Paris philatelic exhibition "Planete Timbre 2010"

From june 12 to 20 2010 in Paris at Le Parc Floral de Vincennes.

I will try to go. I haven't been to a philatelic exhibition for at least 10 years. I went to a dealer show about 5 years ago in Montreal (Canada), but it was really small. I did not find anything of interest for my collection and ended up drinking coffee with a fellow philatelist and my father. Both really happy to show off their latest acquisition.

But now we are talking a big exhibit, so hopefully I will find some interesting items for my collections.

First, I'll make sure to get a couple of the salon special FDC.
Then will stop and say Hi to the Delcampe team

And then will spend money, hopefully.

Here's a link to the official site of the salon: Planete timbres

And here's the link to get your free entrance pass: Print your free pass

And here's a link to see more about the beautiful Parc Florale de Vincennes: Parc floral de Vincennes

And here's a last thing for you: a nice preview of some of the upcoming France 2010 stamp issue. These will be released during the Salon: a silver-etched football stamp, the beautiful garden souvenir sheet (Jardin de Giverny) with gold embossed finish, 2 booklets similar to the 2009 flower of the region but this time on food and gastronomy (saveurs de nos regions), a souvenir sheet on windmills and many more.

Moving part of stampslore blog

I will be moving my blog posting related directly to my online selling to my website here: www.stampslore.com. I will keep posting here as well on various subjects related to philately and collecting. But everything that is related to my online sales will be move to the new blog.


Please bookmark it!

Off to make my first post there. See you around

Everybody is doing it: twitter

Everybody is doing it, so I did too. I'm talking about twitter of course.

Months ago I registered, but never came back until a few days ago. I started following a few people I know, added some collectors to the mix, a couple of squidoo and ebay users as well and now I'm starting to see the beauty and interest of it.

You can follow me here: Stampslore on Twitter

Long time no see!

As some of you might know I am currently on vacation in Canada.
It's kinda depressing to have so little snow right now in Canada since I am here for familly and friends of course...and for SNOW. It's depressing to see that France got more snow in the last month than we got here. And no freezing weather either. I want my money back!!!!

I'll be back "home" in France soon, and the store will reopen on/around march 1st.
I got plenty of new stamps and mixture to list and hopefully will manage to have close to a hundred of new items in store in the first week of march: off paper mixtures, France FDC's from the 1950-65 period, the latest 2010 France stamps and more.

Hopefully The French postal administration will be over its 2009 issuing frenzy otherwise they may soon join the select list of wallpaper issuing "countries" along with Ajman, Umm Al Quiman and the like.

See you soon.

Help Nate realized his wish before it's too late

Nate is a little 8 years old boy, in terminal phase of a cancer.
His wish is to receive 1 million Christmas cards.
Everyone can help this little guy realize his wish.
It will only cost you a stamp and card and can make someone very very happy.

His name is Nate Elfrink. He lives in Ohio.

You can send the cards to his address:

NATE ELFRINK
2415 TAYLOR BLAIR ROAD
WEST JEFFERSON, OHIO
43162
USA

To learn more about him read the local papers about him: Town rallies around little Nate

Win the very rare Monaco 2009 Euro coins set

Another hard to get set if you collect the BU euro coins.
They currently go for 500 to 800 euros each! It's a very limited
issue and Delcampe offers you a chance to get this set! This new contest runs until december 31st and you can participate once a day for free! You just need to be a Delcampe member.

Participate here

Stampslore, squidoo and google

Long time ago (sometimes in 2007) I registered to squidoo and made a page there to promote my ebay store. To be honest I didn't tend very much to this page, and for almost two years it just sat there, with very to no updates. But it keep bringing me traffic, days in and days out. Recently, I become interested again in squidoo and decided it was time to refresh my Stampslore page.

Dilemma: I hated the special template Squidoo did for us ebay store owners back in 2007 and wanted to revert to one of the regular template. That couldn't be done. I had to do the page again, but was told that if I keep the same url, I will keep the backlinks and hopefully, remain seen on google search. If you search for Stampslore, my Squidoo page is coming up in third place (first entry being this blog). Squidoo is a good promotional tool.

Now time will tell if I did a mistake or not! The new page is done (need a little more content, but the basic is done).

Here's the link: http://www.squidoo.com/stampslore

What is Squidoo? It's a free community, where you can build a single page website, using pre-made modules, on the topic of your choice.

Free insertion fee (auction only) on ebay France today December 6th

It's been a long time I haven't list anything on Ebay France because honestly it is usually a waste of time. But free is free, so why not. I am listing mainly art, anthropology, history and crafts books and magazines, some stamps to test the water and a couple other collectibles. I'll give my selling stats next week.

I did start the auctions close to what I want because I know that for most categories, auction is dead on Ebay France.

If you want to list and enjoy the free listing you need to list on auction format, 7 days. Any extras will cost you the usual ebay fees.

Stampwants/Bidstart: Lower Fees on Additional Pictures for Store Listings

Anything that can save us a few cents here and there is good. So this announcement by Stampwants/Bidstart is worth mentioning:

Additional picture fees for store listings are now only charged once when you create a listing, and are non-recurring

.

Good for seller's pocket, and good for buyer. More pics on listings can make the difference between the buynow button and the back button.

Often as a buyer I'll hit the back button if not enough information is presented. I have to say that this happen to me mainly on Delcampe. I have pass dozen and dozen of stamps for lack of pictures or description.

Delcampe Prestige

Delcampe has launched Delcampe Prestige last week. It's a new site that gathers many of the world renowned Auction Houses.

Delcampe Prestige will make available many live auction catalogs, making it possible to participate in these live auction via the website.

3 catalogs are already online:

Philatélie et Histoire postale de prestige, by la Maison Boule, from Monaco (bids until the 3d of December)

Monnaies 41 by CGB, la Compagnie Générale de Bourse, from Paris (bids until this Thursday night!)

Papier Monnaie 15 by CGB, la Compagnie Générale de Bourse, from Paris (bids until the 7th of January).

If you are already a member of Delcampe, you do not need to create a new account to bid on Delcampe Prestige. And Delcampe Prestige does not replace Delcampe, it's a different entity, both sites complete each other.