Do You Trust In Stanley Gibbons ???

You have sent all of what I have stamps and envelopes and cards, with one of my friends, to Stanley Gibbons, after arranging an appointment with them, and to evaluate, stamps and make an offer.
Upon arrival my friend, and in less than 5 minutes, suggested that he is selling stamps through their own auction, which will be in the month of John.
My friend said that he wants to sell to them directly and not from the auction, and they offer 1700 pounds.
I spent more than 60 thousand pounds over the years, and is offer 1700 pounds!
It is stolen in broad daylight...

Without seeing the items in question, how can any of us comment? It's very easy to over-spend on stamps. ebay has many, many examples.

If Gibbons suggested sending the material to auction, why not do so? Usually, auctions will achieve better prices than selling direct to a dealer.

I do not go up for auction because I am very ill and may not live to that time

If you bought all the material through Stanley Gibbons (from their stock, not auctions), then I would expect a higher offer.

If I spent 60,000 with them through the years, I would expect them to repurchase at 15,000, or so (assuming I had not bought into speculative issues that have since crashed, and further assuming I had bought nice pieces with my money).

I might be unrealistic, but that would seem fair to me. If I had purchased the items elsewhere, then all bets are off.

It is not just SG. If it is not premium material, or they don't particularly need it to fill a hole in their current stocks, the purchase price will be low, low, low.

As far as fairness goes, their first answer was a completely fair answer. If a person does not accept the fair answer, and presses them for a second answer, the second answer does not reflect on the dealer.

My 2d.

Your only remedy is to shop around for offers. You say that time is of the essence, so welling idividual items on ebay is probably not an alternative.

Your Swiss is horrible ,condition is very important and none of the stamps are identified where are the certificates .

I admit I don't have the expertise, but it looks like an impressive collection to me. I hope you can try a different auction house and get a better price.

Stanley Gibbons is in it to make money. It's not a matter of trust. It's a matter of economics. They are not forcing you to sell your collection. You went to them. They made an offer..... you have a choice, except, refuse or make a counter offer. Don't take it personally. To them it's a business. To us it's a hobby and a passion. Sometimes these things don't mesh well.
Good luck whatever you decide.

You can sell your stamps by lots on ebay or other Internet auction. It can be as quick as waiting to find a whole sale. If you cannot do it yourself, you can find some you trust to do it for a commission You get much more than what you quote as SG offer (somer stamps need expertise anyway).

It seems you did not understand my intention, I continued via e-mail with them, and sent them pictures, where they asked me to send it to the valuation, and they told me that it requires a few days, and when he arrived at my friend there, did not take the meeting, more than 10 minutes, and then have suggested that the sales by auction, after 6 months, and it was agreed that the valuation is for sale directly.
Contact me and my friend asked me to speak to that person, and I told him that the agreement be selling directly and not auctions, he said to me in this case we will buy in the form of Lot, and show the amount of 1700.

It is not valued, stamp and have not watched all the albums, and did not look at the envelopes.

Anybody who 'invests' in stamps is in for a rude awakening when it is time to sell, especially selling quickly. Collect for fun.

I can only express my opinion on the GB stamps so I have had a quick look at your GB stamps and what is missing is quality, I'm afraid. Just looking at the Penny Blacks, for example, shows possibly only 2 stamps with 4 margins and the rest are not of any quality judging by that scan anyway. The damaged or two margin Penny Blacks are just space-fillers and worth little.

Same, what was your intention contacting Stanley Gibbons? Did you want a professional evaluation of your collection? Or did you want to offer your collection to them for sale?
Two very different things.
Did they charge you a fee for there time? If they did not then I don't see what the problem is.

You feel your collection is worth more then was offered. OK.
I'm sure it is. If they are telling you 1700 is what they will pay you then most likely they know they can make money reselling it. So yes it is worth more.

That does not make them bad evaluators or not trustworthy. It makes them business men!

They told me that the valuation of stamps will take several days, and after that presentation will be to buy, but he only proposed the sale of the stamps in the auction, and when I told him to submit an offer to buy, he told me in 1700, and when I told him that I spent a fortune to buy these stamps, he told me that 1700 is to buy stamps such as Lot, and not the price of each stamp.