Behind the Stamps: Chats with Philatelists at Tauranga Stamp Fair. [Ep21]

[@vongtaynhanaikptt6066]

Great video sharing, very interesting

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thank you so much for your kind comment, and thank you for watching! 🙂

[@chrisfischer5937]

It looks like you had a lot of fun!

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thanks for watching and commenting, Chris. It was an excellent day! 🙂

[@tgkstamps]

Thank you very useful video, very good

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thank you very much for watching and for your kind comment!

[@ugolock-filatelista]

Good afternoon thank you very much for the interesting video. I always watch your videos with great pleasure. I wish you all the best.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Alexander! I hope you are well and in good spirits! Thanks you so much again for watching and commenting. I feel privileged that you watch my videos. They don't always show beautiful stamps like you do. I actually bought one of the blocks of Russian stamps with animals on it after I saw your video showing the gift you stamps you got with the beautiful Russian animal stamps with it. I think I must show those in a video. Thank you!!!!!! 🙂🤗

[@ugolock-filatelista]

@@GreatStampAdventure thank you so much

[@adamhuffman3354]

Great video! Looks like good fun!

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Adam! It was fun! My focus was on finding the Girl of Bora Bora stamps, but talking with people along the way was a privilege. Thanks for watching and commenting!!!

[@adamhuffman3354]

I know I go to the Raleigh NC show when I can, always looking for something in particular and get so distracted! The good kind! Thanks.

[@adamhuffman3354]

I know I go to the Raleigh NC show when I can, always looking for something in particular and get so distracted! The good kind! Thanks.

[@adamhuffman3354]

I know I go to the Raleigh NC show when I can, always looking for something in particular and get so distracted! The good kind! Thanks.

[@adamhuffman3354]

I know I go to the Raleigh NC show when I can, always looking for something in particular and get so distracted! The good kind! Thanks.

[@stephenogier7499]

Another nice video. It's great to meet some of the people who share our hobby. Have a great weekend!

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thank you, Steve!!! I am so sorry. I am terribly behind with my email communications! I plan to catch up tomorrow. I am actually looking forward to get properly in touch again. Thanks for everything!!!! 😊

[@thatdadguy1974]

I am glad to see you making friends in the hobby in your area.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Yes, being able to make friends is special, especially since I don't have friends yet in New Zealand, and stamp friends are something to cherish. Thanks for watching, Rob, and your comment. 🙂🙂🙂

[@ConiferElements]

Nice visit to the stamp fair! Some friendly people there.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

It is such a pleasure to meet and get to know the Stamp Club members, and other stamp collectors I encounter. Everybody is really friendly, kind and sincere. It is such a privilege to be able to be among such special people! Thank you for watching and your positive comment! Enjoy your weekend! 🙂

[@chrislovesstamps]

Nice episode. Your last fest episodes has been the closest I have been to a stamp fair. Yes, kinda said. I buy my stamps online, no brick-and-mortar shop in my area. And I think a lot of people do. I think maybe stamp dealers are ‘bypassed’ by individual sellers who sell their stamps through forums and websites. That way it might look stamp collecting is dying, but maybe it isn’t. I see a lot of interest for modern used, from the years 200 til current. I am not a stamp dealer but because I don’t cut off at a certain year I know I have been competing with others for modern used stamps. Anyway, I love your videos and it was nice to hear others collectors talk! Have a wonderful weekend!

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Chris!!! Yes, it is probably difficult to really determine the amount of stamp collecting activity, also under younger people, because of so much activity and dealing being on internet these days. In my short stamp collecting endeavour I also mostly bought from an online trading site. On that site I have not seen many modern stamps being traded, like you are getting. I am not yet concentrating on modern stamps, yet. In countries like New Zealand where postal cancellations are frequently not used, and the cancellations nationally only contains a date, used stamps and postal history is taking a knock! Maybe that will make them even more valuable if any eventually still exist. I only bought from stamp dealers in real life on two occasions now, and although I am a bit hesitant about the prices, there is something special to physically see and choose stamps and get them immediately. Thanks so much for watching and your positive comment!!!! I appreciate it so much! You must have an excellent weekend as well. 🙂

[@dawidswart123]

It seems like a lot of good moments shared by all the philatelists at the club. I hope to see some more of what the club members collect and who they are. Thank you again for a great video.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thanks for watching Dawid! The philatelists are very special and kind people, and make one feel at home. I hope I will have more opportunities to catch some of the stamp club members on video.

[@schuey089]

Nice video again Charnie, interesting to know what other people collect or specialise in! Keep them coming, enjoying them a lot! Take care best wishes from the UK

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hello Schuey! I am always glad to see you here! I also find it interesting to see what people collect. It can be very varied from collector to collector. Thanks for watching and commenting as always. You must have an excellent rest of the weekend, and you must take care as well!!! 🙂

[@issamalmohsen1197]

❤

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thanks again for watching and commenting, Issam.

[@FunAtHomeCollectibles]

we need to try - maybe through these videos - to start a trend of collecting with young people. Have an AWESOME day !! 🎥💥🔥👍☮

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi! Yes, that is an awesome goal! Most of my channel's viewers are older than 65, which is fine with me, but I have very few, almost no young viewers. I don't have children and is not much exposed to young people, and I will find it hard to do videos in a way that will attract young people. I think with your channel you are in a much better place to get young people to watch and get involved. You must have a beautiful week as well. Quite rainy in Tauranga today.

