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- From: dmills@accvio.intel.com (Dave Mills)
- Newsgroups: rec.collecting
- Subject: Re: STAMP:HELP WANTED.
- Message-ID: <30DEC199217305684@accvio.intel.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:30:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.192448.4199@vax.cns.muskingum.edu>, ar_jolly@vax.cns.muskingum.edu writes...
- >GREETINGS!
- >I am an avid philatelist. I am an International student here at Muskingum
- >College..
- >I have been receiving in the mail, offers for 22K replica gold stamps.
- >I was wondering if they are of good collectors value.
- >
- > Thank You
- > Arjun Raj Jolly
-
- In general, 99.99% of the time, the answer is no, No, NO! Here's how to figure
- it: if ((amount of metal in item*value of metal) < (0.95*cost of object))
- don't buy it.
-
- Add random :) to get me off the hook, but that's how I figure it. Obviously,
- if you're interested for other reasons than speculation, then it's a different
- story.
-
- Dave
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- David Mills
- Intel Corporation
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