tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post1768981209767576330..comments2024-03-28T00:16:02.931-07:00Comments on Canadian Philately - The Stamps and Postal History of Canada 1851 to Present by Brixton Chrome: Is There Even Any Room In The Hobby For Professional Stamp Dealers Anymore?Canada's Stamp Dealerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14048248796843456571noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post-22425889928624279772021-05-22T13:41:43.410-07:002021-05-22T13:41:43.410-07:00I feel so happy writing this review about Wizard C...I feel so happy writing this review about Wizard Charles. You can as well hire him today!<br /><br />My Credit Score was on the poor side and I couldn’t get a house, a car or even a truck for my new business. I Couldn’t get approved for any type of loan until I read a comment about a private programmer online on how he helped some people fix their credit score in the space of three days. I gave it a try and reached out to him and to my greatest surprise he came through. He increased My Credit score and he also topped up my Credit Balance to $280,000 USD. He did it perfectly well and removed all The negative items I had on my credit Score, Email: (info@wizardcharlesgrouphackers.com) WhatsApp: +971 55 274 0754<br /><br />Removing Bad Records from Both Public and Private Databases<br /><br />FOR RECOVERY OF STOLEN BITCOIN / CRYPTOCURRENCY , RECOVERY OF LOST FUNDS FROM SCAMMER.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post-73497066889522382022018-05-15T16:28:50.055-07:002018-05-15T16:28:50.055-07:00Hi Barry. Thanks very much for your detailed messa...Hi Barry. Thanks very much for your detailed message. I appreciate you very much for taking the time to write to me in this much detail. <br /><br />I believe that if you did business we me, you would find that I am exceptionally well organized and detailed. My pricing is higher than many dealers, but I usually take offers, so that my pricing over the long run tends to be pretty comparable to everyone else on the whole.<br /><br />I am one of the few dealers who takes consignments, so I try to get fair prices for my customers.<br /><br />Its not really so much that my business is doing badly. It is actually doing well. My problem is E-bay. I spent three years trying to build a successful business there and as soon as I started to do well, E-bay clipped my wings and deliberately stunted my sales growth. I know that sounds nuts, but given enough time I can explain exactly how I know that to be true.<br /><br />So, you are right to avoid E-bay, and to be honest, I am glad to hear from at least one collector who doesn't think it is the be-all and end-all of stamps. <br /><br />What prompted this post was some negative stuff I saw on Facebook, some very bad realizations that I had on Weeda's bidboard and the difficulty I am having transitioning to my own website to E-bay when I have no employees to help me, and no money to hire them. <br /><br />Your words are encouraging to me because they basically tell me that I am on the right track. Though I would appreciate your feedback on my website: www.brixtonchrome.com. <br /><br />Thanks again Barry!<br /><br />Chris Canada's Stamp Dealerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14048248796843456571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post-9978839052002030502018-05-15T16:12:56.918-07:002018-05-15T16:12:56.918-07:00Part 2...
Now for the dealers that I rarely spend...Part 2...<br /><br />Now for the dealers that I rarely spend money with. These I will avoid identifying but rather list the characteristics that have caused me to not spend a lot of time or money with them. <br /><br />Dealer 1 is a part-time dealer who is a regular at the stamp shows. He's very friendly, but he has a couple of problems. First off, his inventory is disorganized and secondly, he rarely adds new material to his inventory. Walking up to his booth and asking what he has that is new is an exercise in futility. I've asked to view his inventory in a country that I collect, only to realize that I spent 95% of my time looking through the same inventory that he had a few years ago (the last time I bothered looking through his stock). Finally, his prices are rather high. The odd time I have bought something from him, I had to scramble to find some cash since he doesn't accept credit cards, which my favorite dealers all do. So while this dealer is very friendly, I feel it's a waste of my time to check through his stock. <br /><br />Dealer 2 sold me a rather expensive stamp as NH when it was really a NG. I would recognize that now, but when I bought this, I had been back into collecting for only a short period of time as an adult. I thought perhaps it was like a Davac gum that is difficult to detect. This wasn't a mistake--he simply took advantage of me. I avoid dealing with him now even through he is still very active in my local market. (Incidentally, I know that dealers make mistakes--I've seen errors from most of the dealers I buy from and they are always good about fixing it, even if I bring back an item at the next show).