Most All My Collection Must Go...........

Hello all you must have noticed that I haven't been on much lately,dealing with what life has dealt me is all.I really miss being able to log on at anytime of the day that I wanted to,not able to do that anymore.So with that said,onto what I'm thinking of doing,as alot of you know most of my stamps I inherited and are of no interest to what I want to collect,and in order to buy the stamps I want I need to sell what is not needed in my collection,I found it to hard to sell a little bit here little bit there,I'd like to just sell it as one lump,and I just don't know how to go about doing this,no clue on to ask how much,im just so confused any suggestions would be of great help to me

first of all I am very sorry to hear that you are going through

if you are looking to sell stamps separate them by country and used and mint and then list it here or sell it on ebay. if you need help with values get a scott or stanley gibbons and of course me and the rest of the gang are here to help you with any questions that you have

thanks spock most of what you suggested is already been done I have the scottts on cd its just I have waaaaaaay to many to look up it would take me forever and I dont have that much time I just want to come up with a figure and sell all of my unwanted stamps at once if thats possible

Hi Tina, I've missed your posts here.

Sorry to hear that you need to sell most of your collection.
I know you have too many stamps to price them all, so that makes it difficult. Not everybody is interested in whole world collections, so selling them off by the country might be the best thing. Maybe auction each country here in SCF. Put all the stamps of one country in one big pile, take a photo or two and post it in the auction section. Try one and see how it goes.

I hope you are going to keep the cartoon stamps, because I just bought some more for you.

Best wishes, my friend

Steve

ohhhh Trigger I miss you also,and you betcha im keeping my cartoon stamps and my strange faces album and my Hitler and flowers and imperfs and ect im NOT giving up collecting I just want to have some money to get the ones that interest me and most of what I have do not yes I will try your suggestion see how it goes kinda early here to be making all kinds of noise so in a little while ill take some pictures of lets try Australia first hows that sound?

Sounds good,

I'm off to bed now, then work tomorrow.
I'll check back in tomorrow evening and see how it's going.

Steve

As a matter of fact; I was just thinking of you today and wondering how you were and where you've been... Glad to have you back; Hope we can be helpful.

Craig

awww thanks craig its good to be able to get at least a little bit more time than recently I miss most of you and yes you know me ill ask questions

I'm affraid I've blown my budget for a little while but I'll see if I can hoard some more and rid you of a bunch.

Dianne

Tina:

No need to stress yourself... stamp collectors often acquire more than they need, take out what they need, modify their collecting interests, and sell off the "stuff" they do not, nor no longer need. Its the way the hobby works.

You're doing well to focus on certain areas that appeal to you, and selling off what you do not need to get the things you do need.

Congratulations... you're a full-blown stamp collector.

Isn't it great?

Cheers!

David

wow thats great I was wondering when id finally fit that "stamp collector" title.Now I can go crazy and be like the rest of you all

Speak for your self girl I was crazy before I started to collect stamps
I'm just getting crazier

stay in touch

Tina, started to read your post and said darn thought you might quit collecting. I have been setting aside a nice pile of flower theme stamps for you. Then kept reading and good for you, collect what you want the most. The pile is still growing so will email you very soon.

Know how you feel Tina. I've just recently cracked open again a collection I inherited and I'm currently deciding which stamps I want to keep in the long term as I narrow my interest from everything worldwide to a pre-1960 British Commonwealth/Canada collection. I'd go...country by country either by auction or a set price.

OH NO NO NO I have stamps that I will never part from no matter what there worth

like this one

and this one and I have some others but no not giving up collecting heck didn't I just start about 11 months ago I havent even begun to get the ones I want to get yet can't get rid of me that easily

Oh lol, I know. I didn't mean that. I just meant the stamps you don't want. For instance, just going through my collection now...there's definitely some I want to part with. I'm just not interested in collecting most modern stamps (i.e. anything past 1960). I just need to decide what to do with said stamps now (whether it should be donation/sell/trade etc).