I have food stamps for sale. Does anyone know a good place to sell them. I first time I put them on eBay I had many bids but they canceled my listing. I put them back on but now no bids or watchers what do I do.
Apparently eBay still does not allow food stamps to be sold on their site. You may try selling them here in the Open forum (which you can do once you have 10 posts).
It was illegal to sell them. Now it is legal. eBay just hasn't caught up yet and changed their policy.
Years ago in the 1970"s I used food stamps. I still have a load of food stamp covers.Might have some dollar food stamps also.The only problem is they are behind about 20 years of stuff put up in the attic. maybe one day I should get up there and try to clean out the stuff.
If I'm not mistaken, I read somewhere that the Federal Govt went to debit cards for food stamps back in 2004. So that would make the old food stamps that are actually still stamps, collectibles and thus legal to sell.
It was not the introduction of the EBT card in 2004 that made USDA food coupons legal to possess if not on the program. The USDA amended their rules in July 2009 to remove the authorization for the use of the paper coupons and thereby demonetized them.
I remember when that thread was posted... it does make for an interesting read. What I can't understand is why so many CT members are pro-eBay on this issue, while being anti-eBay on almost all other issues.
Not much, but it is paper (or a reasonable facsimile thereof), and it's in the paper money section. And it was used just like paper money at one time (sort of like traveler's checks for the less fortunate).
So are they actually worth anything? My mom and I were going through stuff from when I was a kid and found a few of them from the early 80's and I was teasing that she should go try to use them. She'd definitely enjoy a laugh if they were actually worth something.
I would have never thought that there would be a premium for old food stamps. Other than being something from out past, they really don't hold the same historic value as currency.
That is the irony of the collector market for them today. In the old days, people on the program often "sold" their coupons for about half face in order to get money to spend on prohibited items like cigarets and alcohol. Those same coupons are going for 2-3x face now as collectors items. I understand the attraction to collectors of US paper money. They were printed by the BEP and the other large banknote printers. They have date and series varieties, serial numbers, replacements, dollar denominations, etc. Modern small size notes do not have great "historic value" yet they have a large collector base.
i collect paper stamps and food staqmp if anyone want to let a few go.. ill give you 50 cents to the dollar
Considering Food Stamps are going for between 5-10x face on the collectors market, I don't think you will get many takers.
