Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

Hello, I'm fairly new to TCDB and have never completed a transaction via TCDB. Can you give me some advice as to the common methods and mechanisms users utilize to complete sale transactions? More specifically, if I find another user to sell my card(s) to via "Recent Matches", do users typically then post those cards on eBay and provide the link to that other user to buy the cards that way? Or, use Paypal? Paypal Goods & Services (which I've never used)? Or, another method? Thanks for your help!

If you're looking to sell, you should first contact the other member to ensure that they are actually willing to buy. Many *large majority) of the membership here prefers to trade. Transactions here can go through any one of the methods you described, however having a sale conformed and then listing it on ebay is both risky and costly. (Risky as someone else could buy it before your targeted buyer and costly as you're adding extra fees to your sale.) No sales/trades on here are guaranteed by the site, so the only "protection" you have is your common sense.

Myself and others have posted in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum with links to our ebay items that are trading card related.

Thank you both for your advice!

Your best bet to actually make sales is to enter everything you have for trade / sale into your collection.  Once they are all entered in your collection, post here in the Forums that you are looking to sell.  The members who are into buying on this site will then look to see if you have cards they are interested in.  If they do, they will either make you an offer or ask how much you would be asking for the cards they are interested.  There is no use to bring ebay into the mix.

The problem you may have is that being new here and not having any feedback ratings, some may not risk sending you money on the promise of getting the cards they thought they were buying. You may be asked to ship first and wait for payment once the cards have been received.

I buy a lot when it is priced reasonable. If you hit me with any matches feel free to reach out.

The other thing to look at is if you have a bunch from someones want list you can probably cut them a deal or get a nice trade out of it.

I made a couple of videos for exactly this scenario:

https://youtu.be/ISLJ3gN7XmU

https://youtu.be/_Jixfugb0xo

Saves a lot of typing.  Hope they help.