Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
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a profit of 7c plus the return of joy
If I buy them from you, i intend to make an extra penny.
scenes from "The Pawnbroker"
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Yeah, so many stamps I won't be able to get face value for. It's a shame. At least with my coin collection, even if I go broke collecting, I will still have money!
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"At least with my coin collection, even if I go broke collecting, I will still have money!"
For that reason, I wish I collected US coins but sadly, if I have to live off my coin collection, I'd have to go back to Victorian Britain or Roman times.
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Thank goodness i never looked at my hobby as a cash cow...i had a couple of barbers at different times who collected coins and they would buy them in their shop...they would tell me how they were going to put a grandchild through college with their coin collections..they looked astonished when they asked me what my stamp collection was worth and i said it had no monetary value !
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"they looked astonished when they asked me what my stamp collection was worth and i said it had no monetary value !"
If all the stamps are used then they have no value for postage, but I'd rather have a used set of Zeppelins than 30 used Morgan silver dollars. The used Zeppelins have zero value as postage, but well over $500 in market value. The Morgans have a face value of $30 and a current junk silver value of around $500.
Don't forget, that $3 million 1c Z grill is a USED stamp!
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Wait.. You actually SELL stamps? I while away the hours in pure sorting bliss and most stay in their glassines without ever making it to an album..then I get another collection to sort...and another...and another... Selling a stamp. I am way too much of a hoarder for that. Don't worry Phil, if ya stop selling them then you won't feel like it may not be a good return on time 
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I have to tell my wife i found someone who has me beat..i have so much to catalog and mount in albums and always sniffing for more stock books of stamps. On another subject..oh boy, my stocks are at an all time high...but the dollars in my pants pocket are worth less !!!
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cocollectibles: I will gladly exchange any coins of either Galba or Otho you may have for some nice new US coins. Let's see how much is a Denarius worth currently.... Ted.
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Galba and Otho? What about Vitellius, the third of the "three Emperors in one year"? Sorry, Ted, I don't have those and I suspect they are quite hard to find in any condition, given the fleeting reigns. I have Vespasian, Titus, Constantine, and one yet to be identified but I think it may be late Roman Empire. I didn't say I had a lot, as coins are not my "thing" as stamps are, but I couldn't resist the Roman deals I got.
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sometimes i wonder what else i might be doing when i catalog stamps i MAY sell for 10 cents into 102 cards i spend 3 cents apiece on. At least i have a choice on how i while away my time !
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a profit of 7c plus the return of joy
If I buy them from you, i intend to make an extra penny.
scenes from "The Pawnbroker"
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Yeah, so many stamps I won't be able to get face value for. It's a shame. At least with my coin collection, even if I go broke collecting, I will still have money!
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08:35:48am
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"At least with my coin collection, even if I go broke collecting, I will still have money!"
For that reason, I wish I collected US coins but sadly, if I have to live off my coin collection, I'd have to go back to Victorian Britain or Roman times.
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re: Trivial pursuits
Thank goodness i never looked at my hobby as a cash cow...i had a couple of barbers at different times who collected coins and they would buy them in their shop...they would tell me how they were going to put a grandchild through college with their coin collections..they looked astonished when they asked me what my stamp collection was worth and i said it had no monetary value !
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"they looked astonished when they asked me what my stamp collection was worth and i said it had no monetary value !"
If all the stamps are used then they have no value for postage, but I'd rather have a used set of Zeppelins than 30 used Morgan silver dollars. The used Zeppelins have zero value as postage, but well over $500 in market value. The Morgans have a face value of $30 and a current junk silver value of around $500.
Don't forget, that $3 million 1c Z grill is a USED stamp!
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08:59:30am
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Wait.. You actually SELL stamps? I while away the hours in pure sorting bliss and most stay in their glassines without ever making it to an album..then I get another collection to sort...and another...and another... Selling a stamp. I am way too much of a hoarder for that. Don't worry Phil, if ya stop selling them then you won't feel like it may not be a good return on time
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re: Trivial pursuits
I have to tell my wife i found someone who has me beat..i have so much to catalog and mount in albums and always sniffing for more stock books of stamps. On another subject..oh boy, my stocks are at an all time high...but the dollars in my pants pocket are worth less !!!
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02:32:53pm
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cocollectibles: I will gladly exchange any coins of either Galba or Otho you may have for some nice new US coins. Let's see how much is a Denarius worth currently.... Ted.
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09:27:36am
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Galba and Otho? What about Vitellius, the third of the "three Emperors in one year"? Sorry, Ted, I don't have those and I suspect they are quite hard to find in any condition, given the fleeting reigns. I have Vespasian, Titus, Constantine, and one yet to be identified but I think it may be late Roman Empire. I didn't say I had a lot, as coins are not my "thing" as stamps are, but I couldn't resist the Roman deals I got.
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