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I was invited here. My main goal was to trade and I did t like having a web sheet I had to type out each card and then delete the card once I traded.  
 

since this site lets people add scans to the cards that are missing the image I decide to go ahead and add my collection here too. With a different intent.  If I look up every card I have to see if an image exists or not I might as well add the card to my collection 

I have about another 60k to add and right now I am adding the T 206 card images I have and then I will go from vintage to now a little at a time 

I cam across the site almost a year ago while looking for a checklist for some hockey set that was just about to be released. Started looking around and after a few days realized what I could do here. Met Bruin72Fan in person in the first week for my first transaction, been logging in almost everyday since then. It's been a great avenue for me to trade and complete sets, and help others finish theirs. Bought a scanner and added a few images already, but most importantly learned about micro-variations and how it affected my 30-year old "completed" sets (working on streamlining those). It's just been a great community and a fun way to pass some time!  

For the free buffet. :)

More seriously, as most of us, I found the site searching for checklists and then I start trading for completing sets and get the cards that I can find around here.

Another Zistle refugee here (still not over that one either), stayed for the collection tracking and eventually got into trading.

I got back into collecting right around the time that Sidney Crosby got drafted by the Penguins.  After that I built a database in Access to track what was in my collection.  A few years later my laptop which had that database went belly up after a thunder and lightning storm.  A new computer later (which has since been replaced) I began searching the internet for a way to track my collection.  The Access file as well as every other file on the old laptop were unrecoverable.

In 2009 I found this site and it was wonderful!  Although at that time there were no forums, no IRs and even no transaction manager.  I spent the next few years uploading checklists and scans in mostly the hockey and soccer areas.

As with many on here sometimes real life gets in the way and I had to take a break.  Although I never left I just wasn't as active.  When I fully returned I was determined to use this wonderful site for what I had originally wanted, track my collection.  So I deleted my collection that I had entered and started from scratch.  I am now very happy with how I have organized my collections and it has made trading very easy for the small amounts of trades I have conducted.

Whelp, that's it I hope everyone enjoys their time here and take care!

I came to this site to help expand my potential trade partners as the other site I had been using (sportscardforum) seemed to be limited in the number of people who were trading vintage cards.

Coming to this site has helped me get my collection organized, and I've been able to become more focused toward collecting goals (e.g. set building).  I am still in the process of getting everythign catalogued, but I know that I had gotten well beyond the point of having any semblance of a clue as to what I actually had in my collection.

It's been a good experience thus far.

I don't know how I found this website but I found it for tracking my collection. I am hoping to start doing my first trades soon!