Congratulations to TCDB for now having over 100,000 completed trades! I just took a look at the 'Completed Transactions' link at the bottom of the page to see when my first transaction was. I was trade #8 completed on this site on 10/24/2014 (ID#131). There were 34 trades completed yesterday (10/18/2021) which brought the total 100,016. What an amazing accomplishment! I'm closing in on 800 completed trades and I know that while I was an early trade leader back in 2014-2016, I've been blown away by some who are closing in on 3,000 completed trades. I'm all the way down to #21 on the leader board which is A-OK with me.
I'm still working on my trade totals as I suspect it has been well over 10,000 cards sent and received. I'll put up my numbers another time when I'm done adding up all 800 trades.
I do want to say a big thank you to Admin for making such a wonderful site and for all of the improvements to the transaction functions. The recent "View All Matches" for trade building has been an enormous time saver. The Trade Matching feature has been really nice also to see who scores well for potential trades and then to be able to click on any member and Match Trades is also a beautiful feature.
I'd also like to thank the 350 different trade partners that I've worked with, many more than once.
This is an amazing hobby, with many excellent individuals. I'm truly blessed to be a part of it and I know I'm not alone in giving credit to this website for re-igniting my enjoyment for this hobby with the ability to research, track, inventory and of course trade unwanted cards for wanted cards. I've been able to build sets that I never thought possible before. I've completed 1974 to 2021 Topps flagship and Updated Sets and I'm down to just over a dozen 1973 Topps. I never thought I would attempt to build 1970-1972, but I'm working on those now with roughly 50% of those sets complete.
Thank you again to TCDB, Admin and all my trading partners past and future.