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Bulk bags
Hiya all,
My local antique/tat shop has bags of GB stamps labeled unsorted bagged as recieved from local charity, they also have a dealers sticker on them. Has anyone had any experience with these sort of bags, surely they can't have passed through a dealer without him having a sift From the outside the bags look like they contain mainly commms with a few early-ish ER2. He want £1.50 a bag. Regards Craig |
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Thanks bob, i will be off down there tommorow, trouble is, i'm meant
to be sorting out not buying ! Craig On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:17:37 GMT, Bob Ingraham wrote: From: Craig Organization: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy! Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:37:42 GMT Subject: Bulk bags Hiya all, My local antique/tat shop has bags of GB stamps labeled unsorted bagged as recieved from local charity, they also have a dealers sticker on them. Has anyone had any experience with these sort of bags, surely they can't have passed through a dealer without him having a sift From the outside the bags look like they contain mainly commms with a few early-ish ER2. He want £1.50 a bag. Regards Craig From what I've seen in stamp shops and learned from dealers is that there are huge quantities of stamps that are sold "as is," without careful examination. This even includes albums stuffed with stamps. Dealers buy low, sell as high as they can -- that's capitalism! -- and if their customers find gold, they'll probably be repeat customers. It's all a matter of time and resources. The dealer I know best has stuff coming in the door all the time; she takes material on consignment for her auction, and buys stamps and collections outright. She barely has time each week to list the next week's auction lots. Of course, she is able to recognize when a collection has been put together with care and might well contain expensive stamps; such a collection will almost certainly receive close scrutiny before being offered for sale, priced accordingly. Bags such as you describe undoubtedly contain mostly common stamps. But there may well be intereting and sometimes valuable varieties, and even the odd single and possibly unusual stamp that shouldn't be there at all, but is. And remember, no dealer can possibly have a specialized understanding of all stamps and postal history. I have a friend who regularly makes incredible Third Reich purchases on eBay for peanuts, all because he understands Third Reich history and postal history and the sellers don't. Should you buy some of those bags? Only if it's worth the money to you. Such a small amount seems like inexpensive entertainment to me, and there's always the possibility of a great find. Whenever I buy something like that, I look through it for stamps of interest to me, then sell it at the next club auction. Bob Ingraham |
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"Bob Ingraham" wrote in message
... snip Dealers buy low, sell as high as they can -- that's capitalism! ... snip Bob Ingraham Capitalism is rather about the liberty of individuals to engage in non-compulsive relationships. There is no implied warranty that any of participants will gain from them, even if often the situations are of win-win nature. Victor Manta |
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I was recently in the UK, and while over there I picked up a packet of
US stamps. Now being from the US, some thought it odd that I would chose to buy some stamps from my own country. Well, as it turns out, the 5 pound bag that I bought paid for itself with only a few stamps. The moral is, you never know if you will find a great deal. You just have to take a chance. Regards, jlk On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:37:42 -0400, Craig wrote: Hiya all, My local antique/tat shop has bags of GB stamps labeled unsorted bagged as recieved from local charity, they also have a dealers sticker on them. Has anyone had any experience with these sort of bags, surely they can't have passed through a dealer without him having a sift From the outside the bags look like they contain mainly commms with a few early-ish ER2. He want £1.50 a bag. Regards Craig |
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"Bob Ingraham" wrote in message
... From: "Victor Manta" Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:39:29 +0200 Subject: Bulk bags "Bob Ingraham" wrote in message ... snip Dealers buy low, sell as high as they can -- that's capitalism! ... snip Bob Ingraham Capitalism is rather about the liberty of individuals to engage in non-compulsive relationships. There is no implied warranty that any of participants will gain from them, even if often the situations are of win-win nature. Victor Manta OK. You win. It's not capitalism. It's free enterprise! :^) Bob A free enterprise can in principle also buy high and sell low ;-) About the terms used, after Merriam-Webster: Free enterprise 1 : an economic system in which primary reliance is placed upon private business operating in competitive markets to satisfy consumer demands and to maintain equilibrium in the national economy and in which government action in this respect is restricted to protecting the rights of individuals rather than acting as a directing economic force 2 : a business enterprise operating under free enterprise Capitalism : an economic system characterized by private or corporation ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly in a free market ... Victor Manta |
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Dealers buy low, sell as high as they can -- that's capitalism! ... snip Bob Ingraham Capitalism is rather about the liberty of individuals to engage in non-compulsive relationships. There is no implied warranty that any of participants will gain from them, even if often the situations are of win-win nature. Victor Manta OK. You win. It's not capitalism. It's free enterprise! :^) Bob If it's free, I'll have 2 truck-loads please! David. |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:58:35 +0100, "David F."
wrote: snip Dealers buy low, sell as high as they can -- that's capitalism! ... snip Bob Ingraham Capitalism is rather about the liberty of individuals to engage in non-compulsive relationships. There is no implied warranty that any of participants will gain from them, even if often the situations are of win-win nature. Victor Manta OK. You win. It's not capitalism. It's free enterprise! :^) Bob If it's free, I'll have 2 truck-loads please! David. David: Well. it's free - but like eBay there's a minimum of $3.95 shipping and handling. }B*P Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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