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The Contenders

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. 

Where can you buy and sell stamps online? The obvious answer, the first one that pops 
into mind, is the same as for almost anything else: eBay. It's become a major factor in 
stamp collecting. Nothing else online -- or maybe anywhere -- compares in volume -- the 
number of stamps for sale, the number of customers.

But there are several sites that are trying to get at least a piece of the action for 
themselves. They see themselves as offering more emphasis on stamp collecting, and having 
more of a feel for what stamp collectors want.

One of them is StampWants-dot-com, 
which has the backing of some well-known stamp dealers.

"We actually want to be the number-one place online to buy and sell stamps, and we think that 
we can do that."
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...says StampWants C-E-O Mark Rosenberg. To draw attention to the site, StampWants is giving 
away one of the famous inverted airplane stamps.

Another contender is Stamps-to-go-dot-com -- with the numeral two. Unlike eBay and StampWants, 
Stamps-to-go only has fixed-price sales, no auctions. It also handles the payments, and requires
 PayPal.

And a third is stamp-store-dot-org, run by the American Philatelic Society, the national 
stamp collecting organization. Again, fixed prices, but the material is guaranteed by the A-P-S.

There's material -- and customers -- on each of the sites not found on the others.

I'm Lloyd de Vries of The Virtual Stamp Club. For more about stamps and stamp collecting, 
visit virtual-stamp-club-dot-com.	 

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The Contenders

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. 

Where can you buy and sell stamps online? The obvious answer is EBay. Nothing else online -- 
or maybe anywhere -- compares in volume.

But there are several sites that are trying to get at least a piece of the action. They say 
they have more of a feel for what stamp collectors want.

One of them is well-financed StampWants-dot-com.

"We actually want to be the number-one place online to buy and sell stamps, and we think that 
we can do that."
RUNS :04

...says C-E-O Mark Rosenberg. To draw attention, StampWants is giving away one of the famous 
 inverted airplane stamps.

Another contender is Stamps-to-go-dot-com. Unlike eBay and StampWants, Stamps-to-go only has 
fixed-price sales, no auctions. It also handles the payments.

And a third is stamp-store-dot-org, run by the American Philatelic Society, the national stamp 
collecting organization. Again, fixed prices, but the material is guaranteed by the A-P-S.

There's material -- and customers -- on each of the sites not found on the others.

And that's Stamp Collecting this week. I'm Lloyd de Vries, CBS News. 

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