This was so great. I love seeing international postcards some love. Would love more deep dive videos about postcard collecting topics. I just love learning about that. I also would love to know more about how you handle international shipping as a reseller (advice and tips)?
Dan, I was born in Japan and lived in Tokyo with my Japanese mom and American dad until age 7. All of your videos are great but this one was of extra interest for me. Thank you! I have an antique unposted post card from Japan, printed on sepia colored paper showing a war-torn Nagasaki street. Also have a lot of WWI era German postcards. They have been slow movers for me.
Also, being Canadian as I've said before RPPCS make up a fraction of the sales I get on Canadian cards. However, I sell uncommon Chrome cards for 40-100 dollars, a few higher but those are rare. RPPCs now, you are on the money when it comes to the ranges you gave. They range from bread and button to the 300ish range, with some rare exceptions where they go beyond that.
Yes! I was exactly thinking about this the other day, that there is almost no information about foreign postcards and it is a very overlooked area. I live in Europe and I see many undivided back postcards of those countries floating around! Thank you for doing this video!
How about an Isle of man or Great Britain overview. As a postcard and stamp collector I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for the hard work. Some of my favorite postcards and postal history was sent from early missionaries. I passed on an early postcard from the Ivory Coast 6-7years ago at a stamp show. I would not pass on that again.
I really enjoyed watching your video and the link to presentation on Japanese postcards. I picked up a lot of postcards and there were about 50 postcards from Japan, China, and Korea. It’s been difficult researching them. This helped!! Looking forward to the other videos you make! 🙏
I'm new to postcard resale in general and have definitely found some interesting foreign postcards in the first couple batches I've come across, particularly Japan (Korakuen baseball stadium, Haneda Airport with old Pan Am plane) and Sweden (lutefisk drying racks). Nothing crazy expensive but definitely neat. Thanks for the great insight!
Your postcard from Peru was sent to a town where I used to work, St. Helena CA. It’s a wealthy little borough in wine country. I was hoping for a historically significant addressee, but the Noble surname does not ring familiar. Still pretty cool.
I like the long form videos for while I'm working.... maybe a video on how to list postcards faster like do you use templates do you batch them like do a bunch of Linens at the same time, most of us know about the scanner that takes care of pictures quickly but it's the data entry part that sucks, maybe your experience with a virtual assistant have you ever tried that? I think I heard you mentioned it in a video one time, pros and cons video Maybe
From Wikipedia and one of the reasons postcards from the Phillipines are of a lot of interest in the US. /// The Philippines was a U.S. territory from 1898 until July 4, 19461234. Sovereignty passed from Spain to the United States in the 1898 Treaty of Paris1. The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was established in 1902 and was reorganized in 1935 in preparation for later independence2. The Philippines became an autonomous commonwealth in 1935, and the U.S. granted independence in 1946 //// Great video Daniel--I would like to see on my wish list Italy, Poland and Slovenia as countries for a future video.
I just paused the video to comment. You just showed a Kirchaich, Germany postcard. That is the town that my father's great grandfather is from before he came to America. I was able to visit that town. It is a very small town and doesn't show up on all maps, which would make sense why that would be a valuable post card.
Great video! How do you ship internationally? Do you just use ebay's international shipping program? I think it may be expensive for a single postcard. Thanks!
Kinda basic question. Do you just grab a handful of random cards and scan / list them or do you take a specific group (linen, etc.) And scan / list until you are done with all ofthem? I'm acquiring 2-3k of cards, all types, and wanted to get an idea of the best way to get them listed. Of course eventually all will be listed.
Google Translate works alright with some languages but with Asian languages and characters (especially Chinese and Japanese) it has a hard time deciphering the text correctly.
It's funny you posted this video now Dan. (LOL) I just picked up about 21 foreign postcards at a thrift store here in my town. Since I now ship international, I'll be listing those in my store real soon. Great video as always my friend.
I bought a bunch of military group photo post cards from France. Unfortunately this seller uses paper thin envelopes and my envelope was empty. That ended my amazing French collection in one swoop.
