Selling Donated Stamps in a Charity Shop
TheProph
of stamps and stamp collections as part of the donated goods. We have
a few people sorting these to sell, but there is disagreement over how
they should be presented. Currently we sort them into a variety of
categories, but these have been decided ad-hoc and there is no
systematic approach -- for instance, does an off-paper Australian
stamp with a Kiwi bird on it go in Australasia, Foreign Off-paper, or
Birds?
As such, I was hoping some of you could suggest how you would most
like to see stamps arranged and sold, what categories are conducive to
selling -- would it be better to group by countries or continents;
should we have a Commonwealth box; would thematic stamps have their
own section or be put with their respective countries, and would this
include or exclude events (coronations, Christmas, etc.)?
Another option is to sell unsorted bags -- what weight/price would
seem acceptable to you for this, and what level of regular GB
definitives in them would be too high (we do get a huge number of them
and I wouldn't like to be selling poor bags -- we could pre-sort to
ensure decent value for money). I'm totally clueless about stamp
collecting, so any assistance or advice you could offer would be very
much appreciated.
~Bob