Showing posts with label 9kg GB kiloware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 9kg GB kiloware. Show all posts

Friday, September 13, 2013

kiloware

 
 
 
Kiloware - you either love it or hate it! I've always dealt in kiloware, it's a nice entry level product that gives people a great deal of fun and, occasionally, a real find!
 
I sell kiloware from all over the world but 95% of what I sell is GB, the market for this has gone through the roof in recent years, just as many charities gave up collecting it! Result - price has risen from around £5 to £50 a kilogram, and I could sell ten times what I do if only I could find the stock!
 
My secret is to leave it exactly as I find it. I'm never tempted to dip in and pick out the 'best' stuff. For this reason my customers tend to quite happily pay upfront for lots they won't even get for 5 or 6 months!
 
I also sell country lots, mainly in 100 gram bags. But I also have a wonderful world mix that is always surprising with loads of high values, airmails and older material. If you're a general collector, or want to start trading, there's nothing better! I usually have reasonable supplies of this and there's no need to order up front! 

My rules - ALL kiloware is always untouched with nothing taken out (or added!) by me. I always use good stamps for the postage which receive CDS postmarks from my local PO. 1 kg lots are also protected with plastic, so 9 times out of 10 you'll have lovely scarce genuinely postally fine used GB to sell on ...

Monday, October 17, 2011

fresh kiloware


Just listed lots of new kiloware - Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Malaysia and GB Wildings. These always sell really quickly!!
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Friday, March 12, 2010

9kg!


In the back of the car after collecting from the charity - Tuesday.


9kg lot being weighed up - Wednesday.


Weighed up boxes take over the living room! - Wednesday.


Boxed up and ready for stamping - Wednesday.

Nice stamps ready for the outside - Thursday.

Stamped up and waiting in the hallway - Thursday.


In the back of the car - Friday.
The walk to the Post Office - the reason boxes are 9kg and no heavier! - Friday.


Filling up the post office - why it's done in two runs over two days! - Friday.

The postmarker and sellotape - the final touch ensuring the stamps used for postage are nicely postmarked and protected on their journey to you - Friday.

A lot goes into your 9kg box! There's a 200 mile round trip to pick up from the charity. Normally I pick up 300kg of GB and 50kg of World.

The next day I start weighing up the 9kg boxes. The raw material comes in 10kg sacks and I normally make up the 9kg lots from at least two 10kg sacks and also include the smaller donations from about 25 other charities that come in on a daily basis.

It normally takes two days to make up all the boxes and label and stamp them up.

As they go to the village PO (to get the good cancellations!) it normally takes two trips - on Friday and Saturday - to clear the lot. This is due to space limitations in the car but, more importantly, at the PO.

With luck the boxes should arrive with the customer from Saturday onwards.
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