General Forum

Hi Fellow Card Hobbyist!
This is a first for me as far as logging on to a Card database and reading and posting forums. I Love "The Idea" of listing cards, trading, meeting collectors, building sets, players etc...

 1. When trading, How do people go about Trading? How does the people go about the shipping and how long before they ship it, tracking etc... How long does a person have before its getting a little to long if one already shipped out and the other hasn't. I  havent traded yet but want to and will sooo.

 

The problem is that there aren't all that many regular members here to trade with...and most of the members seem to have everything already, very few people will trade for something they already have. For instance I don't have any of the cards you've been looking for because I don't do baseball. Ergo nothing to trade. I've been on various card forums since 2000...this is by far my favorite. I just completed my first trade this week but I have been on the receiving end of Random Acts of Kindness several times.

I would love to start trading as well, but again, I don't collect baseball either.  I have some that I have received by accident and plenty from my fathers collection.  Those won't go anywhere! (My mother has forbid me from trading any of those cards.  there are plenty of doubles too, but not in great condition.  still, forbid,) Hockey is my main collection and I am working on my star wars cards from the 70's and 80's.  I've got about 400 cards to add to my list but pretty much everything I have is listed if you're interested.

As for shipping and such, I would go by the standard set by my coin site, http://en.numista.com.  Most members there tell others on their profile what their preferences are.  For example, if you look me up there, my profile says that I don't do tracking because of the exorbitant cost Canada has decided to levy on the service. it's 10 bucks to send a light package to the UK and almost 70 to track it. 

I have done plenty of intenational trades within that site and usually I give about 1 month for international trades before I make a hint to complaint.  how my hint is dealt with determines what I say about the trade,  (Don't trade with Italy!  Nothing but issues!  Sluggish, and dishonest postal services,)

With TCDB, I would suggest making an agreement with your trade partner.  he tracks?  You track.  He doesn't wish to, You shouldn't have to.  Depends how much is being shipped, what the believed value is, etc., etc.  Selling would work like E-Bay.  cost of product plus shipping.  No complaints or no trade.

 I've traded with 2 different members here and for my part, I haven't had any issues. 

I may have come across harsh in my message to you TTK but you were pressuring me to skype for crying out loud. I, like whoisrob, have made 2 trades & both have been successful. I honestly would add your collection and start there TTK, so people can assess what you may have that they want. You can't just message someone and say I want these players or these teams and expect me to say "sweet lets skype"...I have no idea what you have & if I'd want any...again though best of luck, sorry you're not finding this site to be a positive experience...

Nothing against TTK, but I checked out that zistle site and randomly selected 1992 Leaf. The prices posted for the cards a crazy prices. Some of the common cards that should be listed around $0.05 was $1 to $5.

Not sure if I'll ever have someone wanting to trade with me, but I'd trust most of the people here for sure. It definitely is a smaller community, but I kinda like that. It's not overrun by kids and thieves.

I like the idea of being able to catalog my collection and have it displayed for anyone to see. Like SaveDaKid said, add your collection to the database and take it slowly. I'm not skyping with anyone either.  One step at a time...

This old post made me laugh.  Five years ago, there were almost no members who traded.  How times have changed...for the better!

What prompted you to pull up this old post?

Just curious.

I find it funny that the original poster was a member for a total of 21 days, has 1 card listed, and started this thread 2 days before his last log-on.