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Club topic As our esteemed leader has said, many of us have similar stories of how we came to stamp collecting, how we dropped off when family expenses left little room for these little pieces of paper, and how with increased prosperity we took up collecting again. That’s me! But when I discovered eBay I realised that I could turn my GB and Commonwealth stamps into cash so that when I pop my clogs my kids will not just chuck them away or sell them at ridiculously low prices. So I decided to STOP collecting. Unfortunately for me, I had a whole page of Japanese stamps and I was delighted with the designs. So I have disposed of a large part of my original GB collection (Machins – ugh!) and the bug caught me again and I have spent about half my sales money on buying Japanese. But at 2000 Japan started issuing so many stamps that I have not collected many since then, except for New Year issues. This explains the way my eBay feedback shot up to the mid 900’s and is now creeping slowly up to the next star. I keep telling myself I will sell them too, but eBay is now charging sellers so much, along with Paypal fees, that I anticipate I’ll go to an auction house when I decide to get rid of them – this year, next year, something or never. Once bitten by the bug I don’t seem able to stop. Actually, as I cannot bear to dispose of stamps and put all the world into a couple of albums I sometimes come across some nice stamps like the Austria 1973 buildings issue, so if I got rid of my present collections I might well take up Austria or Liechtenstein. A pity so few children today actually see stamps on envelopes, and even when they do, the bug never bites them. Colin, covered with bug bites!
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on Oct-28-07
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on Oct-28-07
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