Where Did You Get The Most Stamps From Last Year?

Don

Clicked, but just to say that I buy my stamps at auction, but not in person. Perhaps add a couple of words to your category.

Regards.

Geoff

Fixed, thanks

I went to two stamps shows this year and went a little wild in my purchases.

ISWSC swap circuits provided me my fix.

My preferred choice is not available in the poll:

Purchased from a non-local dealer.

During the last year, most of the items I added to my acumination were from online auction sites. All the Trial Color proofs I added this year were from one ebay seller's "store".

I usually buy online at auction via Stamp Auction Network. This seems a little different from ebay and stamps2go. I prefer to buy from the larger auction houses, but cannot get there in person, so I use Stamp Auction Network.

My "local post office" is actually a standing order that I have with the Philatelic Service of the Canada Post.

Largest number of items: ebay head and shoulders above anything else.
Highest quality and/or costliest items: major auctions, retail dealers at shows.

I voted for he last category, buying at on-line auctions but this is the first time for many years that this has outstripped my purchases at stamp dealers. The result was skewed by a lovely 3-album collection of many hundreds of Armenia provisional overprints.

I currently purchase most of my items through online auctions like ebay.

20 or so years ago it was through snail-mail order dealers, usually from ads in philatelic publications.

For the past 20 years all purchases have been with the major public stamp auction firms . I make it a point to visit them and to get to know their staff in the back office and the lot describers. This makes handling any problems easier and they know me better .

I have casted my vote. However, in my personal experience, a great deal of my stamps were also purchased from my local stamp club.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I had to ponder a little bit before I realized the number of stamps I purchased from the usps

" ebay head and shoulders above anything else....." When I've perused ebay for my specific specialties, I've generally found stuff that is way overpriced or damaged being passed off as OK. ebay to me is really a "buyer beware" type of scenario. My major purchases in the past year were from auction houses, bidding on their web sites, or from Dr. Bob Friedman. I've also used the APS Stamp Store; Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library auctions; and several trusted non-online dealers, through regular USPS mail.