Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
This just seems a bit pricey to me but I know there are other factors involved. My inclination is to thank him for the reply and move on. Any thoughts?
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in SOR auctions, and I find this true for eBay, too, most GB material except for the truly rare, barely commands 20%, and often much less.
I have found Germany commands higher percentages here and eBay.
that's been my experience, anyway.
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I was buying for over a decade from Bellmore and they shut down recently. I was paying 40% of Scoot for mint or used and 8% for defective stamps. The 75% might not be too out of line for mint NH German material but I still think I can do better.
As you say, he has to cover his losses from non paying customers.
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"My inclination is to thank him for the reply and move on."
If you don't like the price, don't buy.
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" .....50% for used- ........ Germany and British ...."
I can understand what appears a bit pricey, however, if his material is consistently really nice lightly cancelled (Not favor cancelled, although it is often hard to tell.) postally used. To find such yourself you have to look past a lot of not so good examples, so the seller would be doing that work for you. Also consider that some stamps are readily available in a wide range of condition (eg: UK X-mas stamps), but others seem only to have been used at post offices with automatic smudging cancellers attached to refurbished wheat harvesters.
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I was buying approvals from a guy in New York for a while, and the pricing was similar to snick1945 prices. On normal stamps these were a bit high, but if you were a specialist in an area they weren't that bad. The prices were based on Scott, but Scott doesn't list the items that are found in a specialized catalog (In my case, the Edifil catlog). So making finds like a scarce cancel, plate variety, color or shade, not listed in Scott, was very possible. I made many purchases like this.
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Been in touch with an advertiser re his approval service. He says he asks 75% of Scott for mint and 50% for used- 65% for LH. I was asking about Germany and British but he seems to have that pricing across the board.
This just seems a bit pricey to me but I know there are other factors involved. My inclination is to thank him for the reply and move on. Any thoughts?
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re: Pricing on Approvals- a Question
in SOR auctions, and I find this true for eBay, too, most GB material except for the truly rare, barely commands 20%, and often much less.
I have found Germany commands higher percentages here and eBay.
that's been my experience, anyway.
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I was buying for over a decade from Bellmore and they shut down recently. I was paying 40% of Scoot for mint or used and 8% for defective stamps. The 75% might not be too out of line for mint NH German material but I still think I can do better.
As you say, he has to cover his losses from non paying customers.
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"My inclination is to thank him for the reply and move on."
If you don't like the price, don't buy.
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27 Nov 2015
02:44:13am
re: Pricing on Approvals- a Question
" .....50% for used- ........ Germany and British ...."
I can understand what appears a bit pricey, however, if his material is consistently really nice lightly cancelled (Not favor cancelled, although it is often hard to tell.) postally used. To find such yourself you have to look past a lot of not so good examples, so the seller would be doing that work for you. Also consider that some stamps are readily available in a wide range of condition (eg: UK X-mas stamps), but others seem only to have been used at post offices with automatic smudging cancellers attached to refurbished wheat harvesters.
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re: Pricing on Approvals- a Question
I was buying approvals from a guy in New York for a while, and the pricing was similar to snick1945 prices. On normal stamps these were a bit high, but if you were a specialist in an area they weren't that bad. The prices were based on Scott, but Scott doesn't list the items that are found in a specialized catalog (In my case, the Edifil catlog). So making finds like a scarce cancel, plate variety, color or shade, not listed in Scott, was very possible. I made many purchases like this.
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