Managing your stamp collecting time!
Hello to all! I am new to the Hipstamp forum so I thought a question or two would break the ice. 1) How much time do you spend on your stamps; 2) if you are a seller how much time do you spend on preparing your orders (packaging, mailing, etc.). Thanks.
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I'm relatively new to the site as a seller (started in January) with decades of accumulations to sell. As a seller, I generally spend about 20 hours a week cataloging, scanning, posting, pulling, packaging, etc. I'm pretty much in it every day, at least an hour, usually more. And I have a regular full-time job. But this is how I relax. I love sending out stamps to other collectors and find it really interesting to see what others collect and what they find interesting.
As a collector... I spend a lot of time, and I have a massive US collection covering the entirety of the Scott Specialized catalog. Few of the big ticket items missing, but not much. Still have a whole in my C3a and my 164... Could do with a 5 and 80 - 82, and 85A, but those are just crazy.
Current obsession is Private Die, to be honest. About 70% of the way there now across all types a, b, c, d, e, u.
In fairness, I only list when we have a new collection and I'm putting the high value stuff where ID and condition are really critical (not that it's not in other listings, but when you're asking someone to pay north of $500 for an item, you want to make sure you've bloody well got it right).
I have an admin that runs the day-to-day for our store. But I created all those processes ages ago, and can now hand it over to someone else. For difficult ID's (like FW's, the odd paper types, LBNs, that kind of thing), I do the ID, put it in a tagged protector, and hand it off to be listed. When I list I use the bulk lister, and usually put up 25 - 100 at a time, my admin lists individually, throughout the day, as time permits. But generally we aim to get at least 10 new listings up every day. That keeps the turnover good.