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sakic92710 · ‎03-15-2025

I checked sold listings & see such a huge difference in pricing. As little as $1.99 & as high as $14.75. How can you tell if you have the more valuable booklet? They look exactly the same.

sin-n-dex · ‎03-15-2025

@sakic92710 wrote:
I checked sold listings & see such a huge difference in pricing. As little as $1.99 & as high as $14.75. How can you tell if you have the more valuable booklet? They look exactly the same.

Are these solds? Or items for sale? I've been reminded by my posse that "asking and getting" are not the same thing. If they are simply listed for such a range, then the seller made up a price and their value might be something in between (I tend to assume the value to be on the lower end if I have one to list, and figure the higher end of the spectrum will be up for sale for a very long time).

If these are solds, it would depend how common the item is and who happens to see it. I was looking up some coins I was listing on eBay.ca tonight and saw some as low as $3 and others as high as $8 (in solds). I would assume that if someone saw the $8 one and decided to buy, then $8 was an acceptable price for them. I tend to price somewhere in the middle when I'm not sure (or towards the lower end if I'm trying to sell it quickly).

C.

sakic92710 · ‎03-15-2025

Hello. 🙂 They are sold listings.

US #BK132 $1 Vending Booklet Solid "13c" cover 1590A 1623Bc perf. 10 pane NH MNH | eBay

US 1623a (BK131) Flag Over Capitol-Capitol Dome 13c-9c -Folded Booklet of 8 | eBay

12345jamesstamps · ‎03-15-2025

A lot depends on the condition of the item.

It might not be the stamps valuable but the covering...it might not have been hinged.

There are gum stamps and dry /dull gum stamps...with different catalog values.

Sometimes there is an error inside like offset color of a stamp or 2 stamps missing perforations.

'$14.74' is not considered a high price...seller probably doesn't want to off-load it.

Catalog value...what is item really worth...probably about 25% of catalog value.

Check those in the category of stamps sellers...highest from lowest...and you will see sellers(usually with 0 feedback) selling something for $25,000.+ and it's only worth one cent...LOL

12345jamesstamps · ‎03-15-2025

One man's garbage is another man's treasure.

This is an off-set stamp where it hard to say what it's worth.

Some sellers will just put a price on something...

simba6 · ‎03-15-2025

Like you needed the 9 cent one.

sakic92710 · ‎03-15-2025

Thanks for trying but nothing you said helps out with an answer. lol I don't mean that as wanting to be insulting. They are sealed booklets, so I have no idea what the info on the stamps could be. I saw another listing that went for $6.99. It makes zero sense. 1 thing that annoys me about guides. If the guide says an item is worth $40 & it is only selling for $16, how is it worth $40 if NO ONE is buying it at that price?! 😛 🤣 The market says it is worth $16. Throw the guide in the garbage. I gave up on guides regarding sports cards.

mcw1627jed · ‎03-15-2025

Different gauge perforation of stamps.(Part where they tear apart).Can be hard to tell without a perforation stamp gauge.

sin-n-dex · ‎03-15-2025

@sakic92710 wrote:
Hello. 🙂 They are sold listings.

US #BK132 $1 Vending Booklet Solid "13c" cover 1590A 1623Bc perf. 10 pane NH MNH | eBay

US 1623a (BK131) Flag Over Capitol-Capitol Dome 13c-9c -Folded Booklet of 8 | eBay

I could be way wrong here since I don't know as much about stamps as I should... and certainly don't know much about US stamps. But one is labeled BK132 and one is labelled BK131, so I'd say they are different issues, but only a catalogue would be able to tell them apart (that I don't have, I use Stampworld to look up stamps, they don't have info on booklets from what I can see there).

C.

sin-n-dex · ‎03-15-2025

@12345jamesstamps wrote:
One man's garbage is another man's treasure.
This is an off-set stamp where it hard to say what it's worth.
Some sellers will just put a price on something...

I had a 1909 of cut block of 4 from New Zealand. Someone in New Zealand bought it from me for $240 USD. I had kind of made up a price and negotiated down when I had an interested buyer.

C.

sin-n-dex · ‎03-15-2025

@mcw1627jed wrote:
Different gauge perforation of stamps.(Part where they tear apart).Can be hard to tell without a perforation stamp gauge.

@sakic92710

I may have a spare gauge in my desk, if you want it PM me. (I think the one in my desk is plastic and I seem to remember having a metal one in the tool box).

However if the book is sealed, this is not something you can check without opening the booklet.

C.