meek-investor

In my previous post, I have stopped stamp collecting at about the millennium year (2000). At about 2004, I came to know that ebay-Singapore has started operation.  There is no listing or insertion fees when seller lists in ebay-Singapore, meaning that listing items on www .ebay.com.sg is completely free. However, we have to bear in mind that our items will not be available to the majority of people when they search under www .ebay .com or at other overseas ebay sites.   Potential buyers have to come specifically to www .ebay.com.sg before they can see your listing.  That means your listing is not internationally listed. My thinking was that rather than leaving my stamps in cold storage, why not test the water and see how the selling process works in ebay-Singapore. I have created an eBay-Singapore Seller Account and started listing some of my stamps for sale on eBay-Singapore. To be a good seller, you need to be clear about what you’re selling.  Use a good and s...

You may wonder why stamp collecting has anything to do with passive income.  Let me explain. After I started my "Save at School" Stamps/POSB Saving Account, I developed a liking for those beautiful stamps and began my journey as a stamp collector. Both my parents are from China and we have quite a lot of relatives there.  In those days before the telephone/cellphone era, the only mode of communication between Singapore and China was writing letters. When the letters arrived, I eagerly cut out the stamps from the envelops, soaked the stamps off the papers in water, dried and aired them, then sorted and placed them in a small album.  I was young and had little skills then; and some stamps were inevitably destroyed in the process. Those days we did not have electronic/video/computer games and most of the kids had simple hobbies such as collecting stamps, match boxes, bus tickets (those were colourful unlike the plain ones nowadays), etc. Our gro...