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I would also love the feature PnP mentioned. I'd be able to do trades much faster that way. I have yet to initiate a trade b/c it's so much work just to start one, but I certainly would trade more if I could view everything they have on my wantlist at once instead of by set.

I have done many trades on here now, but all offers were sent to me first. I love trading on here but I do wish it was simpler to get started with an offer. Especially when someone has way more of my wants than I have of their wants. It would be nice to be able to quickly pick out just the ones I am most interested in owning.

Trading on here has gotten MUCH better (faster, easier and more organized) just since I joined a few years ago, but that suggestion would make it the best trading platform available online.

Showing all matches has been tried out in the past and the biggest issue was page load times.  There are members with 50,000-100,000 items on their wantlist and the page would take several minutes to load as it matched that many records in the background and generated the report.

Collection matching was almost actually removed as an option because it was bogging down the site as a whole, but then breaking it down by set helped make it a manageable prospect.  Worst case scenario, someone has a whole set on their wantlist and is matching it against someone else with the whole set and there are only a few hundred entries being compared as opposed to someone matching the 50,000 items on their for sale / trade list to someone else with 100,000 items on their wantlist.

If everyone had small wantlists and for / sale lists, then it would be no problem, but that’s not realistic and whatever solution is in place has to be able to work for all members regardless of list sizes without affecting other aspects of the site.

Perhaps if after adding items to the transaction it didn’t bring you all the way back to the transaction, but brought you to the list of sets, this would help speed things up?

Absolutely, yes. 

The option that i use to avoid the 6 clicks is to just hit the back button twice (after you have added cards from one set to the trade) which should take you back to the matched sets page and then select the next set.  this is way quicker and has worked successfully on dozens of trades for me.

Low-tech solution, available today, and should work as well.

I'm always afraid doing that will null/void whatever the last thing I clicked was. Glad to hear that it doesn't!