Help Me I Am A Bulk Buying Junkee !!

what can I do? given the choice of buying one decent item for 15 dollars or 300 dollars worth of duplication that I will NEVER get rid of ..guess which one I bid on ????????

I feel your pain philb. I walked out of Covermania earlier this year with 9 banker boxes of covers. If you rearrange the boxes just right, it looks like furniture.

Also Guilty-- I know which ones I want but I would rather buy a mixed lot containg it than the one individual. Plus it always seems that those solo stamps cost so much more than when grouped in a smorgasbord. Besides when our heirs get to go through all this mess they can figure out why so many of this and that and call us all friggin nuts.

Battlestamps can you please arrange a pic so I can prove to my wife that all the totes will eventually make sense and save on home decor.

Battlestamps I hardly ever miss a covermania..it will not be the same without John...who was the lucky person you got the 9 boxes from...at my club its almost impossible to sell a cover ..no one seems to collect them !!

I've never thought of that for mine! Can you put a sheet of plywood over them and a table cloth and call it a table?

philb, I'm in the same boat. I do buy individual stamps from time to time, but I don't get much of a thrill when they arrive - even when I've obtained a high CV stamp at a bargain price. After all, I know what I'm getting. When I buy a large lot, I experience the heady thrill of the possibility that virtually anything could be in that lot.

That said, I have bought too many disastrous lots to go on doing this. I generally try hard to find something worthwhile in every lot I buy, something I can sell to recoup the cost of the lot. I have often been able to do this but sometimes it can be a very serious challenge.

I'm starting to think that it's best to buy only from sellers from whom I've bought before and been satisfied. Although the content of the lot is therefore more predictable, it greatly reduces the risks of receiving total rubbish.

For the uninitiated, what is 'Covermania'?

Ok..fair question...Covermania is a show in Albany, New York thats held once a year in February....cover dealers only...a couple of large rooms of them...lately I noticed its mostly larger dealers..i used to enjoy the smaller dealers but perhaps its become too costly for them or the table space is purchased by the larger dealers !!

Philby, slap any cheap Austria Empire my way!




Puzzler, been there, done that

Focus on the follwing iimage for 3 minutes,
stare at the centre of the picture.

Your eyelids are becoming heavy,
breathe deeply
your eyes are heavy you want to sleep,
close your eyes,
all you see are stamps,
they make you feel ill, you can taste the gum
and it's horrible,
you can feel the irritating perforations and the gaudy pictures,
you feel if you see another one you will begin to vomit.
Your eyes are lighter now,
you awake when I snap my fingers
"Snap!"



Send $50 to
The Great Rudolpho
PO Box 1234
Manor Heights 6315
western Austrlia

Hi philb

There is only one cure for being a bulk buying junkie, enjoy it and buy when ever possible.

Regards
Horamakhet

So funny this thread, it's early morning and i'm laughing my head out. I'm more of a target style collector. When it's possible I like to buy a collection to start a topic or a country. I like mnh stamps and they don't come in kiloware. Although the study of cancel is interesting I prefer a stamp without it to see all the details on the stamps. But I never say never about kiloware. Could decide to collect one country completely used one day or have both the mnh and the used collection.

Rod's picture is my dream find.

Well I could probably produce a similar mound !! There are many Great Rudolfos out there...signed Don Carlos !

rod222 said:




Oh, I almost got hypnotized & was about to send $50!

Cheers

I have been struggling with the stamp lust myself. It is as if I could never have enough stamps.