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I'm trying to clear out stamps that I won't use. The problem is, many of them are intermingled in sets with stamps that I will use. If I break apart the sets and just keep the stamps I want, is there a market for the "orphans"? Will people buy a single word or sentiment or image if it's supposed to be in a set? How would you go about pricing them? Thanks for any/all suggestions or comments!
I'm selling off a LOT of my old wood mounted stamps, a 12+ year collection. I think I had 200 stamp sets when I first began at the beginning of last month, and now I'm down to one hundred! (Check that BST forum!)When I was in your predicament, I decided to stamp off a sheet of an image I thought I might use in the future and put it in a file. I stamped on white and ivory using black ink. I've only had to do this with two stamps. I'm not a person that has ever regretted selling stamp sets that I'm not using. Trust me, if I need it or it becomes popular again, some stamp company will make it even better than the original.
I see lots of sellers on ebay selling SU sets that are broken apart, for whatever reason. Not sure how well they do but they do seem to sell. I personally don't like to sell or purchase them but that's just me. Not sure how you would price them. I guess figure out what you'd sell the set for and then break it down per stamp. Or look and see what other like stamps are going for and price accordingly.
I would think it would be worth a try to sell them individually on our buy/sell forum. I'm sure there are many people who didn't buy a set because they only liked one or two stamps in the set. Perhaps one of your stamps is just the one they liked.
I would determine price of a stamp based on its size, as stamp manufacturers do. They have sizes, A, B, C, etc on up & whatever the code is on the stamp, that determines the price.
You can set up your own pricing system like this by drawing around blocks of serveral different sized stamps, determine a price for each & write it in the box. Then to price a stamp, see which box it fits in & use that price.
Out of curiosity, you could check if prices are reasonable by taking one set & pricing its stamps this way. Then compare that to the original price of the set & what you would ask for it as used & adjust prices if you like.
Can you tell I'm a mathametician? It's extra work to do it this way, but once done, you'll never again have to ponder how to price a stamp.
A stamp vendor priced/sold one of my stamping buddy's stamps for her husband after she passed away. She had hundreds of stamps & this was a very easy, efficient way to price & sell them.
That does sound like the most efficient way to go about pricing them - thanks! I think I like this plan better than trying to do "lots" of several stamps (like a set of random butterflies or a set of Halloween images or what-have-you). I may have to get serious about this soon!
I would think that there would be the same amount of interest in them as any other stamps. I think it is as simple as...if someone likes the stamp, they will buy it.
I see over at Ebay stamp sets broken up and people get in crazy bidding wars over it. There is a market for broken sets. I know some people lose a part of their set due to an accident, or let at a crop so I am betting several people Ebay trying to replace their matching sets. Then some buyers like one stamp from the set and don't want the rest of the collection. SU has a stamp set right now that I just want one stamp from but could care less about the rest of them. If I ever saw that stamp individually I would snag it up.
I have to agree, I'm one of those people who wouldn't buy a set just for one or two stamps if I didn't like the others. I'd be willing to buy the "orphan" stamps if they were ones I could use.
The only thing I can add if I were selling I would feel the need to tell people it is one stamp out of a set named. That way there is no question that it was part of a set and/or the person is not bidding for the set but one stamp. Good luck.
I have to agree, I'm one of those people who wouldn't buy a set just for one or two stamps if I didn't like the others. I'd be willing to buy the "orphan" stamps if they were ones I could use.
Is there a market for this?
