Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
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Doesn't each listing have a unquite listing number.
Write down what listing numbers you are interested in, then make up your mind what lot(s) you are interested etc. and more etc.!
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I don't think that this is a stupid suggestion, when I used to buy stamps from the approval section I fell victim to that practice too.
Learn my lesson well, now I do review the whole book before making a decision to buy or not.
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I start at the end of the approval book and work my way to the beginning to avoid doing that. Doesn't work for every seller though.
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I would take a quick look through the entire book before I purchased anything. No surprises that way.
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01:31:27pm
"now I do review the whole book before making a decision to buy or not"
Great suggestion, if I could only remember to do it!!! Sometimes when I see a stamp I want I am too quick to jump in case someone beats me to it. More patience needed I guess!!
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"in case someone beats me to it. "
Yuupp!
That phrase appears to sum up what is almost standard practice in the Approvals.
Yet It never applies to Buy It Now in the Auctions.
Why?
I can put up a couple of books in the Approvals and get an immediate response.
I can put up 200 lots in the Auctions and responses are way way longer! (If at all)
Aren't Human Beings Weird!!
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"I start at the end of the approval book and work my way to the beginning to avoid doing that. Doesn't work for every seller though.
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I do the same, as the sets are usually more expensive and most sellers start with the lower cost items and put the more expensive ones at the end.
Usually Approval books choice material sells in minutes. I swear there are buyers here who monitor Approvals 24/7. If you take the time to peruse the whole book before buying, you will lose many items by the time you return to them. Given the low item cost of most Approval items, I suggest you grab it first, then if you made a mistake, sell it later in your own Approval book. It is a club, and all should be encouraged to trade..ie buy and sell!
When I was selling on Approval, I always indicated that sets were at the end, to avoid confusing the buyers. Seems it is something seller could do at no cost to them.
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This does not only apply to sets. Many times I have the same stamp more than once in a book. The used one may be a common stamp for 15 cents and appear on one of the first few pages of an approval book. The mint version of the same stamp may have a higher catalog value - so if it is selling for 40 cents it would appear towards the end of the approval book. Sometimes I may make a note about it in the approval book that there is a mint copy later in the book. I have had some buyers would asked me if they could give back the used version because they wanted the mint one instead. I have dropped the stamps from the invoice for them - if it is just a low value stamp and it is one or two - but I would not want to do that for too many stamps. The fact you can not have the stamps appear together on the same page because of the different sell price - is a common issue. In the old fashioned approval books sent in the mail the same stamps were next to each other with the different price noted beneath each one.
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06 May 2025
10:10:57am
I was looking through a book this morning and noticed something. The seller had individual stamps from several series at the beginning of the book and full series later. If I had an interest in some of these stamps what I might have done was bought some of the individual stamps early in the book and then cursed myself later when the entire series showed up. I'm not blaming the seller for this but I do have a suggestion. This might not be possible to program but what if each sale from a book had a 10 minute time limit during which we could easily cancel the sale with a couple easy steps. I know we could always contact the seller but it might not be possible for him/her to easily re-post the stamp I want to cancel. If this is a stupid suggestion or too hard to program please ignore this post!!
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Doesn't each listing have a unquite listing number.
Write down what listing numbers you are interested in, then make up your mind what lot(s) you are interested etc. and more etc.!
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I don't think that this is a stupid suggestion, when I used to buy stamps from the approval section I fell victim to that practice too.
Learn my lesson well, now I do review the whole book before making a decision to buy or not.
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I start at the end of the approval book and work my way to the beginning to avoid doing that. Doesn't work for every seller though.
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06 May 2025
01:31:27pm
re: Just a minor auction or approval suggestion
"now I do review the whole book before making a decision to buy or not"
Great suggestion, if I could only remember to do it!!! Sometimes when I see a stamp I want I am too quick to jump in case someone beats me to it. More patience needed I guess!!
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re: Just a minor auction or approval suggestion
"in case someone beats me to it. "
Yuupp!
That phrase appears to sum up what is almost standard practice in the Approvals.
Yet It never applies to Buy It Now in the Auctions.
Why?
I can put up a couple of books in the Approvals and get an immediate response.
I can put up 200 lots in the Auctions and responses are way way longer! (If at all)
Aren't Human Beings Weird!!
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"I start at the end of the approval book and work my way to the beginning to avoid doing that. Doesn't work for every seller though.
"
I do the same, as the sets are usually more expensive and most sellers start with the lower cost items and put the more expensive ones at the end.
Usually Approval books choice material sells in minutes. I swear there are buyers here who monitor Approvals 24/7. If you take the time to peruse the whole book before buying, you will lose many items by the time you return to them. Given the low item cost of most Approval items, I suggest you grab it first, then if you made a mistake, sell it later in your own Approval book. It is a club, and all should be encouraged to trade..ie buy and sell!
When I was selling on Approval, I always indicated that sets were at the end, to avoid confusing the buyers. Seems it is something seller could do at no cost to them.
rrr...
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re: Just a minor auction or approval suggestion
This does not only apply to sets. Many times I have the same stamp more than once in a book. The used one may be a common stamp for 15 cents and appear on one of the first few pages of an approval book. The mint version of the same stamp may have a higher catalog value - so if it is selling for 40 cents it would appear towards the end of the approval book. Sometimes I may make a note about it in the approval book that there is a mint copy later in the book. I have had some buyers would asked me if they could give back the used version because they wanted the mint one instead. I have dropped the stamps from the invoice for them - if it is just a low value stamp and it is one or two - but I would not want to do that for too many stamps. The fact you can not have the stamps appear together on the same page because of the different sell price - is a common issue. In the old fashioned approval books sent in the mail the same stamps were next to each other with the different price noted beneath each one.
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