Best Place To Sell Low-Value Stamps?

Greetings!

When I was first collecting stamps, I purchased collections of stamps on E-Bay, looked through them for stamps I liked, and put the rest aside. I'm thinking of cleaning out my collection. I'd be selling batches of about 100 to a few hundred, with nothing particularly valuable in them. These are likely to appeal to a beginning collector, as they appealed to me.

My first thought is that E-Bay is going to be better than any other selling site because it's where beginning stamp collectors would look, despite the higher fees that E-Bay charges.

Do you agree with that, or is there another site that is likely to get me more money?

Thanks very much for your thoughts!

RobR

Depends on whether you want to try the flea-market route, now winding down in the northern U.S. Packets then become an impulse item that grandpa buys for the grandchildren, or the exhausted father buys the brat something so he'll shut up.

On the other hand, face-to-face dealing eliminates postage, any kind of flim-flam, commissions, disputes, non-delivery, etc., and the buyer has the confidence of knowing exactly what he's buying. If and when you become "known" as a stamp seller at one busy location, then you can put up a sign offering to buy stamps on the first Saturday or some such arrangement. I always had pretty good luck at the flea market.

Personally, I think ebay's overloaded with rubbish, and for myself, I would never list cheap $3 to $5 lots. You're working for $2/hour, and the competition's fierce.

Ask yourself this...what don't you look for? Do you pick for shades, or plate flaws, or postmarks? If not, say so. "Unpicked for..."

Then again, you might ask yourself why you don't. I always intended to get rid of extras, yet I'm rarely convinced that something is truly "extra." I can't tell you how many times I've gone through old glassines of Austria, Canada, or Cape of Good Hope, looking for something new that SCF introduced to me.

My 2d. It is also fine to say "I have one of those, the rest are extraneous."

ebay is a fine place to sell ,first and the most important thing is , that is were the BUYERS are at . Second have you seen the cost of rent lately ,it doesn't matter if its a building or a table at a stamp show .Newspaper or stamp magizines ads are expensive .You need traffic and lookers there is no better place than ebay .
About the cost for ebay ,they are very sensive about what they are chargeing you ,so they hire MBA grads to study the subject and try to keep their prices in line.Today pricing by ebay is a far cry from their start up days of the past so it not important to compare a start-up and growth pricing fees to the mature auction firm it is today .

I am a recent newby to ebay, I regularly buy the cheapies,
lots of fun, ebay has yet to fail me in delivery.
1 niggle was a vendor selling short sets without advice,
but I can live with that.

What I don't care for are cheap stamps for sale 1 at a time
or just a few stamps but overpriced.

If I find a vendor selling reasonable stamps, I may buy several packets
or return to his shop / avatar regularly.
Try not to overprice on your shipping.
A half reasonable scan is a must also, even if an indicative sample
is shown.