Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

"So 90% of the time it goes back to   "Is this offer good for you" no matter how you figure the offer out."

Exactly. I can't imagine taking one common, checking each of the users who want it and their last login date or likelihood of trading with, verifying how much is on Sportlots and comparing prices, and then going to the next common and doing the same thing over again. Unless the commons are 50 years or more apart, or if a more limited set than the flagship stuff, hopefully a 'good for you' proposal will suffice with the modern stuff since I'd like to think most people here are just trying to add to their various collections.

This is tough because what someone thinks is worth 5 bucks maybe you can get at a card show for .25 or $1 and some commons are worth more than what other commons are worth. 

In perceived reality it only matters what the other trader thinks the values are worth. Some traders may be very off the wall in what they think a value is.

Trading can sometimes be a lot of work or you may not be able to come to a fair deal in every bodies mind

I've always viewed trading, especially of base commons, as the value being in the eye of the beholder.

I have cards you want that I am not attached to and you have cards I want. Let's swap, even if the last dollars and cents don't add up.

Amusingly, I have had trades where I thought, "man I'm getting a great deal here" and when I stumbled across the prices that some of the cards I traded away sell for I probably "lost" and vice versa, where I thought I gave up a bit much, but turns out I didn't, at least in $$ terms. Ultimately, in all trades I add PC cards I want and trade away cards I am not attached to, so that makes a win for me.

The only time I worry too much about prices is if I know a card is worth a bit more, or if the trade partner seems particularly concerned, I have never initiated a trade with them.