"Pay It Forward" - A Freebie Thread Good For Your Soul!

sherro · **Posted:** Thu May 07, 2009 13:28:25 pm

Do you want to improve your Karma? Well, this thread is designed to enable Stampboarders to do just that by giving stamps, or anything philatelic, away for absolutely nothing in return. :shock:

The catch is that, if you accept the free offer, you must in turn list something up for free. When YOUR offer has been accepted by another boarder, then YOUR stamps will be sent to you.

The Rules:

1. The offer is to be totally free including regular postage anywhere. If the recipient wants registered post, it will be up to the donor to ask for payment to cover that, or not. Items sent by regular post are posted at the recipient's risk. If an offer is not accepted within 7 days, the person making the offer must add more material to it or withdraw the offer. If the offer is not added to, it is deemed to be withdrawn and any other member may make an alternative offer.

2. A scan must accompany each offer

3. The first poster accepting the free offer, by posting an acceptance post in the thread, must then, within 24 hours, post up a free offer of similar or greater quality/value. Please DO NOT criticise a freebie on the thread, that would defeat the purpose! If you think that, perhaps, value may not be there, drop an email to a mod and let them take care of any issues.

4. Stamps will NOT to be sent to ANYONE until their free offer has been accepted by another member

5. Clearly, only one offer can be posted and live at any time

6. Only board members with 100 or more posts and 2 months membership are eligible to participate

7. The recipient of any free offer is to scan and post a picture of the envelope received (please ensure that you block/cover/pixelate your address details!!!)

8. Should any member choose to de-rail the process, perhaps by the non-delivery of stamps offered, they will be subject to an automatic 30-day ban from the board. The Moderator Team will monitor the progress of this thread closely

Make the offer worthwhile, this will flow very smoothly and be a lot of fun!

I'll start the ball rolling, and obviously I'm not going to give the house away on an untested thread!

The first giveaway is 120+ US Pre-Cancels, including a nice group of Postage Dues. Quite heavy duplication (New York, Chicago especially), but many smaller towns and different types

Ricolo · **Posted:** Thu May 07, 2009 21:43:59 pm

Hello,

I accept!

Today I will post my offer.

Nice idea!

Cheers Rico

sherro · **Posted:** Thu May 07, 2009 22:11:30 pm

Well done Rico, let's get the ball rolling. When you've got your offer posted in the thread, email me your address and I'll get the stamps ready to go!

Ricolo · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 05:34:49 am

Hello, this is my offer

100+ german used stamps

Start your german stamp collection today!!! This 100+ stamps will be the beginning. Only for an other offer!

Sorry for the bad scans, I hope the offer is interesting.

Cheers Rico

ozstamps · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 14:13:09 pm

David Feldman Switzerland May 2009 "Rarities Of The World" Deluxe full colour catalogue.

http://www.davidfeldman.com/l/1/m/2

Mailed free anywhere, nothing needed in return. Great addition to the library!

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 17:13:59 pm

Nice to see this thread being started by Sherro.
Hope it gets good response.

Cheers
Andrew

norvic · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 19:10:46 pm

ozstamps wrote:

David Feldman Switzerland May 2009 "Rarities Of The World" Deluxe full colour catalogue.

Mailed free anywhere, nothing needed in return. Great addition to the library!

Glen,
Does this mean you just 'bought' the German collection? I thought this was a single-chain transaction/thread.

One offers, next one accepts and offers, next one accepts that and offers more, etc etc. Throwing in extra offers is confusing? Or have I missed the point?

sherro · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 19:30:45 pm

Ian, well spotted. The plan was for one item at a time, however, if each "donor" watches their own freebie forward, it still works. Could become a moderator's nightmare though!!

admin · **Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 19:50:09 pm

OK ,, got it.

Sherro's system seems the wisest.

Anyway, seeing I already posted it, i guess, someone can have the Feldman if they want it AND get the Germany if they are happy to be next in line. :mrgreen:

sherro · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2009 22:44:26 pm

Shameless bump!

Does no-one want 100 German stamps so I can send the pre-cancels to Ricolo?

annwiggy · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 10:58:36 am

sherro wrote:

Shameless bump!

Does no-one want 100 German stamps so I can send the pre-cancels to Ricolo?

Sherro, I am keeping an eye on this but am away from home until Thursday, if nobody has taken up the offer at that point I will put up a page of recent Australian, but hopefully somebody will respond before then.

sherro · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 11:03:27 am

Good on you Ann

tejsar · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 18:13:43 pm

hmm 100 posts

seems pretty harsh ( For me

)

sherro · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 19:00:18 pm

Hi tejsar. Join in some of the discussion threads, and you'll reach 100 posts in no time

tejsar · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 20:46:50 pm

thx for suggestion surely cya all in sm time

ohh thts +1 post!!!!! :lol:

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 20:52:54 pm

tejsar wrote:

thx for suggestion surely cya all in sm time

ohh thts +1 post!!!!! :lol:

Careful .... we might make the rules 200 posts for folks who type in text-speak, in all lower case.

