followed by limitations imposed to local stamp collectors, the final goal was the rip off of Western stamp collectors in favor of Western dealers and of participating postal administrations from former European (and other) communist countries. Fortunately, many of Western collectors understood what was all about and avoided all together such kind of stamps. More here, on my new page: http://www.reds-on.postalstamps.biz/...ig-rip-off.htm Interesting. Perhaps 30 years ago I got, as part of a box lot, about a decade's worth of CTO DDR sets -- all missing one value. So I figured they were a double ripoff -- CTO artificially limited. I had no idea how bad it was in Romania. The stuff I got from there was much more scattered. Perhaps some items have been dumped by dealers after selling what they could at the inflated prices. Terry |
The Big Philatelic Rip Off
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... Terry Reedy found these unused words: On 11/10/2011 7:23 AM, Victor Manta wrote: By the creation of a monopolized market abroad, followed by limitations imposed to local stamp collectors, the final goal was the rip off of Western stamp collectors in favor of Western dealers and of participating postal administrations from former European (and other) communist countries. Fortunately, many of Western collectors understood what was all about and avoided all together such kind of stamps. More here, on my new page: http://www.reds-on.postalstamps.biz/...ig-rip-off.htm Interesting. Perhaps 30 years ago I got, as part of a box lot, about a decade's worth of CTO DDR sets -- all missing one value. So I figured they were a double ripoff -- CTO artificially limited. I had no idea how bad it was in Romania. The stuff I got from there was much more scattered. Perhaps some items have been dumped by dealers after selling what they could at the inflated prices. Terry This practice extends all the way back to the 1890's when several journals began issuing 'Black Blots' against 'unnecessary' or 'limited' issues. With the passage of time, they are now 'collectible' and have full catalogue status - well ... to some! 1990, of course. The problems with these Central and Eastern European stamps wasn't their legitimacy (as it was the case with some Dunes, etc. issues) but how they were distributed. That's why it was difficult for the catalogue editors to totally ignore them but they haven't reasons to overprice them either, as they did. -- Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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