Free Downloads Top Dollar Paid!: The Complete Guide To Selling Your Stamps
Wondering how to get the highest price for your stamp collection? Best selling Top Dollar Paid! - The Complete Guide to Selling Your Stamps takes the mystery out of it and helps ensure maximum profit. It's a concise factual guide and an entertaining, revealing, behind-the-scenes narrative about the real-life world of stamp dealing written by veteran dealer, Stephen R. Datz, whose decades of experience include arranging for the sale of President Gerald R. Ford's collection-and making sure he got top dollar for it. Critically acclaimed, Top Dollar Paid! is an absolute must for anyone who buys, collects, invests, or is in the market to sell. Newly revised and updated.
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: General Trade Corporation; 2nd edition (April 15, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0882190229
ISBN-13: 978-0882190228
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #334,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #29 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Antiques & Collectibles > Stamps #256 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Antiques & Collectibles > Antiques Care & Reference > Reference #394 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Reference
I recently inherited my father in law's stamp collection. My wife wants to sell it, to raise some much-needed money. I bought a current Scott catalogue and determined that one of the U.S. plate block albums is "worth" $350. My wife was told by a stamp dealer that he will only pay about 10% of catalogue value. That would make the album worth $35.I read Top Dollar Paid. It says that only certain stamps are good investments. Those are the stamps that were already rare and highly priced collectibles when they were first purchased.In other words, if you go into a stamp dealer and buy a 3 cent stamp for $500 because it is rare, that is exactly the kind of stamp that is a great investment. It is the type of stamp you can leave to your children or grandchildren, and its value will rise as the years and decades go by.But if, when your father or grandfather was a child in the 1930s or 1940s, or (God forbid) in the 1950s or 60s, he went into the post office and bought mint stamps, plate blocks, or sheets, and had a beautiful and complete collection, all of those old and pretty stamps are worthless. If all you want is the cash for them, use them for postage. They aren't worth a damn thing. If you bought a hot dog in 1963 you wouldn't expect to sell it for $50 today would you?There are interesting anecdotes in this book. There's the Hungarian boy who hoped to sell Hungarian stamps in the U.S. at a profit. (No way!) There's the author's meeting with Gerald Ford and his stamp collection. There are stories of stamp collection owners who try all the tricks that you yourself would have thought to try, and just where those tricks got them.I'm glad I read the book. Now I think I'll just add some of my father in law's stamps to my own collection.
Top Dollar Paid!: The Complete Guide to Selling Your Stamps Selling on eBay: 7 Steps to Selling $5,000 Per Month on eBay in Less Than 25 Hours a Week (selling on ebay, how to sell on ebay, ebay selling, ebay business, ebay, ebay marketing,) FBA Secrets: The 25 Best FBA Secrets Revealed: Best Selling Secrets Revealed: The FBA Selling Guide ( fba, selling on ... sell on , fulfillment by , fba) The Complete Guide to Stamps & Stamp Collecting: The ultimate illustrated reference to over 3000 of the world's best stamps, and a professional guide ... and perfecting a spectacular collection Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It The Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps 2013, 35th Edition (Official Blackbook Price Guide to U.S. Postage Stamps) Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide (Warmans U.S. Stamps Field Guide) Million Dollar Ebay Business From Home - A Step By Step Guide: Million Dollar Ebay Business From Home - A Step By Step Guide 2016 Rare Stamp Experts Official Training Guide, includes full color on-line scrolling catalogue of all US Stamps From 1847 to 1900 and Great Britain Stamps From 1840 to 1910: Secret Buying Stategies Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide: Values and Identification (Warman's Field Guides U.S. Stamps: Values & Identification) Scott 1998 Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps: Confederate States, Canal Zone, Danish West Indies Guam, Hawaii, United Nations : United ... Catalogue of United States Stamps) LEARN IN A DAY! DATA WAREHOUSING. Top Links and Resources for Learning Data Warehousing ONLINE and OFFLINE: Use these FREE and PAID resources to Learn Data Warehousing in little to no time BOOKS:ALL SIN IS PAID FOR:Spiritual:Religious:Inspirational:Prayer:Free:Bible:Christian:Top:100:NY:New:York:Times:On:Best:Sellers:List:In:Non:Fiction:2015:Sale:Releases:Original:Verses TOP PLACES IN THE WORLD TO PLAN YOUR VACATION / HONEYMOON / RETIREMENT: Bonus Chapters Included: TOP 5 Places To Take Photos and Top 5 Places for "City ... vacation packages, vacation photos Book 1) Gold, Silver and Rare Coins: A Complete Guide To Finding Buying Selling Investing: Plus...Coin Collecting A-Z: Gold, Silver and Rare Coins Are Top Sellers on eBay, and Etsy Ebay Selling Mastery: How to make $5,000 per month Selling Stuff on Ebay How To: Make Money Selling Ties On eBay: How To Make Money on eBay Selling Neck Ties eBay 2014: Why You're Not Selling Anything on eBay, and What You Can Do About It (EBay Selling Made Easy) Lessons Learned...: From A Corporate Guy Who Left His Job To Sell On Full Time (Selling on , FBA, Making Money Online, Work From Home, ... Home Based Business, Selling On eBay, eBay) Selling on eBay: How I Made $2,000 A Month With No Inventory: Learn How to Get Money Fast and Earn an Extra $24,000 a Year Selling on eBay and Spend No Money Upfront on Inventory
