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Old November 11th 11, 01:37 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
Terry Reedy
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Default 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


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