Burning Stamp Collection - Proper?

A friend has admitted that in disgust with offers to buy
from so-called reputable dealers, he has now started to
burn his huge collection.

He says that the offers to buy were so insulting,
he feels that by burning his collection, at least
he will be denying the crooks the chance to make
money from him.

Apparently his children have no interest in stamp
collecting, since they are busy with new families.

Like my friend, I also am disgusted with the larger
dealers, and have found no worthwhile charities to
which I would bequeath my collections.


Is burning the only sensible solution?

Comments from all, invited.

This situation is already very common among many seniors groups.

Time for someone, somehow, to figure a way for seniors to get a fair deal,
rather than having them ripped off by crooked big dealers.

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:00:22 -0000, Anonymous , in wrote:

A friend has admitted that in disgust with offers to buy
from so-called reputable dealers, he has now started to
burn his huge collection.

He says that the offers to buy were so insulting,
he feels that by burning his collection, at least
he will be denying the crooks the chance to make
money from him.

Apparently his children have no interest in stamp
collecting, since they are busy with new families.

Like my friend, I also am disgusted with the larger
dealers, and have found no worthwhile charities to
which I would bequeath my collections.


Is burning the only sensible solution?

Comments from all, invited.

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On Oct 6, 8:00 pm, Anonymous wrote:
A friend has admitted that in disgust with offers to buy
from so-called reputable dealers, he has now started to
burn his huge collection.

He says that the offers to buy were so insulting,
he feels that by burning his collection, at least
he will be denying the crooks the chance to make
money from him.

Apparently his children have no interest in stamp
collecting, since they are busy with new families.

Like my friend, I also am disgusted with the larger
dealers, and have found no worthwhile charities to
which I would bequeath my collections.

Is burning the only sensible solution?

Comments from all, invited.

too much idle time, too suicidal and too much faith in newsgroup
discussion. give the collection to stray cats and dogs and go outside
more.

Give the collection to a charity, get a receipt for it and get an income tax
deduction. The charity will know what to do with it.

Tony

"TL" wrote in message
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On Oct 6, 8:00 pm, Anonymous wrote:
A friend has admitted that in disgust with offers to buy
from so-called reputable dealers, he has now started to
burn his huge collection.

He says that the offers to buy were so insulting,
he feels that by burning his collection, at least
he will be denying the crooks the chance to make
money from him.

Apparently his children have no interest in stamp
collecting, since they are busy with new families.

Like my friend, I also am disgusted with the larger
dealers, and have found no worthwhile charities to
which I would bequeath my collections.

Is burning the only sensible solution?

Comments from all, invited.

too much idle time, too suicidal and too much faith in newsgroup
discussion. give the collection to stray cats and dogs and go outside
more.




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Who says they're getting ripped off? If the collection is
all common stuff that everybody already has, all they will
get is lowball offers. If the collection has a lot of fakes
and damaged material, the price drops even more.

I used to dabble at being a dealer (until I found out it was
too much like work and gave it up). When I would look at a
collection, I would always try to find the stamps worth $100
and up. They, and they alone, really determine the value of
the collection. I can recall once looking at a 40 volume
collection without a single good stamp in it. In cases like
that the buy price is about $100 per volume.

On the other hand, if the collection is clean, neatly mounted,
with complete sets and better values, dealers will fall all
over themselves trying to buy it.

And notice that I haven't said anything about the dealer having
to feed his family and pay the rent.

Everyone who is approaching senior citizenry or is already
there (like me), should ask themselves - What kind of collection
do I have? If you have a lot of damaged and fake material
then I would say burn those stamps and keep the rest.

Jay Carrigan change domain to mchsi
www.jaypex.com


In article ,
says...

This situation is already very common among many seniors groups.

Time for someone, somehow, to figure a way for seniors to get a fair deal,
rather than having them ripped off by crooked big dealers.

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:00:22 -0000, Anonymous , in wrote:

A friend has admitted that in disgust with offers to buy
from so-called reputable dealers, he has now started to
burn his huge collection.

