Modern High Priced Oop Forever Stamps

Have any of you paid 3x face value for a Forever stamp issue?

For example, I like the cartoon character Charlie Brown and thus purchased several Charles Schulz sheets when they were released last fall.

Since I am relatively new to stamp collecting, I was unaware until recently of a Charlie Brown Christmas Forever 20 stamp booklet issued in 2015. That booklet sells for around 3x face value currently.

Obviously from a postage perspective, it makes zero sense to pay 3x face value, but from a collectability perspective, do you think high priced Forever sheets/booklets hold their value fairly well?

It's hard to say what collectible will hold it's value well since it depends upon the whims of collectors and supply and demand. If the booklet is truly regularly trading at three times face there must be demand. Popular subject and limited quantities available. If it is worth it to you and it makes you happy that is what matters.

If you have any stamp shows/bourses local to you, check with several dealers there before grabbing one off of ebay. You may find that they are available "in person" at something less than the online prices. Especially at 3:30pm, when everyone is filtering out and you're still standing there with a crisp $20.

On the other hand, you might find out the opposite.

Only you can decide if it's worth it for you. And no one can tell you if you'll be able to sell it in a year or two for what you paid for it.

"Value is in the eye of the beholder"............famous quote from ???? (OK....I made it up just now)

Well, I am sure SOMEONE said it already..........so maybe I just repeated it.....

Many forever stamps are "on the buy". Look at Henry Gitner's extensive US postage buy list. Many dealers use his prices and requests to gauge the market

Really depends upon when or if PEANUTS will ever go out of syndication. A look to 3507 ($6.40 pane face, not forever) never hit 3x face until the 100th anniversary of birth for Sparky issued 9-30-2022. Until then the continuing strip keeps up the interest in all things Peanuts on this planet and, via NASA, beyond.

I have but one stamp mounted with appropriate expanded image (omage), framed, purchased from a seasonal art market held in a resort area. It is 3507, Snoopy as the WWI Flying Ace. It hangs on the wall behind a desk built into an alcove at the mountain house. While it maybe a reminder of stamp collecting; rather, it is an homage to brothers Henry and Martin, one who returned from being a machine gunner in a Balloon Company, to bring life to my mother and therefore me, and one, who returned from the trenches, to be honored during burial at Arlington. When I would stay with my maternal grandparents, my grandfather was assigned the chore to read me the comics before I could do so myself. At home that was my father's duty. In both cases, a cartoon was a cartoon to me if it had drawn pictures and text and that mean they both read me the editorial cartoons and then need to explain them to me.

I have my stamp, I do not see my interests impacting future value on Forever Peanuts. If I really need a Peanuts fix I hop up to the museum in Santa Rosa. I also pass a tall bronze Snoopy when I head in to buy dog food from the feed store there.

The true value of any item is the price at which a buyer can purchase it from a willing seller.

The true value of something is what the buyer can sell it for right after he buys it.
I just made that up.

I wonder if "forever" really means what it says, or will shadyness by the PO happen when the price to mail a letter reaches $5+. Then we'll have an unexpected "for security reasons" demonetization of forever stamps.

I guess over time the current supply will dry up (except for the chinese knockoffs), then we'll have $5 forever stamps "forever".

Just for fun,
Pat