so i have many postcards im stumped on or just need help suggestions with different things such as the price as do a lot of other people i suppose and am guessing... What if you had a submission and then us viewers sent you our postcard images and then you made a video every month or two or whatever of cards we sent in and then you looked them up live or already had priced them off camera and talked about them like maybe give tips hints like this person sent me this card and the image is blurry and grainy as if he used a broken lens on a flip phone from 2002 so im not sure but i found a similar ones that seem to depict similar things hey if you sent this please make sure you focus the camera or have someone else take the shot with a steady hand (make fun of in a fun way) im petty sure its not selling do to no one knows what they are looking at... oh i forgot to say that you can help peoples listings so if someone selling PC and this one that one is a RPPC and seems cool but its not selling they can screen shot you the listing and you can critique it and say well this is not an RPPC and the price for this ALBERT TYPE is $20-33 and your price is set at $699 or auction with starting bid at $500 so thats probably why it hasent sold in 4 years also your pics are upside down and the camera is not zoomed in and you have no lighting plus the card is probably 25% of the available space for the photo with your dirty carpet as a background. use a few 60 watt bulb lights to illuminate stuff and don't stand 12 feet away from PC on a latter to take the picture zoom in so that it takes up the entire space with just the card and change the order of the pics so that the first image isnt the most common green 1c franklin stamp as yours is even missing the cornerr ripped torn and obliterated by cancel along with a huge stain of coffee? anyways this that and the other is wrong with your listing not to mention the price images and discription as its not from washingtion state... its the washington monument thats in washington DC!! here for the millionth time this is how you look up the price of a card go to www.... look at card find then type.......scroll sold. if you cannot find exact image go here if you still cant do this if you can how many listed how many sold lalalala $49.99 becuase of this that and the other based off previous sales or no sales at all rare card not really sure you can post it for huge number then steady go down in price every 7-10 days until sold or put up at auction but start the bid at X just in case. next we have another listing of a sold card that was sold in 45 seconds after listing. it was sold for 19.99 now i would have bought this card for $99,999.99 as you can clearly see Babe ruth in game 5 of the world series his rookie year and its unused in mint condition with his autograph and half the teams autograph as well as his homerun ball for that game and picture by same photographer of him hitting the HR and after the game of him signing your postcard and baseball where you can clearly see the same glitch in the baseball so it proves it to be authentic. listen "NEVER SELL STUFF YOU DONT KNOW" THATS WHY WE DO THIS... this makes me want to cry as you sold this 18 days ago and right now its being auctioned by Christies with 145 bids 2 days left and its already up to $685,000 dollars. I have failed when i hear about things like this. you most definetly undersold it and should have just taken the hit and not mailed it out as that was your nest egg your everything you ever needed for the next several decades. im literally crying right now as why couldnt you have bad pics or title or images out of order or even grainy cant see. next okay this card is a great card example okay so this one will stump a lot of people so lets do it here live okay last 5 comps within 60 days all say under $20 but this was a case of follow the leader. its a very rare card that goes for 250-350 but there was not a sold for 3 years so someone posted it without any key words at all on auction and got one bid for 15 dollars then another person looked it up and saw it sold for 15 and posted it at 15 and it sold as buy it now then here came two more people who saw the two comps for 15 so one went 10 and the other went 19.99 and both sold free shipping... this is why you cant just see a few comps recent and quick list unless you want to be the guy who sells authentic BILLY THE KID RPPC for $8 dollars when its worth a few million or like the person my viewer which im considering a career change as i must be doing something wrong as they just sold the GREAT BAMBINO for under $20 free shipping then realized that they sorta undersold it yet still decided to mail it to them anyways not wanting a bad review. so these are the good the bad and the ugly and the notable submissions. so the most valuable card sent in was priced at $xx.xx i would probably put extra 30% higher as you have the only one listed and a much better condition being unused mint as the highest selling one was ripped and bent along with stains and chicken scratch writing with cancel bleeding to the front. if anything run a sale for 15% off after 21 days then again if needed but it will sell for full price. the least was this 2018 postcard reprint that just says Hey! um this card in a stack of 300 sells for .99 cent yet you only have one so id just mail it use it now these are the takeaways ABCD and E average on the 55 sent in was a $12 price per card based on valuable. next week its only linen card subs with a limit of 2 cards front and back good images clear and viewable or submission will be skipped and made fun of in honorable mentions at end of video of what not to do. THIS IS THE VIDEO YOU SHOULD DO!! pretty sure you would gain many more views subs likes and such as giving us newbs the chanvce to impress you or to get value as they are not lazy just dont know how despite you having 24 vids showwing how to. anyways like in school when people ask for help they dont try fail and need help... they say can i copy your entire page and never try as can you help me basically means do it for me. also any video that shows how you log your collection online in excel or even take and make your own research log of can only guess saving ebay comps for future use when they no longer are available might be useful but paying for it might be best based off work unless you just save the images as it shows only first pic but definetly how to log and have collection so you know what you got and whats selling for the most money for personal data.
This was so great. I love seeing international postcards some love. Would love more deep dive videos about postcard collecting topics. I just love learning about that.
I also would love to know more about how you handle international shipping as a reseller (advice and tips)?
UK in general is also not bad. I have listed over 700 rppcs from the UK and England in the past few months and sold over 100 of them already.
Dan, I was born in Japan and lived in Tokyo with my Japanese mom and American dad until age 7. All of your videos are great but this one was of extra interest for me. Thank you! I have an antique unposted post card from Japan, printed on sepia colored paper showing a war-torn Nagasaki street.
