Browsing And Bidding

i just went through 31 pages? of Netherlands items on ebay and bid on two items...thats enough for one night..tomorrow I will hit Stampwants !!

Ok I comparison shopped Netherlands on ebay and Stampwants..remember I am impartial just looking for the best deal...well theres no mistaking Poppe on Stampwants..hes all the dollar prices for 8 cent stamps....Rubystamps has the exact same items for the exact same prices on both Stampwants and ebay so hes a waste of time..i was a bit surprised that I found better prices on ebay than on stampwants..this is on the Netherlands stamps I was looking for..not a general statement !

have you ever looked at delcampe.com auction site?? based out of Europe (Belgium, I think), started by a stamp collector for stamp collectors.

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actually, you want to look at delcampe.com they have several TLD's, (like ebay has .co.uk, .de, .au, .ca etc.) but the .net site lists everything from all of the TLD's in one place.
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okay, for some reason it will not recognize delcampe(dot)net, and keeps wanting to change my post to delcampe(dot)com. not sure what the problem is, but the site you really want to check is delcampe(dot)net.
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Kuhli I have friends who praise DelCampe...i find it a bit complicated and to keep shipping costs down I try to buy from people in the United States..but I do make exceptions!!

Phil:

I've a guy on StampOffers that sells great United States at a good price.

David

David

I'd be interested in that information. Can you email it to me?
Thanks

Butch

Butch:

E-mail sent!

David

E-mail received...... thank you David.

Butch

Phil you use Wensy and you get better deals on it than Delcampe,
I've checked out Delcampe and prefer to stick to Stampoffers or Wensy
just my thoughts.

Hi Harry, I was just reading Swabbies long post of long ago...when I am looking for a certain item I check both Bidstart and ebay..sometimes the price differences can be immense..of course for fun I like to sell and buy on Wensy and here on SCF !

My singular problem with Delcampe, provided what I desire is worth international shipping costs/times, is settlement. I had a major problem attempting to set up payment via moneybookers so if I am there shopping, I look for someone that will also accept Paypal.

I am interested!

The stamp auction arena for me is public and postal auctions in Australia and it works very well for me. I know the workings of 11 of these auctions by there descriptions only but get a very good feel for what the lot is and what the bid should be!

A lot of the talk, on auctions is about ebay type auction places.

How popular are public and postal auctions outside Australia? I wonder! KGV

I wish there were auctions and such around me.. I live near two major US cities and nothing, nada, zip..
Baltimore and Washington DC

btw..phil I will be dumping my Netherlands stuff soon, want some scans. or are you looking for something special?

Hi SV....Netherlands..i dropped the ball for a while...i do need some from the mid to late 90's ...its complicated !!

Has anyone bought on Stamps2go.com & care to report on the experience?