Amos Advantage Backordered Items

floortrader, They could have created their one at any time without using Steiner. I am sure Scott's concern is that someone will just take the PDFs, copy, and resell lower than what they want to charge as people did years back when they released the catalogs on PDF. Using the PDF format and allowing one to down it, they have no way to control re-distribution without a robust scheme that limits sharing. Streaming channels have similar issues.

I know redistribution happens with Steiner but Steiner does not contain any catalog numbers. Scott does not want to lose control of that.

ANGORE ---- This is what anybody who reads this board never sees . I hand write the Scott Catalog numbers on to my album pages . Yes I would pay a additional $100.00 to have them added to each page . That is what I mean by Steiner 2.0 ,they are a pain in the butt to write each page in 220 binders .

I add Scott numbers (and any other comments) to my album pages using clear, self-adhesive labels printed from my computer.

I edit Steiner pages to add page and catalog numbers before printing for my own personal use using FoxIt PDF reader. On pages printed later than this one. I will merge all pages of a country into one PDF and sort to Scott so I can number pages. I do not see why Bill does not do that and I did ask him but got no response.

Copyright. Scott is very protective of those numbers. I think Amos needs to rethink not printing the specialty series for the whole world. Thousands left on the table for poor management.

Nice to see three different ways , each person does it the way that works for them .

Are you saying the do not have the whole world available by print on demand?

I am sure their proprietary binders and paper does not help for a cost effective supply chain. All likely have large MOQ (minimum order quantities) that is not in significant financially. The setup cost by supplier is probably a significant amount of cost.

Are you saying the do not have the whole world available by print on demand? - Yes, they discontinued some countries. Like Egypt for example. I am unsure why. They could just make it print on demand, There is a good secondary market for used albums where Scott has abandoned ship. You can still get big blue for the World but as we all know, too many blanks.

I assume pages used to be lithographed but are they now digitally printed?

Maybe Amos should visit Palo to see how it's done.

I have a Palo Philippines album from 15 years ago and looks like it is digitally printed. The paper does not feel as smooth as Scott. They may be using a more commercially available paper (white) although they do have the embossing on left side that is custom. The paper also seems to be more sensitive to moisture when you over wet mounts so you can see more paper deformation.

The Palo binder is a 5 ring design but no open assist lifts so not premium. The binder is 12x12 (close) and that size is used by crafting suppliers.

I have not seen a recent print on demand Scott page.

Palo's "how it's done" is to take sub-standard design from Steiner, change the font and charge a fortune. But they do "print on demand". I suspect that Amos should just walk away from the whole world concept. All the others have. Indeed, Gibbons's last all-foreign albums (i.e. non-Commonwealth) were the Ideals, which ended with a "definitive" (i.e., we're done) edition in 1936.

Hahaha. I was expecting that comment about Palo.

Amos isn't interested in other stamp firms , they are not going to tie up money with inventory , they are not interested in printing and selling to retail sellers like dealers at shows , there interest is just to print AFTER they got a buyer .

Go as long as buyers are lined up at the door ,cash out then leave the business .


Look at their policy on STAMP CATALOGS , they want me to buy a set of 8 books where I don't care about half of those years in the books ,yes most of us don't need the past 40 years of stamp issues ,cut it off at 1970 or 1980 for each country ,which would be 3 or 4 books .

Classic's 1840 to 1940 sell well and a GOLDEN AGE series 1941 to 1970 or 1980 would work for most collectors after those dates make a CD without pricing for each stamp but just by set .

The point about Palo was that you can get everything from mounts to approval pages right now. You can't sell what you don't have so if you don't have "better quality" album pages what does it matter.