A Whole New World On Delcampe

I have only been actively buying stamps for a few months. I am focused on the stamps from Yugoslavia and the republics that were part of Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia), which follow my coin collecting interests.

I have found a treasure trove of items on delCampe, going through the categories for each of the above states. But recently, I have discovered a whole new level of listings that I hadn't previously known about. Instead of going through the actual category listings (Stamps -> Europe -> Yugoslavia), I have found that if I just go into the parent (Stamps ->) category, and do a search for Yugoslavia, there are literally hundreds of listings in other categories that I would never have thought to search (i.e. Stamps -> Topicals -> Europa/Cept, or Stamps -> Topicals -> Red Cross, etc). And then, to find even more items in all these "topical" sub-categories, I have begun to search using variations of the spelling, such as the French version "Yougoslavie" or the German version "Jugoslawien", along with other known spellings. There is so much more out there! Unfortunately, all this new territory for me to explore has had an unexpected side effect on me. It seems that I may have found myself almost more interested in the auxiliary postal products, such as FDCs, maximum cards, postal cards, etc. So, for each stamp, I want to get the stamp, the FDC, the maxi-card, and the mini-sheetlets that go with them. oh, the madness! I think I may need to get a second job to finance all this treasure hunting I have found.

I too shop at Delcampe and yes there are a great array of stamps there and yes I do like shopping there too,but for one little problem for me and that is translating the French into English that's why I missed some of the key problems with the U.S.#242 I've just brought some sales have some English but a lot only French,lets face it half the time I can't remember how to spell in English so I'm even more hopeless when it comes to French.

I just signed up on the Delcampe site. I hope it does me well.

There are some websites that will translate whole pages for free. Just add the http address and presto chango into the desired language. It works to a functional degree. I use online translators to help communicate with some of my Delcampe buyers who don't speak English.
Will

http://webtranslation.paralink.com/ This one helps quite a bit, but as far as I can tell doesn't translate web sites. It does provide keyboards for characters not found in English thus also handy to translate that Russian, Swedish, German, etc. text you find on a stamp, postmark, letter, etc.

Web translation systems are a great tool - as long as you remember their limitations. This site http://tashian.com/multibabel/ allows you to translate text into another language, and then see the results, usually hilarious, when you translate the same text back into English. Hours of innocent fun, and a valuable lesson in relying too heavily on Web translations.