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I use it religously everyday - and a small percentage actually resulted in trades.

How does it really work? Does it cycle through previous matches if they still exist after a few weeks, or does it only match you up when a new match is found?

Part of my question spurs from a couple of trades I made where literally the next day I'm notified of a match and it's with someone I just agreed to a trade with, but for other cards. Was it because they added them to the their Trade List?

By the way, I'd still like to see a color-coded system to inform us whether a match is one-way or two-way, and whether it's a few cards or many. How does one present a case to Admin?

Send a private message to "Admin", just like any other user name.

I do believe the matches are reported on an hourly basis. I have seen in my alerts notification for yesterday, then when I get to that page, it shows stuff for 9:00-10:00 and 10:00-11:00.

As for showing 2-way deals, before suggested that to Admin, how would you propose that the database would be able to recognize that? (They'll only ask, you might as well give them that info up front.)

No, I realize how often they notify us, either hourly or daily. My question is more about this: Sportzcommish added some '89 Upper Deck cards yesterday that I need and it notifies me of such. A month later I get informed that I match up with Sportzcommish again. Could that be for the same cards or only for a newer match?

Regarding the color coding system, I had suggested something on the messageboard a while back and it's basically to identify matches according to probability. For example: A green button could identify a match where both parties have about the same number of cards on each other's Want List. Then within that you could have Dark Green for 50+ card match, Green for 10-49 card match, and Light Green for 1-9 card match. You could have something similar for significantly unequal matches, yet where both parties have cards on each other's Want List, and another color for matches where there's just one party that either Wants the other's cards while the other has none.

1 - New matches ONLY.

2 - Make that suggestion to Admin. I'm not sure how the database can fire alerts like that myself, but I'm not quite as db saavy as Admin.

Great suggestion. It does get frustrating when trying to find a trade partner using the matches only to ultimately find out this person has nothing in there for sale/trade list or a really small amount of cards you need.  It may be difficult to create this though.