General Forum

The "Tracking Your Collection" section of the FAQ has much of the information that you seem to be looking for regarding creating a wantlist and tradelist.

The FAQ link is at the bottom right of the page, under "General Info".

https://www.tcdb.com/FAQ.cfm

Not sure if it's better to respond privately, but I'll try here in case it helps other new members.

I presume you've been encouraged to make lists of the cards you'd like to acquire (wantlist) and cards you have available for sale or trade (FS/FT list).  Let's say for instance you own this Ted Williams card and would like to make it available to other interested members:
https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/127650/cid/8522445/1991-Baseball-Cards-Presents-Investor's-Guide-to-Baseball-Cards-1-Ted-Williams
To do so, from the card page linked above, scroll down to the "Collection" section and click the arrow to display a drop-down menu.  From here, you can "Add to Collection" (the default is 'Main Collection'), or add it to your Wantlist.  Cards added to these lists will now be included when working out trades.

There are ways to do this a bit quicker if you'd like to add multiple cards from a set to your list.  You'd click "Collection Summary" from the list of 'Set Links' on the left-hand side, then pick a collection and choose how you want to add cards and to which list (wantlist/FS/FT).

The process is time consuming, no doubt.  But it's worth the time invested, I assure you.  It took me a solid month to create my trade list, inputting thousands of cards into the database to finalize my trade list.  Had to do the same thing with my want list.  Once you get these done, the trades will start pouring in.  Give it time.

Joe

I think like a lot of us.  The site and the way we use it has evolved.

1.  Was only using it to find cards I did not have on my excel file.

2.  Why not list them here instead of an excel file.  I find out I need both.

3.  If I had my collection here, why not my wants.  As I added them, I seen members having them FS/FT why not trade.  I also can point other people to this site for my list of wants instead of having to keep making and changing other lists.

4. If I was wanting to trade/sell, I need to add card to my FS/FT.    Again pointing to this site for my FS/FT list when I'm on other trading sites.  No more lists for each site/person.

5.  The only thing I have not done is add all the cards I have FS/FT to the site.  They are mainly commons of the "Junk era" which members here do want.     There are only a couple of 100 cards here that I need, and I have 1000s of cards listed now on my FS/FT.  I do add some now and then just to get more out there for sale/trade.

NO!!   I did not do this overnight it takes months but IMO it was worth it.   Not only in trading/selling but the members and the knowledge I have gotten for the site.  Even if your collecting is narrow like mine.  There is a lot to learn about card collecting.