As a fellow stamp seller I can say fees and costs are up, prices are down and sales are coming into what I call ‘slump’ season. Overall, I would say more down than usual but I put much of that down to the current economic climate.  Im still getting a lot of overseas sales.

I send out 2nd class and have a 3 day handling time which I find has very little detrimental impact. Many stamp collectors are a bit (read a lot!) tight with their money and will often try to get stamps at the lowest price possible. In fact I have a rather nice example currently on sale at half price and I have a regular haggler trying to get me ridiculously down on it. First offer I straight declined because it was insulting, second Im currently ignoring as Im not prepared to go lower than the sale price which is a giveaway anyway. 

I would recommend using SG numbers at all times unless you don’t know them. People collect themes, letters, cancels, perfins, misperfs, highlight these wherever possible.