General Forum

I used to use SCF exclusively, but I found it getting harder and harder to make trades there... too many people focused on modern cards and not enough vintage traders. Also too hard to manage inventory.

I've switched over to TCDB almost exclusively as it's helped me get more organized in my collecting, and the trade manager process is much more user friendly.

The only area I feel SCF out-ranks TCDB is the layout of the forums... SCF is much easier to see threads, subjects, etc.  My feeling is that, if we could merge the forum layout from SCF with everything else on TCDB, TCDB would be the undeniable #1.

I've never gotten much in to any of the other sites mentioned in the OP.

I`ve only been on nascar trading sites. My memory is shot lol so I can`t recall the names of some. I know the last few was sports card sheriff, I believe it`s dead now. The guy who owned SCS bought SCF and moved the nascar forum over there. There was problems from the get go, the nascar traders seemed to be looked down on by the stick and ball guys. On the 3 or 4 boards we were on before the nascar community pretty much ran the boards. We had WAY more trades and activity. 

The core group of nascar traders made our own site NUTS and we moved there. I haven`t logged into my SCF account in 5 or 6 years. I`m a hall of famer on the NUTS site. I log on every couple months to see what`s going on there. Chris who ran the NUTS site started a NUTS facebook page. There are some of the origional NUTS members on there, 7 of us are mods, me included. There are probably a couple thousand members on there now but none of them know what a trade is it`s all buy and sell. I`ve never been much on selling, I`d much rather trade. I did pull a Mark Martin 1/1 book card I sold to a big Martin collector on there for 350.00 . 

Then Billy or Adam, I don`t remember which told me about this site.  I`m content to add scans of cards I have to the site. I do have a few cards on my wantlist but haven`t added much in the way of traders. Most of the stick and ball cards I have left are from around 85 to 90. All of my older cards, I had cards from the 60`s and 70`s I sold off years ago. Never been on beckett or those other sites, I did have a beckett opg for a few years. So now mainly here and the NUTS facebook page, I do check the origional NUTS site every few months.

I occasionally log back into Beckett when researching something (and usually a last resort becaue sooooooooo much of their checklists are wrong). When I am there I scan the forums in Baseball and you can see that maybe 1 person has posted something in the last 2 days. Spaz is dead on about the ineptitude of the people running that site.

nothing compares TCDB! its basically all i use anymore, 

DiecastCrazy.com(DCZ) is an awesome community, Not much for cards but great for diecast and general racing collectibles, great racing discussion and amazing helpful members.

Facebook groups,  most of my buying now is done through facebook groups, I pretty much just stick to Dime sales or will buy a flat rate box of cards. When i make a transaction on a facebook group ill usually ask if they a TCDB SCF or DCZ account and will run a transaction if they do.   If anybody knows anyother pages that have dime football sales other than (tristate, baseball card fires, or house of sportscards) let me know

I used Sportscard forum before i came here, i'll still use it i've got a facebook transaction and we both are members.  There is an aewsome TTM Database on there which i used a ton until i found out how to trade on here.   Didn't really have any luck doing trades but did some buying and selling,  They had a system where if you had  less then 10 transactions or so many bad transaction that person would be required to send first, which i wish was a thing here.  But the over all community wasn't as friendly as it is here.

As far as card related forums, I only use this one.  It's not that I don't like the others, I just don't have a need to use them.  If I had kept collecting in the mid 2000's, I would have more than likely found other forums to join.  Most of my card talk is on here and twitter, which I don't do a lot on there either.  I also haven't talked much on blogs lately, but I've had good conversations on there, but neither are really forums.

I never became a member but I think I've used the Sports Card Forum a few times just to look at their TTM section, but never actually used it.  At this point I'm a little burnt out on cards, but I wouldn't mind a wrestling card forum, that would be kind of cool.  The wrestling news sites I use have never mention cards. In general after a few years, I usually get tired of forums and move on to other sites anyways, but I can probably say the TCDB has been the forum I've used the longest for any in general (including music, wrestling, sports, or any other kind of forums). Even a site I was once a moderator for I didn't stick around as long (then again the site did shut down a few months after I left due to inactivity).