Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping
Since 1872 when traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward realized he could eliminate the middleman and sell goods directly to his customers, Americans have had an ongoing love affair with the mail-order catalog, which continues undiminished even in today’s online-driven world. The practical can find deals on furniture and clothing in L.L.Bean and Sears, the extravagant can consider his and hers matching helicopters, windmills, hot-air balloons, and submarines in the Neiman Marcus Fantasy Catalog
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StampManage USA Scott Catalog Stamp Collecting Software
- Save hours of data entry by picking from thousands of complete variety listings of stamps from the USA & US Possessions
- Comprehensive and up-to-date Market Valuations in several grades, including Plate Block and Mint Sheet valuations where applicable.
- Use our amazing eBayT search feature to quickly search current (and completed) auctions by SCOTTT number
- Liberty Street Software is officially licensed to use the SCOTT stamp numbering system
- Catalog your Mint and Used single stamps, Plate Blocks, First Day Covers, PNC Strips and more.
- A great way to find the recent selling price of stamps you wish to sell or buy.
Complete listings for stamps from the United States & US Possessions. Use StampManage USA stamp collecting software to catalog and value US stamp collection. StampManage USA is licensed by SCOTT to use their industry standard numbering system. Includes a huge database of United States stamps, complete with images, all indexed by the industry standard Scott numbering system. Now includes an integrated Report Designer that lets you create your own reports. Reports can now be exported to PDF, Excel
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A good start, but…,
The author obviously loves catalogs, and the trivia and photos are entertaining, but this book is in need of a good editor. Ideas are all over the place (odd, since most catalogs have a “flow” to them), and the misspellings and grammatical errors are annoying.
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|AMAZING, NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF THIS,
This is a trip, in all the right ways. It a hoot. It’s also a trip down memory lane, a voyage through history and a graphic journey into the heartland of Americana. Ms. Cherry writes with style and wit and the illustrations she has chosen tickle my memory banks. I’m buying extra copies to give as gifts. This book is meant to be shared.
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|Like eating ice cream for dinner,
When I was young, we kept the catalogs under a wrought iron table in the tv room. When the alternative was to try to pay attention to Masterpiece Theater, the catalog pile was mighty tempting. Many of the pieces that author Robin Cherry cites are memorable – such as the original, illustrated Banana R catalogs, and the hilarious Peterman catalog. But the truly amazing part is that Cherry puts these ephemeral pieces into a meaningful historical context – the 20th century through mail order. I love this book, it’s fun to read and the trivia included is surprisingly un-trivial.
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|OK application, terrible support,
Overall, StampManage is a reasonably good application for keeping an inventory of your stamp collection. It is fairly easy, if a little tedious, to enter your stamps and provides a number of canned reports. There are some annoying quirks however. It does not provide a very comprehensive list of stamp types in its drop down menu. For example, plate number singles, one of my specialties, is not included. You can type it in, but have to do this for each stamp. There is no way to add to the table. There is no way to import data from another application, even other commercial ones which export data in comma delimited formats. There is no undo function, which can be disastrous. Because of some bugginess in the program it is easy for something to go wrong that can’t be undone without restoring a backup. For example, when trying to enter a range of stamps into a collection by using the normal Windows highlight/shift-click method, it sometimes will select EVERY item previous to the last one in the intended range. Not good if you don’t notice. Such as the time it entered about a thousand unintended stamps into my collection. So, I end up doing constant backups. Some of the canned reports are odd, making me think that whoever designed them is not a collector. For example, one “standard” report seems to print the stamp data in random order, which makes it pretty useless for any purpose.
The worst of it though, is the lack of technical support. They do not respond to repeated emails. They have a technical support forum, but due to what seems to be a bug, I have never been able to get authorized to post to the forum.
I’ll probably keep using the software unless or until I can find something else that suits my needs and allows me to import the data I’ve entered into StampManage. But overall, it’s been a rather disappointing experience.
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|A rip off,
I bought their 2009 software and then bought the 2011 update. When it failed to load I emailed them with the details. After two weeks of emailing and getting no reply I threatened their third party seller. They kept sending me the same software that wouldn’t install. I finally went to PayPal and got my money back. Now the original software doesn’t work and won’t load on my new computer. Forget support. There is none. I tossed it in the garbage. Buyer beware!!!
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|” Great Product But No Support at all “,
I purchased this software after useing it for 3 weeks. It was the best Application for Stamp Collecting that I had ever used. Then I Paid for it and then the Problems began. #1 the Product key they sent me didn’t work and had to e-mail them. #2 I got a new Code and it Didn’t work and I tried to E-Mail them again. #3 I Can Not get anyone from Liberty Street Software to return my E-Mails or My Phone Calls and We are trying to get a Refund. Besides Amazon I have found alot of people who have had the same Problems with this Company. If your reading this and still want to Purchase it, I swear you are not going to be very Happy once Installed. This Software would Be Great if it Worked, But it doesn’t.
Anyone who has had or is Having Problems with StampManage USA 2011 and would like to get Involved in Filing ” FRAUD CHARGES ” can contact me at prescott276@yahoo.com Please only contact me if you are willing to pursue Charges and Shut down ” Paul Dembrowski ” and Liberty Street Software ! Times are tuff and having a Fraudulent Compant Take our money and Never Answer to it is Not Right.
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Mr. Bill Prescott
StampManage USA 2011 Scott Catalog Stamp Collecting Software
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