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E:31/12 Win a £5,000 investment portfolio

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Very expensive stamps, don't use them for comping!! :rotfl:

We are giving you the opportunity to take advantage of an alternative investment route that canny investors have been utilising to achieve an average 10% p.a compound growth for the last 100 years. Click here to read our free guide to rare stamp investment.
Simply fill out the form below and submit it to us to have a chance of winning your choice of the following rare stamp investment portfolio worth £5,000.

This portfolio had a 1997 catalogue price of £2,575; in 2007 it was worth £5,075. That's a growth of £2,500 = 97.09%

10 lucky runners up will receive a 15% discount on a Stanley Gibbons Investment Portfolio and 100 others will receive a 10% discount.

Subject to availability. Prizes may differ and be substituted for suitable items to the value of £5,000.

Terms & Conditions of Competition Entry
In Entering this competition you will also receive the Investment Newsletter.

All entries must be received by 31/12/2007. Only one entry will be accepted per person. Multiple entries will deem all entries invalid. Winners will be contacted by email. If we do not receive a response to this email then another lucky entry will be chosen. This competition is not open to employees of Stanley Gibbons Limited (SG) or their families. The draw will take place in January 2008. The first entry drawn will be the prizewinner. The next ten entries drawn will be eligible to receive 15% discount on a portfolio, and the following one hundred will receive 10% discount. The decision of the Chairman of SG is final and no correspondence will be entered into. There are no cash alternatives. Entrants will be deemed to have accepted the Terms and Conditions and be bound by them when entering the competition.

Comments

  • LizB62
    LizB62 Posts: 5,143 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    This one's pretty fussy - it complained about my first name, Liz, being too short, so I had to go with Elizabeth. Never had that happen before!!
    Best win ever: Trip to the Galapagos Islands in 2010
  • bella165
    bella165 Posts: 13,127 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Stoptober Survivor
    no chance if my son wanted to enter then his name is ian lol.i have a collection of stamps including a pennyblack,from my childhood.oh how long ago that was lol
    Replies to posts are always welcome, if they are done in the correct manner. If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you
  • Quillion
    Quillion Posts: 1,768 Forumite
    mine was too short too had to use my naughty name !!!!
    :beer: Officially Debt Free Nov 2012 :beer:
  • My 'Amy' is also too short!! Had to go with the rather more formal 'Amy-Jane' as found on my birth certificate!! LOL, are people not allowed to have names with three letters any more?? :)
    :A
  • slinkycat
    slinkycat Posts: 3,281 Forumite
    lol site is nuts :D
  • ryan85k
    ryan85k Posts: 1,158 Forumite
    bella165 wrote: »
    no chance if my son wanted to enter then his name is ian lol.i have a collection of stamps including a pennyblack,from my childhood.oh how long ago that was lol

    I doubt that you have a pennyblack, if you do then i suggest you deposit it into a bank vault and insure it immediately.
  • -1-
    -1- Posts: 1,289 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ryan85k wrote: »
    I doubt that you have a pennyblack, if you do then i suggest you deposit it into a bank vault and insure it immediately.

    Alot of people have Penny Blacks.

    Some even on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GB-1840-PENNY-BLACK-DH-Used-Stamp_W0QQitemZ280185770708QQihZ018QQcategoryZ3511QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem , it's the ones with no post mark on them that are the expensive ones, others fetch good sale prices but not as much as "un-touched" ones.
    :wave: Smile, you only get one life, LIVE IT.
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