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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2010 at 04:49 | |
Those sheets on sale have taken off price wise with 2 hours still to go. I suspect that someone has put a not-going-to-be-beaten bid in on them.
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Murgatroyd
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2010 at 05:00 | |
Yes... I'm glad to see that someone out there appreciates their true value. All the items that I wanted to bid on tonight have gone over my limits... I have a set of the gum fronted sheets but I was very interested in the St Hilary sheets and the $5 Merchants Guild sport proof.
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Skaven
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2010 at 09:53 | |
TBH I was only looking at the sheets to obtain the Sports, but they went way over what I'd want to pay.
I used to get excited about the arrival of new LBE's but I've had such rotten luck at finding the sports and prizes I'm a little underwhelmed nowadays. Especially when you see the same people getting the prize tickets and sports from each issue time an time again Edited by Skaven - 23 October 2010 at 09:54 |
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Murgatroyd
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 23 October 2010 at 18:13 | |
That's always puzzled me a bit... I guess they buy so many LBE's that they are bound to find a few sports and prizes.
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"I've got twenty minutes to save the world and I've got a Post Office, and it's shut." The Raggedy Doctor.
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Hilary
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 October 2010 at 07:24 | |
Not even St Hilary has a sheet of St Hilary. Perhaps I should be demanding a royalty! |
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With a memory full of ships, and seas, and perilous headlands, and the shining Pharos, he must apply his long sighted eyes to the petty niceties of drawing. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 October 2010 at 07:41 | |
Demanding? That's not very saintly.
Could you demand a royalty from an eBay seller? You could always try bidding, or just be patient until the prices get lower... or design a Pharos St. Hilary
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Steve
Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3481 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 October 2010 at 07:50 | |
I am of divided opinion on this issue of sports Colin. On the one hand I agree that having a sport on each sheet goes against the original intentions. That they were to look like a plate setters error, although we all knew they were an intentional 'error' introduced for a bit of fun and to spice up the hobby. But as an LBE buyer I would hope to get a sport or two out of the small batch I buy. Finding a balance between these two viewpoints may be a case of 'ypu can't please anyone any of the time'. However by increasing the number of sports and limited editions in the envelopes has possibly led to over-expectation by the buyers. A tactic that leads buyers to trade more in order to get the stamps missing from their collections would find favour with me. |
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 October 2010 at 07:52 | |
should I used the P word here? a word of caution St Hilary. I've looked at my sheet and its full of little errors and inconsistencies. There's even one stamp where your halo has slipped! |
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Keith
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 October 2010 at 08:05 | |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 October 2010 at 08:10 | |
I've just been catching up on threads elsewhere on the forum and another member points out that it is always the same people who seem to get the 'goodies' in LBEs. But surely it comes down to statistics and the more LBEs you buy the better your chances of finding something. The people who have the best find rate are often the ones who admit to buying 10 or more LBEs at a time so it is hardly surprising that they find more sports or extras.
The way the Discworld stamps are sold dictates their value. Some issues such as the $5 triangles are more restricted than others to increase their rarity, so if sales flag, presumably the shop alter the mix in the LBEs to revive interest. Has anyone ever found out whether the stamps returned in the GCTS envelopes are destroyed or are they recycled into new LBEs? With such a turnover of LBEs being bought and returned to the shop perhaps there might be fewer stamps in circulation than we thought.
As a stamp collector I would actually like to see some 'used' examples (and I don't mean stamps that have been freshly cancelled) such as stuck to paper, torn off their backing, or a bit blemished or even sticky! Scratch and sniff? Old pipe tobacco? Finger printed.
When I used to buy kiloware my Mum would make me wash my hands whenever I touched my stamp collection because she thought that something licked years earlier by a stranger housed all sorts of potential ills. Yet something from gruesome Ankh-Morpork arrives fresh and spotlessly clean. My Mum would approve but I don't.
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