Also have a lot of WWI era German postcards. They have been slow movers for me.
Also, being Canadian as I've said before RPPCS make up a fraction of the sales I get on Canadian cards.
However, I sell uncommon Chrome cards for 40-100 dollars, a few higher but those are rare.
RPPCs now, you are on the money when it comes to the ranges you gave.
They range from bread and button to the 300ish range, with some rare exceptions where they go beyond that.
Yes! I was exactly thinking about this the other day, that there is almost no information about foreign postcards and it is a very overlooked area. I live in Europe and I see many undivided back postcards of those countries floating around! Thank you for doing this video!
How about an Isle of man or Great Britain overview. As a postcard and stamp collector I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for the hard work. Some of my favorite postcards and postal history was sent from early missionaries. I passed on an early postcard from the Ivory Coast 6-7years ago at a stamp show. I would not pass on that again.
Check out this awesome presentation to learn more about Japanese postcards: th-cam.com/video/45DsG_rNI6o/w-d-xo.html
So informative- 🙏
I really enjoyed watching your video and the link to presentation on Japanese postcards. I picked up a lot of postcards and there were about 50 postcards from Japan, China, and Korea. It’s been difficult researching them. This helped!!
Looking forward to the other videos you make! 🙏
Thanks for making the video .. I love seeing and learning more about old foreign postcards ..
I'm new to postcard resale in general and have definitely found some interesting foreign postcards in the first couple batches I've come across, particularly Japan (Korakuen baseball stadium, Haneda Airport with old Pan Am plane) and Sweden (lutefisk drying racks). Nothing crazy expensive but definitely neat. Thanks for the great insight!
I always liked foreign RPPCs and hand tinted cards
Your postcard from Peru was sent to a town where I used to work, St. Helena CA. It’s a wealthy little borough in wine country. I was hoping for a historically significant addressee, but the Noble surname does not ring familiar. Still pretty cool.
I like the long form videos for while I'm working.... maybe a video on how to list postcards faster like do you use templates do you batch them like do a bunch of Linens at the same time, most of us know about the scanner that takes care of pictures quickly but it's the data entry part that sucks, maybe your experience with a virtual assistant have you ever tried that? I think I heard you mentioned it in a video one time, pros and cons video Maybe
From Wikipedia and one of the reasons postcards from the Phillipines are of a lot of interest in the US. /// The Philippines was a U.S. territory from 1898 until July 4, 19461234. Sovereignty passed from Spain to the United States in the 1898 Treaty of Paris1. The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was established in 1902 and was reorganized in 1935 in preparation for later independence2. The Philippines became an autonomous commonwealth in 1935, and the U.S. granted independence in 1946 //// Great video Daniel--I would like to see on my wish list Italy, Poland and Slovenia as countries for a future video.
I just paused the video to comment. You just showed a Kirchaich, Germany postcard. That is the town that my father's great grandfather is from before he came to America. I was able to visit that town. It is a very small town and doesn't show up on all maps, which would make sense why that would be a valuable post card.
Great detailed video Daniel!
If you do how do you approach opening bids up to international buyers? Thanks love your vids
Hi, do all countries have "Carte Postale"? I inherited a lot of cards with those words.
Thank you for the excellent video!
Great video! How do you ship internationally? Do you just use ebay's international shipping program? I think it may be expensive for a single postcard. Thanks!
Love this! Thank you!
Kinda basic question. Do you just grab a handful of random cards and scan / list them or do you take a specific group (linen, etc.) And scan / list until you are done with all ofthem? I'm acquiring 2-3k of cards, all types, and wanted to get an idea of the best way to get them listed. Of course eventually all will be listed.
Google Translate works alright with some languages but with Asian languages and characters (especially Chinese and Japanese) it has a hard time deciphering the text correctly.
Such a great video!
It's funny you posted this video now Dan. (LOL) I just picked up about 21 foreign postcards at a thrift store here in my town. Since I now ship international, I'll be listing those in my store real soon. Great video as always my friend.
Hi Daniel, can you share the link for Japan postcards you mentioned.
Yes here it is: th-cam.com/video/45DsG_rNI6o/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3BXFDsSdn15NYKfi
@@mailseum great video. So much info, need to watch it several times.
I bought a bunch of military group photo post cards from France. Unfortunately this seller uses paper thin envelopes and my envelope was empty. That ended my amazing French collection in one swoop.
Oh nooooo!! Devastating!
