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I have learned to pull cards, BEFORE accepting a trade, as others have said..........It just works.

Literally 1000?  I need to know which card it is...

I have done this too. This is how my OCD works.

Billy, I feel your pain. I find one factor for me is that I understand this site better now than when I started entering my cards. I would worry that even with option 2 the detailed process of adding is not fool proof. You really do have to be so careful especially given the numerous parallels of some sets. Worst case scenario, you get to look at your cards again with either option. Decent chance you end up finding something you didn't know you had.

I just offered a guy some recent Donruss cards he needed for his set.  As I was going through my doubles stack to find the cards, I noticed that one was actually a Press Proof SN99 that I missed, probably because I was only looking at the backs for missing numbers.  Billy, as careful as I'm sure you are, it's easy to understand that mistakes do happen when entering large quantities of cards.  I'm surprised at myself for being that careless, but then again, no I'm not.

Stacks are of approximately 100 cards each (I only counted the first stack then simply measured against it - close enough).

Top 3, Kevin Elster RR at 500, Jeff Ballard at 850, and the top guy Mike Deveraux at just shy of 1,400.  Anyone need any to complete their sets?

I found a couple of minor miscuts when I was entering the trade stash originally, but what really helped was in variations and err/cor which I never knew existed. I keep my collection records based on card numbers so if my records showed that I had it, I had it...the I get on here and find out there are other versions. I actually have a 200 count box about 3/4ths full of cards that had variations that I need to check, but I won't do that until I finish scanning everything and get all the sets back into sets. One that I never knew about was the 1992 Traks card where they spelled Musgrave as "Mugrave". As it turned out I have both versions but one was in my trade stash before I entered them back in 2014. Entering them on here is how I discovered there were two versions.

Since I scrutinized both sides of each card checking for flaws before I entered them, finding a missed parallel or error is next to nil, and I'm one of the few people who actually likes parallels so I am always on the lookout for them, lol. 

Whatever I do decide to do, I won't be entering 1992-93 Upper Deck until I finish scanning everything and can check the holograms on them. 

Bruno...that's approaching wallpaper status. The most copies I ever had of one card was I think 86 copies, every one coming from storecollated repacks that I built my collection with back in the mid 90s. Pretty sure I gave them all away over the years but some may still be in my big duplicate stash in my storage unit. I imagine if I could afford to buy collections like I recall you saying that you do, I would see a lot more duplicates coming in. 

Billy, this was all from pretty much one guy's collection. It really shows the over-production of cards in the late 80s and early 90s.

In your last post, you make a very good point on one of the greatest benefits of this site - almost all variations of cards are listed here (some previously unknown ones being discovered along the way by other members). If I had to say what was the #1 attribute of this site I would say that it is every possible card including every single VAR or ERR can befound here, most often with an image to clearly see the difference.  Maybe we aren't there yet but we are way ahead of any other source. No other source I know of provides this. I know when I entered (and still enter) cards in my collection, I check the different VAR listed.  I did find I had some of many. Some I keep; others I don't care which version I have so it goes in the trade list.

Hey all, just a few comments [need to keep my forum posts up,lol] I'm very proud of my HOF induction. OK, here we go!

1. There is no way in hell, I will ever be as organized as you guys. Spreadsheets...yikes! I'm trying but seems every day, I fall back a day. I read every post for good organizing tips, plus a few of my own that will be unveiled sooner or later.

2. Missing cards for trading..HAH..EVERY TRADE I'm missing something! Mostly my fault, just too many cards in too many different places. Ebay, Sportlots etc deals not updated here. Deals outside the transaction manager never updated here. I hate to cast stones, but some large trades I don't even check the incoming cards, Could they have been entered incorrectly and they are now incorrect on my lists? possible! Recently looked for cards for a trade, my list shows 2-3 cards, THINK I CAN FIND THEM, hell no! Thanks to our compassionate members, I'm still alive.....looking for the horses head in my bed every night, lol. My only escape from the "missing trade cards syndrome" is that I have so many and variety of cards, that I can subcard for, and hopefully keep everybody happy. I hope! BTW, and that's still checking the trade before accepting.

3. Redoing the collection mode....NO WAY... I'll be happy when I just get my whole personal collection entered completely and correctly. I also have a habit of tossing in sets, large lots and extra dupes blindly, "I must have all these, put them on the T/S list" mentality. However, with the year and a half reorganizing still full throttle, I have posted the question about multi-IDs and multi-collections---thanks to Dan and Sandy shedding new light, they Got me thinking about that.

Billy and friends, I'm sure I didn't help anybody, other than to say YOU are not alone in TCDB pitfalls of the organizing and trading scene.  yours truly, ~BOB~

Well, I just finished entering all my tradelist in again, as a fresh collection. LOVE that feature. I am now sure that doing it that way was the right move. I found a handful of cards from a set that I had put in the wrong stack, after listing what I thought was everythung already, and entering them was easy- I just went into the listing for the set, clicked the box on the "new" cards, and then used the tool provided to move the cards in my collection into the tradelist. So much easier than what I had been doing before.

The ability to jump from the base set to any inserts or parallels is a great feature, too! I had no idea that existed, but it was quite helpful.

I decided that I would try Bruno's method. I just listed one copy of each card I had available, at least for the most part. I have one card with 24 copies on my tradelist. Don't see the point in listing 24, and I doubt I'll ever be able to trade that many anyway! I was listing them all when I started but it got really boring really fast, so I switched it up during the middle of the 1990-91 NBA season. I took the time to sort the NBA cards numerically, but I didn't with NASCAR. I figure I will sort each set when I get a call for trade for it. It does not happen often so it should not be too bad. Doing it that way means I can get back to doing something that's more fun, like scanning. (Even though everything I have is on here, I'm still scanning my collection in full for my own website/possible posts on Cardboard History/because I have nothing better to do)

I'm ready to begin trading again, if anyone is interested. I didn't use any lists, I went only by cards in hand, so I shouldn't have to tell anyone "I no longer have it" anymore. Although there are already two cards that I shipped out already. I have more than 9000 cards listed available.

Of course, this is only a small fraction of my tradelist. I have entered only about one box for the NBA...I have 7 more boxes full in my storage unit. But I won't be able to prepare and list them until I finish scanning everything and sort my collection back into sets. That's years away, I predict 2021 at the earliest...and probably longer, because I'm the world's worst estimator of time.