From: bhnc_140_@mr2ice.com   
      
   In , on 05/22/2006   
      at 07:46 AM, "Brian Hill"  said:   
      
   >> I recently sold 2 albums I had picked over.  I was very disappointed with   
   >> the priced the fetched.  One album with 3500 stamps through 1949 and   
   >> another with 1900 between 1940 and 1949.   They sold for $32 and 27,   
   >> respectively.  If I would have known they would go so cheap, I would have   
   >> kept them.  Then again, what am I going to do with albums I've already   
   >> reviewed?  Plenty of great material, but nothing left that *I* need!   
      
   >Stamps were never an investment except for people who can afford the stamps   
   > worth investing in. You can however cheaply build a nice collection by   
   >trading and selling excess on Ebay and places like this. Ebay has actually   
   >brought down the value of stamps by making harder to find stamps more   
   >available.   
      
   Sort of an old thread being resurrected, eh?   
      
   I wasn't investing, or looking to make real money, really.  Break even or   
   lose "a little" is more like it.  I purchased a couple of albums, which I do   
   often.  I paid 2-3 cents a stamp for mounted collections of "common"   
   material.  And competition was there for these, as I paid one bid increment   
   above a bunch of other people chasing the same things.  A couple of months   
   later, with some, but not many, stanps removed and placed in my collection,   
   I went to sell the remains of what were remnant albums to start.  However,   
   the folks bidding against me awhile back were apparently absent.  And I got   
   .95-1.5 cents a stamp.  This was my point.   
      
   If I would have preferred to keep them at that price.  Oh well.  I've done a   
   little better as of late.  I will be listing 7 Part 1 remnant albums, and an   
   additional 4-5 Part 2's soon.   
      
   Nick   
      
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