<br /><br />There are also some part-time dealers that I never bother with at shows. Nothing wrong with them, except that they don't have what I'm looking for, or are so disorganized that I'm not going to waste my limited time at a show digging through their stock. <br /><br />I buy occasionally from other dealers as well. I love going to BNAPS shows and the big international shows. I also buy from a number of firms at Stampauctionnetwork.com. I also get quite a bit of material from Weeda's and FvH's bidboards (although I don't find as much as FvH's board as I used to). I sometimes buy on E-bay or Hipstamps, usually as a result of a direct search for particular keywords. There is a lot of fraud happening on E-bay these days (there are some forums that are regularly listing the fraud listings) so I avoid anything that might be faked, unless it's from a handful of dealers that I trust completely or has a certificate from an organization that I trust. Sadly E-bay doesn't even take the most serious of frauds seriously, so I have little trust in the organization. Hipstamps doesn't have sufficient hierarchy and search capabilities for me to effectively use the site. Anytime a search results in 1000's of hits means the search capabilities really aren't that useful. <br /><br />So there you have it from a serious collector of why I give some dealers lots of business, give other dealers and auctions houses a bit of business, and completely avoid other ones. <br />Barry Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13695303722932026963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post-78268326649380840782018-05-15T16:10:35.741-07:002018-05-15T16:10:35.741-07:00I'm sorry that things are difficult for your b...I'm sorry that things are difficult for your business these days. I can't really do much to offer you solutions, but let me offer you some perspective from the point of a view of a collector who is actively adding to his collection, and the type of dealers that I like working with and the ones that I avoid. <br /><br />The first dealer that is one of my favorites is F.v.H. Stamps of Vancouver, one of the last full time stamp dealers in the Vancouver area. FvH has two niches in the stamp world--running a bid board and selling stamp supplies at a good price. Frank has effectively become the Subway Stamps of Canada, and I buy 95% of my supplements and supplies from him. I also bid fairly regularly on his bidboards, although not as much as I used to since my collection has matured and I just don't need a lot of that material anymore. <br /><br />The second dealer that gets a lot of my collecting dollars is Les Garvey out of Edmonton. Les is full time but primarily a show dealer these days having shut down the downtown shop that he and his dad ran for years. Les is very friendly, he engages with new collectors and specialists alike. When I first started buying stamps from Les, I would probably have a budget of about $100/show. It's a lot more know most of the time, and Les still gets my business. He always has some new stock when he comes to a show and it's fairly priced. Most items are about 50% of catalog (Unitrade or Scott as apporpriate) although some of the higher quality items (VF NH classic stamps) may be marked up to 70% of cat. Les has a no hassles return policy, which has led to me buying more stamps from him that I might otherwise. I've sometimes hesitated looking at some stamps, trying to recall if I might already have them, or if that is the shade variety that I needed--Les would simply tell me that if it's a duplicate, he'll be happy to take it back for credit at the next show. There are often shows where I'll just head straight to Les' booth and spend my entire budget there.<br /><br />The third dealer on my favorite's list is Deveney Stamps of Penticton, BC. I first met up with Dave when I was looking for some additional material for an exhibit of the scroll issue, and Dave introduced me to the idea of adding precancels for that issue to my collection. Dave and Kayle are both personable and enjoying discussing collecting and dealing with their customers. I since got into collecting revenue stamps, which is one of their specialties, so I've given them a fair bit of business the last few years. They only come to shows in Vancouver about twice a year, but they have developed a substantial on-line presence, both with their own website as well as E-bay and Hipstamps for the less expensive stamps. It's easy to see what's new in their inventory, so I don't waste a lot of time digging through the same material over and over again. <br /><br />(continued in part 2....)Barry Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13695303722932026963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post-60797433798918088182018-05-13T11:54:20.936-07:002018-05-13T11:54:20.936-07:00Very thought provoking.
Will some time to digest ...Very thought provoking.<br /> Will some time to digest what one doesn't want to listen to. Dealers, hi end collectors ,newbies and the general collector who is happy with his small hobby!<br /> Jasbir Singhhttps://www.facebook.com/philatelythekingofhobbies/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post-9794051826721705362018-05-13T02:53:52.335-07:002018-05-13T02:53:52.335-07:00Thanks Glendon. I would like to know what you foun...Thanks Glendon. I would like to know what you found most interesting about it.Canada's Stamp Dealerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14048248796843456571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430416027058547451.post-5145474072152540752018-05-13T02:41:31.262-07:002018-05-13T02:41:31.262-07:00Superb article, really interesting Superb article, really interesting Glendon Martinezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886973844037693588noreply@blogger.com