For a long time I’ve been thinking about writing a review of William.E. Steiner’s Stamp Albums Web but haven’t really gotten around it. But let’s give it a go… In short the deal is simple and sweet: worldwide stamp album pages for yours to keep and print for only US$30.
Dear owners of Philatino.com, instead of sending this feedback directly to You I decided to make this a public matter as many collectors will likely face the same problem. My complaint is that I’m somewhat irritated by Your questionable marketing methods.
It’s time continue the interview series with stamp collectors online. This time I’ll be discussing with Mats Blückert – the man behind excellent Romaniastamps.com website.
This week I’ll be starting a new article category / series, which will introduce various more or less well know online stamp collectors. I have asked interviews from various blog owners, philatelic webmasters, online dealers etc. and kindly many have given some of their time. My first interview is with Mrs. Jeevan Jyoti who runs the excellent Rainbow Stamp Club blog.
As regular readers might have noticed, there have been several changes during past few weeks on this site. For some time I have been thinking of providing a list of recommendable stamp collecting websites – blogs, forums, studies etc. But… I also know that nobody likes to read / browse long list of textual links. Luckily I have come up with a solution that is answer to my prayers. Let me introduce you StampCollector’s StumbleUpon
As some know (or may have noticed from my earlier writings), I’m a great fan of Michel’s printed worldwide stamp catalogue series. I use Michel as my primary source of generic information for worldwide stamps. The problem with printed catalogues however is, the price levels get out date rather fast and new catalogues cost huge sums of money. For example Michel Europe catalogue is currently 7 volumes, Übersee (outside Europe) is 11 or 12 volumes – all costs between 50 and 100 euro brand new, and even few years old used prints cost 20-30€ each. That’s way more than I’m willing to spend for catalogues… Luckily there’s Michel Online Catalogue for scrooges like me.