I HAVE SOME OF THOSE CHINESE WRITING CARDS ....THEY R FUZZY ..I THOUGHT THEY WERE FAKES
so i have many postcards im stumped on or just need help suggestions with different things such as the price as do a lot of other people i suppose and am guessing... What if you had a submission and then us viewers sent you our postcard images and then you made a video every month or two or whatever of cards we sent in and then you looked them up live or already had priced them off camera and talked about them like maybe give tips hints like this person sent me this card and the image is blurry and grainy as if he used a broken lens on a flip phone from 2002 so im not sure but i found a similar ones that seem to depict similar things hey if you sent this please make sure you focus the camera or have someone else take the shot with a steady hand (make fun of in a fun way) im petty sure its not selling do to no one knows what they are looking at... oh i forgot to say that you can help peoples listings so if someone selling PC and this one that one is a RPPC and seems cool but its not selling they can screen shot you the listing and you can critique it and say well this is not an RPPC and the price for this ALBERT TYPE is $20-33 and your price is set at $699 or auction with starting bid at $500 so thats probably why it hasent sold in 4 years also your pics are upside down and the camera is not zoomed in and you have no lighting plus the card is probably 25% of the available space for the photo with your dirty carpet as a background. use a few 60 watt bulb lights to illuminate stuff and don't stand 12 feet away from PC on a latter to take the picture zoom in so that it takes up the entire space with just the card and change the order of the pics so that the first image isnt the most common green 1c franklin stamp as yours is even missing the cornerr ripped torn and obliterated by cancel along with a huge stain of coffee? anyways this that and the other is wrong with your listing not to mention the price images and discription as its not from washingtion state... its the washington monument thats in washington DC!! here for the millionth time this is how you look up the price of a card go to www.... look at card find then type.......scroll sold. if you cannot find exact image go here if you still cant do this if you can how many listed how many sold lalalala $49.99 becuase of this that and the other based off previous sales or no sales at all rare card not really sure you can post it for huge number then steady go down in price every 7-10 days until sold or put up at auction but start the bid at X just in case. next we have another listing of a sold card that was sold in 45 seconds after listing. it was sold for 19.99 now i would have bought this card for $99,999.99 as you can clearly see Babe ruth in game 5 of the world series his rookie year and its unused in mint condition with his autograph and half the teams autograph as well as his homerun ball for that game and picture by same photographer of him hitting the HR and after the game of him signing your postcard and baseball where you can clearly see the same glitch in the baseball so it proves it to be authentic. listen "NEVER SELL STUFF YOU DONT KNOW" THATS WHY WE DO THIS... this makes me want to cry as you sold this 18 days ago and right now its being auctioned by Christies with 145 bids 2 days left and its already up to $685,000 dollars. I have failed when i hear about things like this. you most definetly undersold it and should have just taken the hit and not mailed it out as that was your nest egg your everything you ever needed for the next several decades. im literally crying right now as why couldnt you have bad pics or title or images out of order or even grainy cant see. next okay this card is a great card example okay so this one will stump a lot of people so lets do it here live okay last 5 comps within 60 days all say under $20 but this was a case of follow the leader. its a very rare card that goes for 250-350 but there was not a sold for 3 years so someone posted it without any key words at all on auction and got one bid for 15 dollars then another person looked it up and saw it sold for 15 and posted it at 15 and it sold as buy it now then here came two more people who saw the two comps for 15 so one went 10 and the other went 19.99 and both sold free shipping... this is why you cant just see a few comps recent and quick list unless you want to be the guy who sells authentic BILLY THE KID RPPC for $8 dollars when its worth a few million or like the person my viewer which im considering a career change as i must be doing something wrong as they just sold the GREAT BAMBINO for under $20 free shipping then realized that they sorta undersold it yet still decided to mail it to them anyways not wanting a bad review. so these are the good the bad and the ugly and the notable submissions. so the most valuable card sent in was priced at $xx.xx i would probably put extra 30% higher as you have the only one listed and a much better condition being unused mint as the highest selling one was ripped and bent along with stains and chicken scratch writing with cancel bleeding to the front. if anything run a sale for 15% off after 21 days then again if needed but it will sell for full price. the least was this 2018 postcard reprint that just says Hey! um this card in a stack of 300 sells for .99 cent yet you only have one so id just mail it use it now these are the takeaways ABCD and E average on the 55 sent in was a $12 price per card based on valuable. next week its only linen card subs with a limit of 2 cards front and back good images clear and viewable or submission will be skipped and made fun of in honorable mentions at end of video of what not to do. THIS IS THE VIDEO YOU SHOULD DO!! pretty sure you would gain many more views subs likes and such as giving us newbs the chanvce to impress you or to get value as they are not lazy just dont know how despite you having 24 vids showwing how to. anyways like in school when people ask for help they dont try fail and need help... they say can i copy your entire page and never try as can you help me basically means do it for me. also any video that shows how you log your collection online in excel or even take and make your own research log of can only guess saving ebay comps for future use when they no longer are available might be useful but paying for it might be best based off work unless you just save the images as it shows only first pic but definetly how to log and have collection so you know what you got and whats selling for the most money for personal data.