General Forum

My wantlist is very specific to the one and only set I am building. 2019 Topps Heritage Baseball. My FSFT list has many cards on it with a fairly wide variety. It has gotten harder to complete the set as I get closer to the finish line. I'm very open to getting proposals and counters are always welcomed.  

I do various searches to find potential trades.

One of them I will take a random insert in my For Trade list and look for members who have it on their wantlists. Then do trade matching with those members and sometimes that works.

If I want to work on  a specific set, I will click on "Members who have cards from this set to trade" pick the ones that have the highest number and trade match those members. 

The members who I have listed as "friends" I will periodically run a trade match with them.

There are probably more ways that I've used that I can't think of right now. The nice thing is these searches take a relatively short amount of time. If I'm waiting for my kids to get done with school or at the doctors office, I'm on my phone anyway. 

The hardest thing to do is list all of the cards I have for trade. I rarely have a hour to just sit and list cards, I'm sure if I did I would make many more bigger trades.

Just poked around your wantlists to see if there's anything I own but haven't listed FS/FT.  Unfortunately no matches

Everybody should certainly collect and use this site in whatever way works best for them, but of course it's a longshot to find trade matches on cards SN5 or less.  No harm in asking of course, but personally I wouldn't prioritize listing cards FS/FT for which I expect there is a hyper-niche market (I realize there's no harm in listing those either, but I never seem to be able to find the time).

Thanks for looking.  dilemma19  and all the others that I know that are keeping an eye out for me.

As far as looking for matches I use:

1.  Trading Matches    (the 2-way match)

2.  Recent Matches     (Wants)  

3.  Match items on your Wantlist with items on other members' For Sale / Trade lists Report.   This gives me all the sets that I have matches of cards in them.  (142 sets today) which most sets have only one card in them.    My issue with using this is you have to go down to the card level to find out if the sellers are active.   Years ago I asked Admin about being able to sort for active members higher up (set level) and his reply was "Not possible at this time"   By using this I find members that are active have cards for me, and I do not have cards for them.   The recent matches should show them if I do not remove them after I keep getting no replies.

i try to inventory all my cards.  goal has been to refine my collection so trading away a much was fine.  as a mariners fan, in the long run i don’t need 5 Robin Yount cards…so just my favs are kept.

ive had different set goals like seattle pilots but i got distracted with side quests, which are usually pretty fun.  just means i delay my pilots set building.

but the trade matching under the reports is helpful as is going by rhr mentions for any chase cards i have and see who has that card for trade who is active and wants something i have.  

good luck!