[@jeffsstamps]

Lots of very interesting people into stamps - love it!!! I think it is wonderful you can get to these stamp gatherings/fairs - I love to watch them so much !! - Thank-you Sharnie - Jeff :)

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thank YOU for watching and commenting, Jeff!!! I enjoy going to these stamp shows as well. In general New Zealanders are very friendly people, and the stamp collectors even more so. Lovely to speak to them.

[@TengriWorldwideCollectib-rj2fm]

Dear Charnie! Very sweet and great video you put together showing us a very kind stamp collectors comunitiy! See you soon!! Best regards!!!

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Nikolai and Roman. Thank you very, very much again for watching some of my older videos! I appreciate it so much!!! Very best regards to you as well!

[@TengriWorldwideCollectib-rj2fm]

@@GreatStampAdventure Hi Charnie! We are really glad to watch some intersting stuff on your channel. Thats why we are watching your videos. No matter if it will be a few months older!!

[@basilsylvesterpinto10]

I start my weekend with your interactive philatelic episode. Your pleasant disposition is the way it should be while interacting with others, against a hobby construed for the quieter, solitary and reserved folks. Today, I am mailing out postcards to three different Ukrainians from various parts of the country. I showcase my solidarity with Ukraine through philately and postcards.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Basil!!! I hope your weekend will be exceptional because you started with my video. 🙂😉Thank you for watching and for your comment! Did you make a video about your reach out to Ukraine? I will go and have a look at your channel. It is good that you show your convictions and philately and postcards are excellent ways to do it! Best wishes to you, friend!🙂

[@basilsylvesterpinto10]

@@GreatStampAdventure thanks for the good vibes. started well, hope it ends well with the World Cup cricket final versus Australia tomorrow. Few days earlier we defeated New Zealand in the first semi-final, having gone undefeated through the league stage, while Australia won a thriller against South Africa in the second semis, a day later. As for philately and postcards, sorry but I am active in posts on instagram and other social media. Enjoy your weekend.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately for New Zealand it did not go well for them in the cricket. Australia was just superior. I like cricket, but did not follow this worldcup so closely up to the end. The cricket by India is always superb. I must start to use Instagram more! Lots of best wishes to you there in Goa. 🙂@@basilsylvesterpinto10

[@basilsylvesterpinto10]

@@GreatStampAdventure thank you. Entire India and Indian diaspora the world over needs your wishes 🙂

[@kozzackkelt]

Thank you for sharing your trip to the Tauranga Stamp Fair ! Did you find anything for your collection?

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi! I am glad you enjoyed the trip. 🙂 Yes, I went to the fair with a plan to search for a particular stamp and got it! It was the girl of Bora Bora stamp and I was so lucky to be able to buy a used and mint stamp of her. I also bought a Canadian Bluenose!!! It was such an eventful day. You must enjoy your weekend! 🙂

[@DavidFullard]

Ive been going through a lot of your videos since i found your channel. Its very informative. thanks so much.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hello David! Thank you very, very much for watching my videos. It means so much to me. I am very glad that you found them informative. I think one of my goals is to give useful knowledge to stamp collectors! I love those types of KZbin videos of other channels. I wish you and your family a merry and blessed Christmas time, and a joy filled, prosperous New Year!!!

[@DavidFullard]

@@GreatStampAdventure thanks very much, hope you have a wonderful magical Christmas. Keep up the good work. Finally found out where your lovely accent is from, i took a while and i didnt have a clue, im usually good with accents, but you had me wondering hard,. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you. Have a great day.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

My accent is pretty heavy, although it doesn't sound so to my ear. 😆South African, but particularly, my home language is Afrikaans and not English. Were you right? 🙂@@DavidFullard

[@DavidFullard]

​@@GreatStampAdventure You have a lovely, unique exotic accent that was hard for me to work out its origin. We never notice our accents, I dont notice mine, but others do. I love all the different accents, Hope you are having a really nice Christmas

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thank you David!@@DavidFullard

[@jerrystamps]

Very friendly people there. Its a shame the dealers are declining and younger people are not collecting as much, it seems they can't live without their iPhone etc

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Jerry! Yes, younger people within this digital information age are so busy with their cell phones. I think stamp collecting might also have a "stuffy" image and is generally regarded as being practiced by "old people". However, I am sure the hobby must still be pursued by some young people. Hopefully they are enough to keep philately alive. It is really such an exciting thing. The people involved in stamps, and New Zealanders in general, are very friendly and kind. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!!!! You know how much it means for a channel.

[@issamalmohsen1197]

لدي مجموعه كبيره من الطوابع البريدية النادره اريد بيعها ارجو منك المساعده

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Issam, thanks for watching. I am sorry, I cannot help you with selling stamps. You can try to take your collection to a local dealer for appraisal and possibly selling it, or you can sell on online auction sites like E-bay. It is not simple, though, you have to catalogue your stamps and get to know retail prices. Good luck!

[@issamalmohsen1197]

شكرا ❤