Selling Postage Stamps

Lfctony

Anybody know the best way to get cash for unused postage stamps?

I have been doing surveys for years now and they reward you in Royal Mail postag3 stamps.
Only just realised how many I have, and there is a lot.

Thanks in advance

Emmia

Lfctony said:

Anybody know the best way to get cash for unused postage stamps?

I have been doing surveys for years now and they reward you in Royal Mail postag3 stamps.
Only just realised how many I have, and there is a lot.

Thanks in advance

Are they the (discontinued) old style non-coded ones? Or the new ones with the codes?

flaneurs_lobster

You can swap old non-barcoded stamps for new barcoded stamps - but you will still just have a lot of stamps albeit valid for postage.

How many/how much value are you holding?

MikeyPGT

https://www.philatelink.co.uk/buying--stamps-prices-4-w.asp buys stamps - you won't get full Royal Mail prices but it's an easy way to cash them in ...

olgadapolga

I recently sold a lot on eBay for about 80% of the face value. I'd had the stamps since 2013, swapped them for the barcoded ones and sold them within 24 hours of listing them. Didn't lose any money and got some money back in the bank.

savergrant

olgadapolga said:

I recently sold a lot on eBay for about 80% of the face value. I'd had the stamps since 2013, swapped them for the barcoded ones and sold them within 24 hours of listing them. Didn't lose any money and got some money back in the bank.

Personally I wouldn't buy or sell stamps on ebay as too many risks.

emmbrook

savergrant said:

olgadapolga said:

I recently sold a lot on eBay for about 80% of the face value. I'd had the stamps since 2013, swapped them for the barcoded ones and sold them within 24 hours of listing them. Didn't lose any money and got some money back in the bank.

Personally I wouldn't buy or sell stamps on ebay as too many risks.

You can buy safely so long as you are careful in your seller. Check reviews, see what else they sell. If it's solely whole unused sheets or booklets of stamps steer clear. Those obviously dealing in stamps for collectors are far safer. 

That said ebay seems to have cleared out a lot of the sellers of fakes, and the one time I was sent fakes I returned as SNAD and was refunded.

I buy and sell many stamps on ebay and have had hardly any issues in many years of doing so.