Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

It's been my experience on TCDB that most of the offers I receive are leaning heavily my way in quantity but not necessarily in value. That doesn't mean I take them to be offensive offers, I am the one that wants to fill in my "lost years" which unfortunately are the over produced years. I am a team collector in baseball and basketball, team and set collector in football. Either way I was attracted to this hobby opening packs 25 years ago and still enjoy it today, this is how I build my collections. I open packs, put what fits in my collection in the database, list the "star" players, parallels, inserts and sp's on my trade list in hopes of trading for items off my want list. I regularly get the 25-30 1989 Donruss for 5 2016 Heritage high numbers, mainly because my want list is loaded with that era cards and my trade list is mostly the latter, to me I'm helping them and they're helping me. I do however get occasional offers that are card for card, just they want 5 sp's for 5 '92 bowmans, mostly by id's that I never see posting or commenting about anything. I counter and they decline and I normally never see that Id again. This site has a great core group of users, but anywhere people are doing good things someone will undoubtedly try to screw it up. Long story short, its better to decline disrespectful offers than to disrespect my bank account buying $.05 singles for $.50 plus shipping somewhere else. Besides who doesn't end up with all the best cards of teams/players they can't stand? If you're honest you'll offer an honest trade and hopefully we're all educated enough to simply starve the scammers out.

Bob,

Don't get me wrong.  I rarely pull out the price guide to see equity. Most traders on this site usually make it favourableto the recipient so as to guarantee a most probable "accept" and getthe cards they wish for. But some stink right from first glance, usually when someone wants vintage era cards for 80s or newer.

I think most trades lean in value to who wants it less. Another words, if the person wants what you have to offer, more so than what you are recieving, the trade will usually go lopsided in your favor. If it's the other way around, you usually give up more to make sure the trade goes through so you get what you really want. It's simply supply and demand, that's all.

Honestly...I don't see a problem with what was done here. You'll never know if you don't ask...and how did the asker know if they were good cards or if they had been put in bicycle spokes, or spent time under water, which in that case he would have been getting the short end of the stick?

I prefer to trade equal number of cards for equal number of cards, but it doesn't HAVE to be that. I've traded extremely lopsided in the past, and I've also traded autographs for a checklist card. Simply put, I wanted the checklist more than I wanted the dupliacte autographs.

I make it very clear that I will only trade duplicates. Any card I get is part of my collection and is NOT available. Yet, I get asked at least every other month if I will sell parts of my collection...the answer is always no, but I don't begrudge the people for asking...one guy even blocked me on Facebook because I wouldn't sell him one of my cards, and at least one other has cut me off his friends list...their loss.  

I think the key is to be considerate of the other persons time as well. If the other person has something you want and you do not have anything on their wantlist a simple "Hey I noticed you have these and I am interested. I don't seem to have any on your wantlist. Are you interested in any of my FS/T list?". Communication goes a long way. I have had several members take that approach with me.

I look forward to getting back in to trading within a month or two. I had to pull my FS/T list for a while as I was always slower to respond than I would like due to other life demands. 

This is a bit off topic, but I have been thinking about saying something since the beginning of this thread. And that is- I am receiving more and more messages from members wanting to sell cards to me. It is at a point now where I just delete the messages and no longer reply to solicitors.  Is there not a button to click, stating whether or not I want to receive offers from sellers? 

I too have received this kind of offer, totally unsolicited.I don't buy cards here, nor on ebay anymore. I wish we could decline those without having to see them.  As well, it would really be nice if we could block other members from making offers. Yes I received another one from everyone's favourite scammer.  Delete and block this individual from this site!