Funny Stamp Collecting B/S

There was once this guy who cornered the market on this stamp only to discover that he was the only one collecting it in the first place so that no one else wanted the stamps that he had.

There was this guy who used to like buying stamp kiloware by weight as long as it didn't have double backed paper. However, whenever he would get stamp kiloware himself from envelopes and parcels to sell by weight, he would make sure that it had double backed paper left on it.

There was once this guy who didn't realize that his buying of a particular stamp made the price go up so that he fell into the trap of having to pay more and more as he bought more and more of the same stamp which motivated him even more to buy more and more by thinking that his stamps were constantly increasing in value. Later, he discovered that when he stopped going after and buying the particular stamp, the price of the stamp went down a great deal so that he lost a lot of money on it.

There was this collector who was in a restaurant having dinner when he overheard someone sitting at another table saying that he saw this great collection at such and such a dealer and that he thought that the stamps were worth much more than the price which he felt was going to go up soon. He also said that he was hoping that the collection didn't sell because he was planning to buy it as soon as possible. The collector overhearing this jumped the gun and got to the dealer as soon as he could and bought the collection the next day when the dealer opened. Interestingly, the collection belonged to the guy who gave the unsolicited tip/advice in the restaurant as it was being consigned with the dealer.

A collector at a stamp show saw a long line up to the post office kiosk and asked someone there what the fuss was all about. He was told that it was this new stamp on stamp souvenir sheet that everyone was going crazy for. He decided to get in line thinking that he should get something too. However, when he got up to the kiosk, he asked the postal employee what was the least popular thing there and he bought it while everyone overhearing him thought he was crazy not to buy what everyone else was buying. To make a long story short, what he bought went up in price and what mostly everyone else bought (the souvenir sheet) there went down in price.

Scenario #3 happened when I started buying lots of Israel.

I strongly smell the work of "Murphy" as in "Murphy's Law", What ever can go wrong will go wrong.

I just figure to amass such a hoard my relatives will scratch their heads and say I don't know a thing about stamps when I pass and be shocked and awed by the grand collection of nothing therein, lol ! Time to go shopping for a gravestone in the shape of a stamp but which issue, type etc, oh Murphy ye are so cruel.

I also heard that # 3 may have happened with U.N. stamps as well.