He says that the offers to buy were so insulting,
he feels that by burning his collection, at least
he will be denying the crooks the chance to make
money from him.

Apparently his children have no interest in stamp
collecting, since they are busy with new families.

Like my friend, I also am disgusted with the larger
dealers, and have found no worthwhile charities to
which I would bequeath my collections.


Is burning the only sensible solution?

Comments from all, invited.

The problem is there are very few collectors in the market under the age of
700 years old, ( or perhaps it just seems that way )

Most of whom will have the majority of material anyway. The fact that
dealers have already disappered in their droves is adequate proof that the
sale of such material is becoming harder.

In order to maintain a collections value, their must be a demand, and the
only way to do thsi is to bring new and younger blood in.

I think it is up to the Clubs ( and hopefully post office ) to go into the
schools and encourage stamp clubs, perhaps the adult local clubs can
arrange for " Dads & Lads" visit and talk to some more experienced
collectors on the whys, hows and wherefores of teh hobby.

Perhaps the main meeting could start say 30 mins later, giving time for the
novices to have participation without being over awed by the grumpy old
boys, who just want to display page after page of collection. ( which quite
frankly is rarely of any interest to anyone but themselves and similarly
grumpy old boys ) A novice is only interested in numbers, how to mount
them, etc etc

Why not get your club to enquire of any local schools have clubs - if so
arrange for a tie up. Perhaps even accumulate all your club members
unwanted stamps and donate them to the beginners - this is the only way
your collection is to be sold for any worth in the future


With regard to your friend trying to dispose of his collection, why not try
ebay, or one of the major stamp auctions. If you let me know where he
lives I can may be able to give you contact detail sof a local one

Regards

David

"Anonymous" wrote in message
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A friend has admitted that in disgust with offers to buy
from so-called reputable dealers, he has now started to
burn his huge collection.

He says that the offers to buy were so insulting,
he feels that by burning his collection, at least
he will be denying the crooks the chance to make
money from him.

Apparently his children have no interest in stamp
collecting, since they are busy with new families.

Like my friend, I also am disgusted with the larger
dealers, and have found no worthwhile charities to
which I would bequeath my collections.


Is burning the only sensible solution?

Comments from all, invited.

About 40 years ago I collected only Indian Feudatory States (originally
inherited) and the Sudan Camel Postman. I belonged to the local RA Stamp
Club attended regularly by quite a few collectors and dealers. At that
point I became interested in the Portuguese Ceres and asked one of the
dealers -- the local top dog at the time -- how to go about buying an
already set-up collection. He gave me this advice: Before you even see the
collection, set its value at zero; then look at the collection and find
reasons for adding to the zero. He was also wont to say that the condition
of a stamp depends mainly on whether you are buying or selling. Enough to
give one a rather jaundiced view of stamp dealers.

I am 63 years old. Over the next 5 years I intend to gradually give away
all my collections except for a couple of them which I will always treasure
for sentimental reasons. Maybe I will scan all the stamps before I give
them away and for the rest of my days enjoy them through databased virtual
collections which can be deleted with a single click. I would rather do
that than take my collections to a dealer who will undoubtedly, before even
opening an album, tell me how my collections probably contain only common
stuff, fakes and damaged material. I'm sure that sick kids at the
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario would love to play with little
pictures.
--
Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada
http://tv-stamps.shorturl.com

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 10:51:41 +0800, "rodney"
wrote:


Eh?

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:00:22 -0000, Anonymous
wrote:

A friend has admitted that in disgust with offers to buy
from so-called reputable dealers, he has now started to
burn his huge collection.

He says that the offers to buy were so insulting,
he feels that by burning his collection, at least
he will be denying the crooks the chance to make
money from him.

Apparently his children have no interest in stamp
collecting, since they are busy with new families.

Like my friend, I also am disgusted with the larger
dealers, and have found no worthwhile charities to
which I would bequeath my collections.


Is burning the only sensible solution?

Comments from all, invited.

This is a troll in the disguise of the so-called "friend". Do not
take it seriously.