Can you sell 1st class stamps at a profit?

[simon_adams_uk]

Hopefully someone will know the answer straightaway: can you sell 1st class stamps at a profit (ie above face value)? The reason I ask is because the local corner shop owner is insisting he can!

Cheers,
S

 

[alecstilleyedye]

you can buy them at costco at less than full value, then if you sell them on at face value then you can make a profit. otherwise, sounds a bit iffy to me.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Hopefully someone will know the answer straightaway: can you sell 1st class stamps at a profit (ie above face value)? The reason I ask is because the local corner shop owner is insisting he can!

Cheers,
S

Yeah! Because people are stoopid enough to put up with it.

He sounds a bit of an Arkwright to me.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Hopefully someone will know the answer straightaway: can you sell 1st class stamps at a profit (ie above face value)? The reason I ask is because the local corner shop owner is insisting he can!

Cheers,
S

You are William 'D-Fens' Foster and I claim my £5.00

 

[DanBat]

Nope. Have a look at 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 of the Royal Mail T+C for retailers.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content2?catId=54000701&mediaId=54000707

So either grass him up to teh royal mail. Or find out who's selling them to him and grass them up. Or shop somewhere else.

 

[hellenback]

He'll be telling you next that washing lines have gone metric and insisting you have to buy a new one.

"GGGGranville, fetch me one of them new washing lines from the back...."

 

[simon_adams_uk]

Cheers guys.
It's pretty cheeky of the guy but then we are talking about London here!

S

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Shop the cheeky git!

I'm going to shop the cheeky b*st*rd by me, he's selling a Penny Black for £3,000.00.
Talk about marking-up prices.

 

[col]

He probably is the type of shop owner that splits multipacks and sells em individualy,with the "do not sell individualy " printed on them.Im sure the office of fair trading would love to meet him

 

[Keith Oates]

I would have thought that if he was just a corner shop and not a sub post office, he could sell a stamp for whatever price he wanted. If anyone is silly enough to buy it then that's their problem. I would also doubt his parentage but that's a different matter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ufkacbln]

This is a case in Scotlaand, I found on Google.

I was searching for a Portsmouth one from last year, but couldn't find it.

However it does make the point