Retail price vs catalogue values
"Sir F. A. Rien" wrote in message
. .. Billns found these unused words: On 9/2/2011 9:08 AM, Sir F. A. Rien wrote: Depends upon the 'level' of the catalogue. Simple basic Scutt type won't as they don't even cover all the isses properly. I've never heard of the Scutt catalog that you often refer to. :) It's the overpriced, multiple volume US published 'catalogue' that omits many acutal issues or only partly covers many others. snip for brevity Pricing is so far removed from actual retail or auction that it's like the LIST price on the TV infomercials, snip for brevity There ain't no such a thing as a retail price for stamps, just one for each individual stamp. This price depends on different things, like for example grading, and it is established on the market. To complain for this reason about unrealistic catalogue values doesn't make much sense to me because different values/prices are compared. Note: I don't speak here about modern MNH stamps, produced in big quantities for topical stamp collectors. -- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Retail price vs catalogue values
On 9/19/2011 2:00 PM, Victor Manta wrote:
Pricing is so far removed from actual retail or auction that it's like the LIST price on the TV infomercials, snip for brevity There ain't no such a thing as a retail price for stamps, just one for each individual stamp. This price depends on different things, like for example grading, and it is established on the market. To complain for this reason about unrealistic catalogue values doesn't make much sense to me because different values/prices are compared. Note: I don't speak here about modern MNH stamps, produced in big quantities for topical stamp collectors. Thanks for providing this additional information, Victor. I doubt that Rien has even looked at an actual printed Scott color catalog. Yes, these catalogs are expensive, but the color stamp images are excellent, much better than what Scott used to provide in gray-scale. You are absolutely right. High-value stamp prices are all over the lot, depending on factors such as condition and who might be bidding at a particular auction. I look at catalog prices as estimates only. Scott provides a conditions guide that affects the given catalog value up or down from the stated value. Google must know who Rien is. If you search for "Scutt catalog" it provides search results for Scott. :) Bill |
Retail price vs catalogue values
"Billns" wrote in message
... On 9/19/2011 2:00 PM, Victor Manta wrote: Pricing is so far removed from actual retail or auction that it's like the LIST price on the TV infomercials, snip for brevity There ain't no such a thing as a retail price for stamps, just one for each individual stamp. This price depends on different things, like for example grading, and it is established on the market. To complain for this reason about unrealistic catalogue values doesn't make much sense to me because different values/prices are compared. Note: I don't speak here about modern MNH stamps, produced in big quantities for topical stamp collectors. Thanks for providing this additional information, Victor. I doubt that Rien has even looked at an actual printed Scott color catalog. Yes, these catalogs are expensive, but the color stamp images are excellent, much better than what Scott used to provide in gray-scale. You are absolutely right. High-value stamp prices are all over the lot, depending on factors such as condition and who might be bidding at a particular auction. I look at catalog prices as estimates only. Scott provides a conditions guide that affects the given catalog value up or down from the stated value. Google must know who Rien is. If you search for "Scutt catalog" it provides search results for Scott. :) Bill Fully agree. BTW, Google knows even more about Rien, as follows: "Now the Edith Piaf song Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - which translates as ''No, I'm not sorry for anything'' - has been revealed as the most popular non-classical track to be chosen by castaways on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...land-Disc.html Pierre va apprécier. -- Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Retail price vs catalogue values
Victor Manta wrote :
........... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...land-Disc.html Pierre va apprécier. Indeeeeeeeeeeed Victor :-) Just discovering this thread, 3 days after your post :-( All you want to know about Edith Piaf : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dith_Piaf -- All the best, Pierre Courtiade to answer me, please replace NOSPAM by my family name |
Retail price vs catalogue values
"Pierre COURTIADE" wrote in message
... Victor Manta wrote : .......... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...land-Disc.html Pierre va apprécier. Indeeeeeeeeeeed Victor :-) Just discovering this thread, 3 days after your post :-( All you want to know about Edith Piaf : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dith_Piaf :-) Edith Piaf on French FDC: http://tinyurl.com/3fx4zkv -- Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.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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