On stampboards we ALL use capital letters in the correct places.

sherro · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2009 00:05:18 am

'Fraid not! You can only list a freebie if you take the last one offered (which in this case is 100 Germany) :wink:

sherro · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2009 11:12:08 am

Not enough philanthropy around at the moment it seems!

annwiggy · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 18:34:22 pm

OK as noted a while ago, I am now home and can say that I will take the German stamps, and I have here a page of recent Australian not as many numerically but some nice items. I will also include 2 different sets, of the most recent Australian 55c stamps, I just haven't sorted them out yet.

Here is the test though, how will my scan go!!!

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 18:49:51 pm

annwiggy wrote:

Here is the test though, how will my scan go!!!

Our software allows you to go 20% bigger Ann. But it IS an improvement.

Have you got your photobucket set to "15"" setting?

annwiggy · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 19:13:18 pm

GlenStephens wrote:

annwiggy wrote:

Here is the test though, how will my scan go!!!

Our software allows you to go 20% bigger Ann. But it IS an improvement.

Have you got your photobucket set to "15"" setting/

I didn't but think I now have, so lets see if this is any better! (I dont think it is any different is it?!!)

sherro · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 19:23:22 pm

Good on you Ann. Ricolo's stamps will be on the way tomorrow

(and the scan looks fine)

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 19:34:13 pm

annwiggy wrote:

GlenStephens wrote:

annwiggy wrote:

I didn't but think I now have, so lets see if this is any better! (I dont think it is any different is it?!!)

Ann as you can clearly see it is much larger.

To see that, you simply right click on ANY image, then left click on "properties" and as you can see image 1 is 479 x 687 and image 2 is 581 x 799 .. or right on the max of 800 for photobucket.

You are still using a far too low rez scanner, but at least the images are bigger!

Big blurry is better than small blurry, especially for what you do on ebay etc. Sharp photos are EVERYTHING on there.

A blurry scan of a page might get you $5 and a clear scan $10 of same page as folks can actually SEE waht they are bidding on, so after a few dozen lots of that nature, a decent Canon lide100 scanner is easily paid off.

Ebay listings fees are the same whether good images or not. :S

Fuzzy in = fuzzy out, to twist a old saying. :mrgreen:

Ricolo · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 19:40:21 pm

I put my computer in to make my offer a little bit worther and now the offer is acceptet. Anyway, my little "plus" will go to Ann.

4 different german frama labels (ATM)
5 stamps from the serie "Woman on stamps"
and 10 more commemoratives.

Ann, if you like more germans, I can make a scan for you. You know, I collect Australia :-)

Cheers Rico

eqnox · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 22:33:56 pm

Are pandadog28's stamps available? If so I'm interested.

sherro · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 23:36:10 pm

Per the rules, the only stamps available are annwiggy's Australian offer

pandadog28 · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 00:14:39 am

Sherro,

Sorry for stuffing this one up for you. You can delete my offer and eqnox can email me if he wants them. i will add something else at the correct time.

Ricolo · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 02:54:45 am

Today I recieved the mail from Sherro.

Here is a scan of the nice envelope:

Thx Sherro and I hope this thread will get a long history.

Cheers Rico

nico_jnk · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 07:47:22 am

Well, I will get the Ann batch if someone accept my stamps, I'll scan as soon as possible.

nico_jnk · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 08:51:45 am

here it goes, some frenchie stamps, aerophilately, mariannes, coat of arms,...

Tomorrow I'm adding some spanish... it's too late now (23:56 pm) and my scan is very noisy

nico_jnk · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 05:57:41 am

Here the spanish ones (sorry but there is not the complete stamp issue, I've noticed that Euskadi flag is missed, and Andalucia's is repeated)

Waiting for more Ann's scans

Ricolo · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 07:14:57 am

The offer from Ann is accepted. So I will send the german stamps to her this weekend.

Cheers Rico

danyeung · **Posted:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 22:23:37 pm

If no one is interested in nico_jnk's offer, this thread stops.

May I suggest to allow more than one person to accept (Ann's) offer and post their offering ?

Then the first of these offers being accepted by another stampboard member will get Ann's offer...and so on.

I think this many to one approach will have a better chance to keep this thread on-going.

annwiggy · **Posted:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 23:18:59 pm

Ricolo wrote:

The offer from Ann is accepted. So I will send the german stamps to her this weekend.

