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This topic comes up often, the last I reread was this one http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/B/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=1272, but I am now frustrated with two deals - not with the partners, but with the way it works, or causes more work to accurately inventory the collection on our site. Presently I have two trades that have been agreed to and "In Progress" and the sequence to transfer cards between parties was not followed in one case causing inventory issues on my end, and was followed in another, but still causing another inventory issue.

I really want to reiterate that this post is not aimed at anyone, but rather at the way the process is set up technically.

Trade #1 - My trade partner didn't show the cards being sent, but I received them and followed the sequence, and the cards show up in my collection AND on want list. I informed him that I believed he needed to follow the sequence and he updated his end to show "Package Sent". Now I'm showing the cards "In Transit" twice. I'm not sure what they show on his end. One thing I did last night was begin to remove the cards from the "Want List", but didn't get to all of them. Those only show one card "In Transit".

• The solution to this one was to have followed the sequence, but even so, I believe if I'd have waited for my partner to have logged his part as "Package Sent" first, before me beating him to the punch and logging mine as "Package Received" this problem wouldn't have occurred.

Trade #2 - The sequence was followed, but the cards from either side (on my end) are not showing in either "In Transit", "For Sale", or "Want List", and we did use Method 2 to trade, to where the cards are added to the transaction by the system. This trade also is still "In Progress". This one baffles me more because I believe we followed all the steps.

I'm hesitant to simply begin clicking to fix this because I'm concerned that I'll mess things up more until both parties have their cards and have shown the trade completed. (Which I'm about to do on Trade #1 as I've just received a notification that my cards were received by my partner. I'll add what transpired on the "In Transit" cards.) *Nothing happened to the cards I received - they're still showing either as "In Transit" once for those I removed from the Want List, or twice for those I didn't get to.

The current process for trades using Method 2 is this:

1. Accepted
   • Card status is unaffected and they remain in either "Trade" or "Want" lists
2. Package Sent
   • Cards go into "In Transit" with no distinction as to coming or going
3. Package Received
   • Cards transferred from "In Transit" to "Collection" or removed entirely depending on which way cards were going
4. Transaction Completed

I'm not sure what to do, but the issue is that our inventory is significantly at the control of another's full and sequential participation in the system, and I don't like that headache. I don't know if it's as simple (tech guys are smiling irritably) as setting up distinct "In Transit" categories, or adding a drop-down option of "Transfer Cards to Collection". I'd like some improvement made, though. All suggestions welcomed.

I agree and your last point made me think that what if, only our control of the sequence updated our lists?  Then we would not be at the mercy of the other guy following the sequence.  

I don't normally pay too much attention to my in-transit list, but since I have a current trade going with Sportzcommish, I thought I should check to make sure that I was doing my part in my current transactions (I have 3 in progress). My in-transit list is almost correct but I do have two cards that appear in-transit that aren't part of any of my current transactions.

It would be nice if their was a way to see which transaction the in-transit cards are a part of. I think one of the cards in my in-transit list is part of a trade that was completed a couple weeks ago. It was a large trade and all the other cards from that transaction are correctly listed in my collection. I don't know if I had another trade with this same card or if this card is part of the more recent transaction.

If we could identify the transaction, it would make it easier to update the status of the card by reviewing completed transactions. I'm not sure if I explained that very well.

Also, sometimes I add extra cards to a transaction. Sometimes it's to make up for a card in poor condition and sometimes I know my trade partner needs/wants a certain card/player/team and I just want to give them a pleasant surprise. It would be nice to be able to add/swap cards once a transaction has been accepted by both parties. It's not a big deal, but it would make management a little smoother.

If everyone followed steps 1-4 in order there wouldn't be a problem at all. At the same time, "Transaction Complete" should automatically register as "package received" too, even if it wasn't marked first.

I also agree that having some way to tell what "in-transit" cards were in what trade proposal would be extremely helpful. I mean, what's the point of having a number for every trade proposal, if that number is ONLY used to mark the # of trades done on the site? If the cards are still in the In-Transit folder, they should have the trade # listed with them.

I think it would be helpful if our cards could be marked during the proposal process to pull them out of availability for sale/trade and off the want lists. Recently, I had two simultaneous offers with many of the same cards on both ends. The real problem I had was that I only had one card for trade. It is a hassle to have to check each offer for duplicates before accepting them. I also noticed some cards still appear on my want lists that are from completed trades.