Sad Death-Spiral Of Stanley Gibbons / Bidstart

I don't understand why it is bad to sell inexpensive stamps singly. My first collection was used stamps. I still have it, and add to it stamps I soak off my mail. It serves to remind me of what I got into collecting for. I only started visiting bidstart last week, and although it is time-consuming to search through thousands of individual stamps, I like the fact that I can buy a single old stamp for only a few cents. I am putting together a packet of stamps for a beginning collector's Christmas gift (I have just under 2000 stamps, hope to have 2500 when I'm done). I bought 30 used stamps from a bidstart seller for 5¢ to 10¢ each for the packet. The packets that I have purchased in the past all had stamps from the 1930's through the 1960's in them, and very little from the 1970's through present. So I have been hunting for cheap stamps from the modern era to add to my packet. It appears that bidstart may fill that need.

I'm wondering if the problem some have with Stanley Gibbons selling penny stamps is that for decades they have been associated with high end material.

I also wonder if it would not have been a better choice to keep both ends of the market separate.

SG Marketplace is an SG-owned ebay or Delcampe or bidStart. It is not SG who is selling penny stamps. SG Marketplace has hundreds of sellers who have their own stores with the same names they had on bidStart and with the same material, as far as I can see. SG Marketplace is bidStart, renamed merged with Stanley Gibbons own online store. In the SG store at SG Marketplace you'll find lots priced at $600,000.00. Those who were dismissive of bidStart before will be dismissive of SG Marketplace. Those who had contempt for Stanley Gibbons before, will have plenty to turn up noses at now.

What's not to like? Plenty of opportunities to feel superior. Life is wunnerful, ain't it?

Why don't you guys complaining about lots of $.17 cent stamps just use the little slider and set the minimum value to more than $1?