Club News: General

StampStore Inventory Tops $5 Million
Sunday, March 15, 2009

APS staffers scan and add hundreds of new stamps, sets, and other philatelic
items to StampStore's online inventory each day. This members-only service
offers more than 300,000 items with total net values of more than $5,000,000.

In February 2009, the net value of the stamps, sets, and other philatelic items
available from the American Philatelic Society's online StampStore for the
first time reached and passed the $5 million mark - a milestone for this
Internet-based service in its ninth year of operation. The combined current
Scott catalogue value of all this material is on the order of $8.5 million.
An increasing number of APS members have discovered for themselves the
convenience and advantages StampStore has to offer those who like to buy and
sell stamps. For a minimal listing fee, members can submit their stamps,
booklets, and covers and have them professionally scanned and offered online to
a discerning and appreciative audience of fellow APS members.
As of March 10, StampStore had 319,042 different items available for buyers -
an ever-changing number that appears right on the home page whenever buyers
visit StampStore <http://www.stampstore.org/> . The listings of these items are
searchable by country, stamp type, key word, Scott catalogue number, StampStore
ID number, and by several helpful combinations of criteria, including by
country and Scott number, by country and stamp type, and by country, stamp type
and key word. The intention is to take the struggle out of, and put the
enjoyment into, searching for stamps for your collection.

Expertly arranged for easy, convenient access, the more than 300,000 single
stamps, sets, booklets, and covers offered at StampStore are shelved in
hundreds of binders that facilitate adding new material to the Internet sales
site with dispatch, and filling online orders as soon as they are received.

Effective July 1, 2009 the posting fees for items submitted to StampStore will
be 10¢ per item. When it was originally established, StampStore posted items at
25¢ per item up to 40 items, or a $10 maximum - a fee structure that has not
changed since September 2000. This new 10¢-per-item fee will apply regardless
of the item value or the number of items submitted to StampStore.
Internet Sales Director Renee Gardner expects that, with the current economic
fluctuations, more collectors than ever are likely to make use of StampStore as
a secure, highly trusted venue to put their philatelic material for sale on the
World Wide Web.
Tips on using StampStore to sell your valued stamps are available
<http://www.stamps.org/newsletter/Jan09Tip.pdf> .
For more information on APS StampStore, contact Renee by phone at 814-933-3803
extension 270, or get in touch by e-mail
<http://www.stamps.org/TheAps/requests_stampstore.htm> .
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To view this release in pdf format, visit http://www.stamps.org/news/P1638.pdf

If you have any questions or require additional information or high-resolution
images, please contact APS Public Relations Manager Fred Baumann at
fred@stamps.org or call him at 814-933-3803, ext. 212

(from ACC News Service, Association of Collecting Clubs. Collectors.org)

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