Scotland Topical Stamps Available

We are having a 2-4-1 sale at www.scotland-stamps.com !!! Buy one item
at the regular price and get the 2nd free. Also, FREE shipping and
handling for orders over $50.00 U.S. Maximum S/H for orders under $50
is $2.00.

We are the exclusive source for the stamps we sell. Visit our site
and view beautiful and colorful automobile, bird, fish, flower and
pony stamps and mini-sheets. All are MNH.

Hurry, sale ends soon and quantities are limited . Thank you for your
interest and we look forward to serving you. Sorry, we do not trade
or exchange stamps at this time.

Scotland-Stamps.com

This NG is only for discussion of stamps - if you want to sell, then
please use rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace.

Thank you!

Dakota

Scotland-Stamps.Com wrote :

We are having a 2-4-1 sale at www.scotland-stamps.com !!! Buy one item
at the regular price and get the 2nd free. Also, FREE shipping and
handling for orders over $50.00 U.S. Maximum S/H for orders under $50
is $2.00.

We are the exclusive source for the stamps we sell. Visit our site
and view beautiful and colorful automobile, bird, fish, flower and
pony stamps and mini-sheets. All are MNH.

Hurry, sale ends soon and quantities are limited . Thank you for your
interest and we look forward to serving you. Sorry, we do not trade
or exchange stamps at this time.

Scotland-Stamps.com



Apart the fact that this guy is forwarding his commercial garbage in the
wrong newsgroup, may be someone with a better knowledge of English than
mine, could explain me the following sentences :

"Sorry, we do not trade"
when he is selling stamps (even if it is a "sale")


"We are the exclusive source for the stamps we sell"
The contrary would be very strange ;-)
(Or the art to say nonsense in flattering the buyer ?)

--
All the best,
Pierre Courtiade

to answer me, please replace NOSPAM by my family name

J. A. Mc. wrote :

In casual 'English', this usage of "trade" is to swap (swop) stamp
for stamp or a ratio of stamps for a more valuable stamp. No 'cash'
in the transaction. As he posted ... "we do not trade or exchange".

In many other uses 'trade' is the action of "doing business"
commercially, as in "Being in trade."



Many thanks for the explanation !

--
All the best,
Pierre Courtiade

to answer me, please replace NOSPAM by my family name

Le Mon, 3 May 2004 02:58:08 +0100, dans rec.collecting.stamps.discuss,
"Pierre Courtiade" a écrit :

Apart the fact that this guy is forwarding his commercial garbage in the
wrong newsgroup, may be someone with a better knowledge of English than
mine, could explain me the following sentences :

"We are the exclusive source for the stamps we sell"
The contrary would be very strange ;-)
(Or the art to say nonsense in flattering the buyer ?)

Maybe they mean that they print their forgeries themselves.

--
DC

I'm sure that his efforts are well rewarded and he lands alot of sales from
his newsgroup posts




I mean why bother. Noone here is going to buy and more than a few are
quite annoyed.




"Didier Cuidet" wrote in message
...
Le Mon, 3 May 2004 02:58:08 +0100, dans rec.collecting.stamps.discuss,
"Pierre Courtiade" a écrit :

Apart the fact that this guy is forwarding his commercial garbage in the
wrong newsgroup, may be someone with a better knowledge of English than
mine, could explain me the following sentences :

"We are the exclusive source for the stamps we sell"
The contrary would be very strange ;-)
(Or the art to say nonsense in flattering the buyer ?)

Maybe they mean that they print their forgeries themselves.

--
DC

"Pierre Courtiade" wrote in message ...
Scotland-Stamps.Com wrote :

We are having a 2-4-1 sale at www.scotland-stamps.com !!! Buy one item
at the regular price and get the 2nd free. Also, FREE shipping and
handling for orders over $50.00 U.S. Maximum S/H for orders under $50
is $2.00.

We are the exclusive source for the stamps we sell. Visit our site
and view beautiful and colorful automobile, bird, fish, flower and
pony stamps and mini-sheets. All are MNH.

Hurry, sale ends soon and quantities are limited . Thank you for your
interest and we look forward to serving you. Sorry, we do not trade
or exchange stamps at this time.

Scotland-Stamps.com



Apart the fact that this guy is forwarding his commercial garbage in the
wrong newsgroup, may be someone with a better knowledge of English than
mine, could explain me the following sentences :

"Sorry, we do not trade"
when he is selling stamps (even if it is a "sale")

To "trade" means both _buy_ and sell (and barter). Why they don't say
"buy or exchange", who knows?

"We are the exclusive source for the stamps we sell"
The contrary would be very strange ;-)

These are "fantasy" labels, so I assume they are saying that they are
the original source of supply (e.g. designers/printers). Strictly,
"exclusive" means that the "stamps" can't be bought anywhere else at
all, e.g. in tourist shops, which I find difficult to believe. See
http://www.stampshows.com/local-post.html for these islands.

(Or the art to say nonsense in flattering the buyer ?)

Yes, just sales hype (nonsense) to get people to pay good money for
non-stamps.

Chris

Thanks Chris for your comments ;-)

Pierre