Cheers Rico

Not sure if this happened but as at 10th June they have not arrived.

nico_jnk · **Posted:** Thu Jun 11, 2009 22:29:37 pm

Is my offer so bad no one's interested?

I think it's adequate according previous batches...may I'm wrong?

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 17:08:16 pm

nico_jnk wrote:

Is my offer so bad no one's interested?

I think it's adequate according previous batches...may I'm wrong?

I will accept this offer. In turn, I am offering the following MUH mainland China complete sets and singles from the mid 1980's.

nico_jnk, I will email my postal address to you when my offer is accepted.

Norm

Norm

annwiggy · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 18:15:23 pm

From the requirements of this post I should now send the Australian stamps (plus other recent ones I have gathered together) to Nico, however I'm not sure that I want to do that before receiving the stamps that were supposed to come to me.

Am I right in thinking this way?

Ricolo · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 19:23:30 pm

Hallo Ann,

no fear, I was on a bussiness trip and I want send the stamps from my favourite PO for a better cancellation. I will send your stamps together with the next chain letter to you next Tuesday.

Cheers Rico

sherro · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 19:37:14 pm

Well I'm glad that's sorted out

annwiggy · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 20:05:57 pm

Ricolo wrote:

Hallo Ann,

no fear, I was on a bussiness trip and I want send the stamps from my favourite PO for a better cancellation. I will send your stamps together with the next chain letter to you next Tuesday.

Cheers Rico

Thats OK Rico just that you said you were posting them just after the 27th May and I thought that they should have arrived by now.

Nico would you email me your address details and I will have your package ready.

nico_jnk · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 01:21:13 am

fromdownunder wrote:

nico_jnk wrote:

Is my offer so bad no one's interested?

I think it's adequate according previous batches...may I'm wrong?

I will accept this offer. In turn, I am offering the following MUH mainland China complete sets and singles from the mid 1980's, CV $A55.00 (S.G 2004 simplified).

nico_jnk, I will email my postal address to you when my offer is accepted.

Norm

Norm

Thanks Norm, I was afraid I had frozen the flow

Ann, address mailed

and waiting for Kidman

librarianc · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 08:40:15 am

Norm:

I'll take your China selection!!

And here is my offer: Canada Olympic stamps. All are Mint, Never Hinged and relate to the Montreal 1976 Olympics.

Hope these are of interest to someone. I originally put the SG Simplified value in, but then changed my mind as it may make others less inclined to put up an item. Free is Free, right!!

John A

librarianc · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 08:49:21 am

oops........one relates to the Innsbruck Winter Games........managed to sneak in somehow.......

Norm: I'll send along my mailing address (if you don't already have it) when my lot is selected.

John A

nico_jnk · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 09:51:06 am

Well, Norm, ready to go,

waiting for your address

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:02:30 am

nico_jnk wrote:

Well, Norm, ready to go,

waiting for your address

Sent.

Norm

eqnox · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 13:06:58 pm

librarianc, I would like the stamps. I have the following to offer 2 "stamp collector packets" and 2 MUH very colorful sheets. The packets are in a plastic wrapper. I do know the value of any of the items. I would imagine the stamps in the collectors packs are not worth a lot but the packs are interesting. I will also provide a nice cover with recent US stamps. (let me know if you have any requests)

Got to love those gutters.

If anyone thinks I need to add more to the offer please email me and let me know. I want to be fair but and I don't have a catalog for any of these stamps.

librarianc · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 22:07:23 pm

Great stuff, Eqnox!! I'll get these ready for when your lot is selected by someone.

Norm, email has been sent!!

John A

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Thu Jun 18, 2009 15:09:19 pm

librarianc wrote:

Great stuff, Eqnox!! I'll get these ready for when your lot is selected by someone.

Norm, email has been sent!!

John A

John, I will post the stamps on Saturday morning.

Norm

eqnox · **Posted:** Sat Jun 20, 2009 00:51:52 am

In an effort to keep the thread moving forward and to sweeten the deal I'm going to add a few items to my offer.
the 2 Spanish packets (See above)
2 each of The Israel mini-pane and the Gibraltar blocks from above.

And the following items. 2 of which are Olympic related to keep with the previous offer.

(I am not sure why the dolphin is flying)

(Please Note: The Grenada stamps not in great condition. No glue, hinges on the back, and a small crease or two. They would be great for a younger collector)

sherro · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 00:50:42 am

OK. I feel a rule change coming on, and I've added it above, as follows:

"If an offer is not accepted within 7 days, the person making the offer must add more material to it or withdraw the offer. If the offer is not added to, it is deemed to be withdrawn and any other member may make an alternative offer."

Let's get moving folks!


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