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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2015 18:27:28 GMT
Sell the bugs you collect locally, that is one way to raise cash. I also put any change I have in my pockets into a jar, it is not missed, I also save every £2 coin that comes my way, it is called buying specimens without credit cards.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 27, 2015 18:50:38 GMT
"£2 coin" ?? I must be out of touch with the UK, as I thought there was a £1 coin. Is this £2 coin new, or did I just miss the introduction?
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Post by nomad on Oct 27, 2015 19:00:17 GMT
Adam, the £2 pound coin has been here for ages-years.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2015 19:09:16 GMT
It is surprising just how quickly money mounts up this way without touching the family finances at all. I have got to the stage now where my wants list is very small but it just means I have the funds to purchase that once in a lifetime rarity with the bonus of no complaints from the wife or kids, no credit card bill to pay, just pay for it and start saving for the next one.
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Post by nomad on Oct 27, 2015 19:35:04 GMT
Specializing is the best option as it enables you to invest strongly on a specific genus/family. I personally also resell some specimens/species that I have in extra-numbers in order to reinvest in my collection. Then, if not sufficient, you can also tell your wife and kids that they should stop spending money for useless things... so that you can keep on buying some bugs ! ;-) #senseofpriority I am afraid that specializing in a certain group or family does not always help with the bank balance. Almost without exceptions, all families have their rarities which every collector wants. Sometimes, if you want a rarity that badly, you must be either be prepared to go without or shed the cash. Exchanges are also a good way to acquire other rarities but then you need to find something equally special that the other collector wants. There will always be certain specimens that are never going to become available at a lower price. If the demand is there the price will always remain high.
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Post by terry2014 on Oct 27, 2015 21:27:14 GMT
There is a third option,be patient and wait. If you are in the right place at the right time good things happen.Ask Dunk he will confirm it. Terry.
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Post by Paul K on Oct 28, 2015 3:50:42 GMT
Years ago I quite smoking just to save $10 daily for Morphos genus which I wanted to specialize in. It worked pretty good in the beginning. I stopped smoking and bought for that cash few specimens, but after that some other more important things came as priority ( house and family ) and my great idea cooled down .
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Post by nomad on Oct 28, 2015 6:06:44 GMT
There is a third option,be patient and wait. If you are in the right place at the right time good things happen.Ask Dunk he will confirm it. Terry. Trouble with that idea is that certain species have only ever been collected by very few persons who have made into those places and waiting is fine but I not going to live forever, the years are rolling on. If a kindly entomologist wishes to sell me Delias from Papua that I need for my collection, do not hesitate to contact me, or if they are even kinder, please donate them, as this will further help with my monthly bank balance. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2015 11:16:52 GMT
True Terry, but patience is sometimes in short supply with these young ones. Peter is right, as you get older and become more aware of time, or lack of it a certain urgency is required, but as I stated before my wants list is quite small now, I still have a few British to get, a few exotics but I can go to a fair these days just to catch up as 99% of the things there are of little interest to me, but then I'm very lucky to have the friends and contacts that I have, if I were a young entomologist starting out today, and had to pay full market value for the specimens I have then I dread to think what state my finances would be in, the colour would certainly not be black.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 28, 2015 15:20:42 GMT
Adam, the £2 pound coin has been here for ages-years. Last time I was in the UK (in 2006) I had to go to a bank to exchange my old paper money for valid currency, as my old bank notes were all out of circulation and nobody would accept them. I don't remember a £2 pound coin then. Mind you I remember the old thruppenny bit, sixpence and shillings from when I was a kid, but then they introduced decimal currency.
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Post by leon on Jun 19, 2016 14:25:41 GMT
If you restrict yourself to buying locally you'll save a great deal in postage. I just got a pair of coleoptera from Russia. I was happy to get them, but the postage cost twice as much as the beetles. From now on, I think I'll only get specimens from the US where I live. If I have to wait, I'll wait.
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