Cameroun Gandhi Stamps and Overprint sheet with Martin Luther King and Kennedy stamp value : Don't think overprint stamps as ERROR, it is done intensely. !!!

12/22/2011

By Ketankumar Patel.

Hello Gandhi Collectors,

As you all know Cameroun 1968 Gandhi stamps has wide variety( just to make money!!), but I think value of this Cameroun Stamps is going down very fast.

Look at following screenshot, you will be surprised that this triptych stamps of Gandhi was sold only for under $5.!! (This stamp is selling on ebay india for 10500 Rupees.!!)

Cameroun  also has Gandhi Overprint stamp sheet with Martin Luther King and Kennedy's.  I am not sure why they want to do overprinting of this stamp in very large quantity.!!  Don't think this as ERROR stamps. It's a delibrate act to make money.!! by selling it to multiple thematic collectors like Gandhi, MLK, Kennedy's, Space, Moon, Error etc. All other thematic collection is declining very fast except Gandhi collection which is also declining but lesser compare to others.

Following screen shot has 2 types/version of Overprint sheets.(useless sheets.!!), which was sold for $34. Amazing is the philately world where you get money on Error. In regular world you don't buy with little error or mistake or buy it for discounted price,  but in philately it's different!! and you pay premium for error, misprint, overprint etc.

This 2 sheets are selling on ebay india for 5000 and 8000 Rupees, Does this makes sense if you compare with following price of $34 which is 1800 Rupees for both sheet.!!!!!!!!!!

So before you add this in your collection please make sure you don't pay high price because multiple thematic bidders will be buying it and also lot of  cheaters are trying to increase value.

Following screenshot is from ebay India on which it is selling for 5-20 times of recent selling price.!!! One of the reason of this high price is to trick new collectors that this is the price of stamps and when new collector see it at lower price then they will buy it.!!!! But new collectors might be cheated as this stamps might be not worth that much.

Click following link how price are increased in Cameroun Gandhi FDC and dealers/reseller are trying to pay you high price.

http://gandhiphilately.blogspot.com/2011/12/cameroun-ghandi-stamps-fdc-how-some.html

Again thanks for reading and  Please share your thoughts in the comments section.

Thanks

Ketankumar Patel.
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Update on 12/24/11:- 3 triptych of Gandhi, MLK and Kennedy's were sold only for $5.42.!!!

Cameroun Gandhi Stamps FDC : How some stamp dealers increase price and makes it's difficult for new Gandhi collectors - Part 3 ?

12/14/2011

By Ketankumar Patel.

Hello Gandhi Collectors,

This is one of the famous auction where dealers used their dirty tricks to outbid new collectors and than trying to sell their.!!

As you can see from following screenshot that winner of this auction is "Khel10ka". 

He opened new delcampe id just to increase the bid on this item and eventually outbid me and won the auction. But think what he did not paid for this.!!!

Following is the feedback from seller about buyer "Khel10ka"

French to English translation of his feedback 

"no one, attention this person is without interest, refuses the questions, to avoid----------"

Now let's see how dealers/resellers play tricks with you.

Now if you see following screenshot you will get some idea what happen.

Khel10ka started bidding from 153.40 to 190.20 Euros and he won and I lost.!! But "Khel10ka" did not paid.!!! and in this way he increased the price of this FDC and makes it difficult for new Gandhi collectors.

Now if you see "Anusur" started bidding from 125.20 Euros till 153.00.  To me it looks like "Anusur" and "Khel10ka" are same bidders. Also "kad_ss" was trying to sell me Cameroun FDC for 190 Euros.!! 

So now you need you think what happen in this.?

Now if you see above screen shot you will see all dealers/resellers  trying to bidding on this FDC because some of them are or might be also selling this Cameroun FDC.!!

Here there are actually 3-4 bidders but they are using multiple id in order to increase price.!!! This is common practice in Gandhi Philately by certain dealers and resellers.!!

Now you need to decide how to buy , from whom to buy etc when you start collecting Gandhi Philatelic material other wise you will be paying very high price like me.!! So BEWARE !!

Eventually seller sold me this FDC for 120 Euros.!!! Yes I bought it at very high price because of this kind of greedy dealers.!!

If you like this post, then you can read my other blog post

South Africa Gandhi Stamps :  How some stamp dealers increase price - Part 1 ?
San Marino Gandhi Stamps : How some stamp dealers increase price - Part 2

I hope this kind of blog post about my experience will help you to understand how to protect yourself in Gandhi Philately.

As I mentioned in my previous blog posts about this FDC is not rare and price is dropping and lot of shill bidding to sell this FDC. So avoid it by thinking as a piece of paper.


I can keep my mouth shut about this and I can join with them to increase my value, but I choose other option to publish this and make everyone aware of this so no other Gandhi collectors is cheated.!!!

Again thanks for reading and please share your thoughts in the comments section.

Thanks

Ketankumar Patel.
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Cameroun Gandhi Stamps on Used Cover is for sale on delcampe.!!

Hello Gandhi Collectors,

I saw Cameroun used cover with Gandhi stamps  for auction on delcampe. Only 3 days left for auction to end. Following is the screen shot of that cover.

1968 Gandhi stamps is used in 1991.!!

Not sure what will be price of Gandhi  Cameroun Commercial used cover will be.!! As per previous auction it sold for 450+.!! Read previous blog post about Expensive Commerical used covers from Cameroun.!!

http://gandhiphilately.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-cameroun-commerically-used-covers.html

 You can click following URL to see it.

http://delcampe.net/page/item/id,149693843,var,Cameroun-APOTRES-DE-LA-PAIX-BONABERI-VERS-DOUALA-18-03-1991-ARRIVEE-30-GHANDI,language,E.html

While looking at this cover it looks genuine but my only concern is CDS  on Gandhi stamp only. (not on cover and stamp). It's starting price is somewhere between 65-70$.

I use to bid on this kind of used covers but I stopped it. Day by day my trust on used cover is declining because of my research on all kind of possibilities in Philately.!!! It required lot of research for this kind of used covers.

Let see how much this cover sells for. Previous 2 covers were sold for very high price, but looking to it's use in 1991 I don't see it will get what we saw for other 2.

What do you think about this cover. ?

BTW :- Last week this seller sold Cameroun FDC for $150.!! Not sure why this price shoot up so needs to look in to this.!!! I know why and now you need to find out. It's very simple.!!

Thanks for reading

Thanks

Ketankumar Patel.
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