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December 28, 2023 14:03
 from Frenchstamps

New to LastDodo sorry if this is not the right subject but I collect old stamps on letters so called as Postal history and in the catalog I can’t find in which category It is ?

I will be willing to be VIP member and to pay only if I can manage my postal history collection and sell some of what I got like letters with stamps that I got in numbers as usually I try to fo us more on some letters and have other that don’t fit my focus. 

I know that there are a lot of people that collect stamps on letters from 1840 to 1940 nothing to do with FDC ot like that , I put an example a photo of letters that I want add to my Latdodo collection. 
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December 28, 2023 14:08
Frenchstamps
I have made a new topic of your question.
Collectioneur 

Hereby my answer based of what i know of LD.

There is little chance that you will find postal items (postal history) on LD. One of the basic rules on LD is that the object (the thing, the item) must be made in numbers. Postal items are predominantly unique pieces that can tell their own piece of postal history.

In the french Manuel de Base you find the 4 most basic rules of this collectors site.

1 Règles d'inclusion ou d'exclusion des objets dans le catalogue
En principe, nous acceptons les objets de collection qui répondent à un certain nombre de conditions:
*
Sous cette forme, fabriqués en série et (généralement) mis en circulation;
* La possession doit être autorisée par le droit européen;
* Il doit y avoir un objet physique;
* L'objet doit être physiquement différent des objets déjà inclus dans le catalogue. 

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December 28, 2023 14:18
Ok @Raoul62 so you cannot put them in your collection even if you have a VIP subscription with photos and note as option? My idea will be to link my letters to a specific stamp with notes and photos of my letters 
How many photos you can add in a private collection I include letters related to a stamp or varieties of colors or cancel ? 

That a factor very important to become or not VIP more than having a shop as my main main is to manage my collection and if possible to make only few sales to make cheaper for me to be vip member 

I understand that other LastDodo members will not be able to buy one of mine in my shop , I know that many will be happy but I am not here to sale.
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December 28, 2023 14:26
You can add 12 'personal' pictures to each item in your collection.

In a shop you can offer those things. Since a year it is possible to add something that is not based on the catalog in your shop.
Naturally, such things are found less often than items that are based on the catalog (which are also in collections and in search lists of other users)

VAT: VIP it is not so pricey. Two beers on a cozy terrace ... Of course, the latter is also important ...
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December 28, 2023 14:30
Many thanks Raoul62 thats useful information 
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Dear @Raoul62 

My wife was laughting reading your  as VIP is about 60 € a year and  you state that it is “2 beers in a cozy terrace” as say my wife we don’t know so expensive bar in Belgium to drink a 30 € beer x 2 even in the best five stars. I pay my beer no more that 5 € usually 4 € for a premium beer.  

Firstly So I will wait to sale 60 € of stamps I have in multiple in my free member shop before going to VIP as I am a greedy wise man. Secondly I don’t want to sell more than 28 stamps per years so no cheap stamps in my shop. I will propose stamps not common ones at a minimum selling price of 20 € all with photos and fair descriptions.

If Lastdodo was offering better collection tool to manage a postal history collection I will pay directly the 60 € but I doubt it will be the case for a postal history collector as all are unique as you state.

Many thanks for providing me all the infos about the collection management that save me for now 60 € but I promise if I sale 60 € in my shop I will take the VIP membership that is a fair deal.
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December 29, 2023 15:56
 I pay my beer no more that 5 € usually 4 € for a premium beer. 
 
Ok, not 2 but 1 (one) beer then

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Raoul62 My wife is my banker and she said to me : you  will pay the VIP annual membership to Lastdodo when you will sell on your shop 60 € it is the same when I want to buy a letter or stamps for my collection.

It is not a good idea  Raoul62 to compare VIP price with beer or coffee as I hate to waste money drinking a beer or coffee . I don’t drink beer except if friends pay me a beer and I don’t drink coffee only water from the city water network is fine for me.

Me and my wife we drink a premium beer once a year except if someone pay us a premium beer. 

I was lucky to inherit of  the small French classic stamps collections of my gran father and one uncle 45 years ago and  later  32 years ago that a  friend French stamp collector give me for free a bulk of over 1000 postal history items to study and collect. He wasn’t interested at all by that like many French collectors focus on stamps at this time.

I was in Delcampe and decide to close my Delcampe account this month as many Belgium, Dutch  , French collectors on Delcampe as I don’t accept their new practices toward small collectors doing just few sales.
 
I was selling 20 stamps for 500 € some years and so I was allowed by my wife to buy for 500 € for my collection no 1 cents and the years I was selling on Delcampe 0 € I was not buying any stamps for my collection.

If I sell in Lastdodo I buy a VIP and some stamps lastdodo sellers that have photos of what they sell (no photo no buy)  and if I don’t sell on my Lastdodo  I will buy nothing on Lastdodo.
 
I need to sell to buy that the rule of life. 

The money of the house is to travel together, to buy food and go sometimes to a restaurants together my wife and this is my rules to be happy with the most important person in my life my wife.
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