Kenneth Wills
STAMP TRADING PRINCIPLES
1 My collecting interests are in postally used British Commonwealth
countries. At a lower interest level, I also collect postally used world-wide
stamps.
2 I can offer a wide variety of used British Commonwealth and world-wide.
I am willing to provide printed copies of my duplicate lists by country
in Scott number order. I can also offer a wide variety of mint stamps, but
these, although sorted by country, are not yet catalogued.
3 I am willing to part with any of my duplicates for cash at 50%
of Scott catalogue value or to exchange them as described below. I will
replace any which are not in satisfactory condition, and expect my trading
partners to do the same.
4 Because my collection and duplicates are catalogued in a computer
database (apart from a huge backlog waiting for a few spare months!), I
prefer to exchange stamps with other collectors who can send me lists of
their duplicates. We then request stamps from each others' lists, and work
out a running balance by catalogue value, eventually equalizing the debits
and credits.
5 Some of my trading partners work on this basis with me, but because
they do not have lists of their duplicates, they send me batches of stamps
from which I can make my selection and return the rest. However, I am not
willing to send my used stamps out like this because it interferes with
my inventory records.
6 If you prefer, I will give you three times the catalogue
value in stamps of my choice (none of them junk, and all cataloguing more
than 20¢) in exchange for any of your stamps I keep.
7 On the other hand, you can select stamps you want from my lists,
and pay for them with twice the value in stamps of your choice, again provided
they are not junk and all catalogue more than 15¢ (20¢ in the
Scott 2001). Junk, in my view, is anything that most collectors don't like
to receive. This includes many used recent definitives of major countries
which are overvalued by Scott, such as the Germany 3DM.
8 If you have surplus large quantities of the same stamp,
so do I! To even out the overages and shortages, I find it useful to trade
batches of 10 of a kind by any of the above methods. Take a look at my list
of what I can offer in batches of 10.
Now check my lists of duplicates available
for trading.
Back to my home page for information on how to
get in touch with me.