Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Gail333

Graceglow said:

NBLondon said:

Gail333 said:

The stamps though, I don't have a clue what to do with them as I never need to send letters or parcels and I have a ridiculous amount now 🤣🤣

I got rid of my excess Large 1st by selling them to this dealer:  https://www.philatelink.co.uk/buying--stamps-prices-4-w.asp  (scroll down halfway to see the price list)    Better than just leaving them in a drawer if you will never use them.

I sell the reward stamps on eBay. After factoring in the fees, my last batch sold for about 55% of the face value. There is always demand for them.

I actually thought about doing that a few months ago but I saw a post on the community boards regarding selling stamps that said you had to be licensed to sell them.

Graceglow

Gail333 said:

Graceglow said:

NBLondon said:

Gail333 said:

The stamps though, I don't have a clue what to do with them as I never need to send letters or parcels and I have a ridiculous amount now 🤣🤣

I got rid of my excess Large 1st by selling them to this dealer:  https://www.philatelink.co.uk/buying--stamps-prices-4-w.asp  (scroll down halfway to see the price list)    Better than just leaving them in a drawer if you will never use them.

I sell the reward stamps on eBay. After factoring in the fees, my last batch sold for about 55% of the face value. There is always demand for them.

I actually thought about doing that a few months ago but I saw a post on the community boards regarding selling stamps that said you had to be licensed to sell them.

I wasn’t aware of that, thanks for the info.  I haven’t had any problems so far 🤞There’s always lots of stamps & presentation packs on the site. 

eBay’s stamp policy

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/stamps-policy?id=5043

elsien

I’ve sold mine on Facebook marketplace, cash only, a few times, but the last time there wasn’t much interest. I did have a request to post down south, but they only wanted to pay by PayPal and I just felt it was too open to abuse with no way of judging how sensible/real the  buyer was. 

XDA

Gail333 said:

NBLondon said:

Gail333 said:

The stamps though, I don't have a clue what to do with them as I never need to send letters or parcels and I have a ridiculous amount now 🤣🤣

I got rid of my excess Large 1st by selling them to this dealer:  https://www.philatelink.co.uk/buying--stamps-prices-4-w.asp  (scroll down halfway to see the price list)    Better than just leaving them in a drawer if you will never use them.

Thank you for this! I will have a look! I had no idea that there was somewhere online that buys stamps. I had considered Facebook marketplace but then it occurred to me that I would have to give an explanation to a potential buyer why I have so many as I would not want them to think that they were either fake or stolen as no "normal" person would have so many stamps but then I would be revealing my identity so I dismissed that idea.

I tried selling mine on Facebook Marketplace but I had people commenting that they must be fake/counterfeit because I was selling them slightly cheaper than the RRP price.

I removed them after that because I obviously couldn’t go into the specific's as to why I’ve got so many stamps to sell at a cheap price.

silvercar

I have managed to use/ gift/ sell my standard first class stamps, it is the large letter ones that I am stuck with. 

podmonster

I have lots of spare stamps too (I originally started on the panel not for stamps but because of local issues and a suspicion our post was going astray) but every so often donate to a local cat rescue who still post out an old style newsletter to it's members and the large stamps are also useful for the annual cat calendar they sell.

NBLondon

Graceglow said:

Gail333 said:

Graceglow said:

NBLondon said:

Gail333 said:

The stamps though, I don't have a clue what to do with them as I never need to send letters or parcels and I have a ridiculous amount now 🤣🤣

I got rid of my excess Large 1st by selling them to this dealer:  https://www.philatelink.co.uk/buying--stamps-prices-4-w.asp  (scroll down halfway to see the price list)    Better than just leaving them in a drawer if you will never use them.

I sell the reward stamps on eBay. After factoring in the fees, my last batch sold for about 55% of the face value. There is always demand for them.

I actually thought about doing that a few months ago but I saw a post on the community boards regarding selling stamps that said you had to be licensed to sell them.

I wasn’t aware of that, thanks for the info.  I haven’t had any problems so far 🤞There’s always lots of stamps & presentation packs on the site. 

eBay’s stamp policy

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/stamps-policy?id=5043

I used to sell the booklets on eBay and usually made 65-70% but the demand dropped in 2023 and it wasn't worth the hassle when I could get 63% from a dealer.

Saetana

silvercar said:

I have managed to use/ gift/ sell my standard first class stamps, it is the large letter ones that I am stuck with. 

I use those on parcels.

ChotaPeg

I use mine to cover the cost of postage on items I sell on ebay / FB marketplace. 
I've still got loads of stamps stashed but as a small parcel costs £3 /£4 to post, it can be a quick way of using up a few stamps and recouping their value as the buyer is paying postage 

Moll

Ive always swapped with friends for what they want . ( Craft stuff / Amazon  vouchers etc  ),  for their surplus stamps as  i use a lot of stamps . and am always running out  .