What's The Catch?

I'm sure that others have experienced this but, you know, newbies have to ask about these things. A few weeks ago I purchased Mystic's Heirloom album with which I am quite pleased. Today I receive an offer from Mystic to join the "Heritage Collection of U.S. Revenues." Included were seven Wine Revenue stamps that they claim are worth over $200 based on 2008 Scott's, and that appears to be just the case. If I sign up I get the stamps for $25, plus a "free" album and mounts and, of course, they will continue to send future offerings. You'd think that at my age I'd be a little more savvy about these things, but I nevertheless have to ask: what's the catch?

Cheers...

Rem

Tons & tons of more approvals, club stamps and you name it. Well the prices will be at dealer mark up prices too.

I don't mind the stuff coming since the majority has post paid return envelops. I love the albums but honestly only buy some better graded stamps from them every so often.

the catch is that the first time you forget to return the approvals on time you will own some overpriced stamps that you don't really want. That being said. I know people that have taken the intro offer, returned a few approvals, and then had themselves removed from the approval list.

Richard

Enough said. In the words of Bartleby the Scrivener, "I prefer not to."

Thanks...

Rem

My Dad was into Mystic Stamps stuff.
He got envelopes full of stamps several
times a month. Most of them were billed
at or above catalog value. Some were 2x
catalog value! Now that I have gotten
into stamps myself since he passed, I have
found that you can get almost anything in
Scott's catalog for half or less of the
listed value. So that means that Mystic is
actually selling some items for 4x what you
can get them for elsewhere with a little
looking. I wish Dad had gotten a computer
and went onto ebay... His collection would
have been triple it's size for the money he
spent with Mystic, Kenmore, etc...

They have some nice 'frilly' albums and such.
You just really pay for it all.

After Dad died, it took 6-7 months to get the
shipments of stamps to stop...

That is true about Mystic, BUT sometimes on the back of Linn's Mystic will feature a special and sometimes it's a decent price for MNH stamps---sometimes.

I have to admit that lately any of the packets they have sent me required me to pay the return postage--that's when I notified them I didn't want any more.

Gussyboy1