Unitrade - Breaking Up Sheets For More Value..??

Hi guys...Was looking at my Scott #585a mini pane when I noticed some thing strange as to cost in the Unitrade catalogue..Correct me if I am reading the information wrong.

1 - Break up sheet for individual stamps............$32.00
2 - Sell as a whole mini sheet...........................$35.00
3 - Break up into 3 blocks and one plate block...$36.50

IF I AM MISSING SOMETHING..PLEASE EXPLAIN.

HERE IS THE MINI SHEET


HERE IS THE UNITRADE VALUES

Wert, I think you forgot something. If an 85 cent stamp costs a dollar, what would a 15 cent stamp cost?

Peter

It must be taking into account the added labour cost involved of separating the miniature pane into four parts. LOL

Good one jogil...haha

Petert4522...What...???..

$1.50 difference. It's one of those, nobody noticed it until you did wert. Are you an accountant by chance?

The mini sheet total price could be increased by $1.50, or the PB lowered by $1.50, or some combination there-of. As mentioned, there is the labour to break up the sheet. $1.50 sound fair?

3Dadeo...Wish I was one..would do a better job on my income tax...

This reminds me of the minimum price that Scott catalogues used to have for penny stamps in their catalogs at more than a penny due to the labour costs involved which were also factored in.

Pricing makes perfectly good sense to me. An intact mini worth more than the sum of its parts.

An intact miniature pane (of 16 unseparated intact stamps together in total) should be worth more such as a premium than the sum of its separate parts (separate plate block of 4 stamps plus 3 separate blocks of 4 stamps).

CanadaStamp...It dosent make sense to me..Maybe I am way out in left field on this one, but if I am reading this pricing in Unitrade, it would be worth more money to me to break it up into 3 blocks and 1 plate block...Now I never sell stamps, I collect them...But if I was a seller, wouldn't it make sense to break up every mini sheet I got my hands on.

Where are you Robin...??
I need your help on this one.

Somebody agree with me, or set me straight..

In the long run, if everyone did this, there would be no more mini sheets and the price would go up.

wert, I agree and so does jogil. There is a $1.50 increase in total catalog value if the sheet is broken up. However, there could be some labour consideration, or it may just be a slight error.

If it bothers you, I'm Robin will have an answer. Perhaps just a slight change in the next edition. I rarely take notice of these as selling stamps will rarely get you anything like CV.

Of course the pricing in the catalog is theoretical (though supposedly based on empirical evidence). What these different items would actually sell for depends on a lot of factors including demand.

Its possible this contributors to this thread have put more thought into the question than the catalog editors did and the difference in pricing is merely a rounding error, (e.g., perhaps they don't worry whether these items tally up and just look at empirical evidence from sales?).

If this was US I would have less confidence in the block prices than those for the mini-sheet or singles.

Minesweeper...BINGO..You caught on to what I was referring to..If all the sellers out there did this to get there fill of money, then just average collectors like me would find it harder and harder to find/purchase these mini panes..That would be a sad thing..

Wert. when I mentioned the 85 cent stamp that costs a dollar I was making fun of Canada Post's new sales policy and comparing it to your miniature sheet!
I do believe this must be a Unitrade oversight. I am myself a proofreader for a catalog, and you would not believe how difficult it is to go over numbers for hours at end! Sometimes you can see something like what you found in the catalog ten times without ever noticing the problem!
Come to think of it, if you would let the editor know he'd probably appreciate it!

Peter

Hi everybody

This is a great academic exercise, but in reality you can't get anywhere near the catalogue value if you try to sell the mini sheet or blocks or inscription blocks or singles. These things are like belly buttons in that everybody who wants one has one. Club auctions barely return face value.

GJP