Rick's Stamp Web - My Offers and Wants

The following table contains my main country offer and what I would like to have in advance:

I Offer:		Description:		My Want:
	Denmark	commems ~1985-99, definitives, all in used		Please suggest (commemoratives for commemoratives, semipostals for semipostals, definitives for defins etc.); in most cases the country you are located in
	Finland	commems ~1985-99, definitives, all in used
	Great Britain	commems ~1985-99, castles, machins, regionals, all in used
	Germany	commems, semipostals last 30 year till 99, definitives, all in used (my largest stock), FDCs
	GDR	commems 80s, definitives, all in CTO
	Ireland	fewer commems ~1980-99, definitives, all in used - Out of stock
	Japan	definitives in used (1960-98)
	Netherlands	commems + semipostals ~1980-99, definitives, all in used
	Norway	commems ~1985-99, definitives, all in used
	Sweden	commems ~1985-99, definitives, all in used
	Switzerland	semipostals ~199x, definitives, all in used
	Zimbabwe	definitive series, all in used		Other african (definitives) series (except RSA) in postally used good cancellation
	Tanzania	commem sets and souvenir sheets, all in mint		Commem sets and souvenir sheets in used with clean round cancellations
	Austria	recent commems ~1990-99, definitives used, FDCs		commems for Portugal only !!!!!!!!!
	Channel Islands	mainly Jersey commems+definitives (+Guernsey & IOM)		Only for other small countries or islands (please suggest) e.g. Caribbean, AAT, Pacific
	Malta	commems+definitives (only few above letter rate but many many multiple to trade-further), all in used

Remarks

• The wast majority of my stamps are from the 1990s. So if you are e.g. from Malaysia and have stamps to offer over several decades I will probably have to offer you several countries in return.
• I guess over 95% of regular trades are singles. In most of trade my partnerships we include the one or other sheet, booklet, FDC, blocks, pairs or cover to make trade a bit more interesting.

Multiple-to-multiple

Many collectors prefer trading 1 for 1 in packets of say 50 to 150, or they never thought of something different. Others like to receive also something to trade-further to other swap partners. So sometimes there's an agreement of say 30 different with 5 of a kind making up a packet of 150 stamps.

Practically speaking you scarcely have all your tradables in the same precise multiple of e.g. five. There may be some items you have hundreds of a kind, others where you only have just a few or only one or two available for trade. Coming back to the example before your trading partner would never see any stamp of which you had less than five available.

As a consequence I can suggest the following:

• Countries marked with the icon are available for a trade multiple-to-multiple. But instead of agreeing on e.g. '20x5' I would suggest a formula like '150, max 5 of a kind'. This means each partner can include max 5 of a kind (or 4, or only 1), in total a packet of 150 stamps.
• For all other countries I can only offer a classic 1 for 1 because my stock in these countries is rather limited.

Transcontinental exchange

If you should live in a different geographical region than Europe we can also find an agreement on a transcontinental exchange. Means that we could trade e.g. Asia-Pacific or (Southern) Africa for Europe (smaller countries for smaller countries, more common for more common and the like), of course with certain limitations if we wish. And again 1 for 1 or multiple-to-multiple. I'm very open and interested for a transcontinental exchange.