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I write everything down on small cards (index cards) with trade numbers and what I'm getting. Have the user name, site I made the trade on and what cards I'm getting. Gives me a data base for address's of traders.
Dennis
Dennis
I used to keep addresses but they change frequently so I stopped that. The only information I keep is the name and handle of the trader.
I have a note book. I write down the trade number, date, and members id. I place a check mark by it with the date the card or cards were mailed out. No check mark or the trade was not posted on my note book means trouble!. Best regards, David
I've spent nearly $500 on postage since June of 2009, that is almost $100 year on postage. Does anybody else track their postage??
I actually print out the trade from the Trade Manager, then when I send my end I staple the PO receipt to the back. I leave the paper out until I get my end and have confirmation that the other trader got their end. When the trade is complete, I have a 3 ring binder for each site that I trade on so that I can know what I got and from which site.
Good luck with this. It is really up to you with what will work best for you.
Good luck with this. It is really up to you with what will work best for you.
Nowadays I just use the trade manager here to track everything. I will also print out each trade and then every month or two when I update the lists on my site I'll go through the printouts and delete the traded cards from my lists. If I make a trade off The Bench I'll leave the printout out until I receive my end so I don't forget.
Way back when I traded on AOL years ago I would keep track of every trade in a notebook with the username, cards in the trade, and the dates sent and received.
Richard
Way back when I traded on AOL years ago I would keep track of every trade in a notebook with the username, cards in the trade, and the dates sent and received.
Richard
My first full year 2008 to 2009 would have cost close to $1,000.00!! Best regards, David
I use to when I did track my trades I made up a spared sheet with all those who I traded with. I also mark who was a good trader and who was a poor traded based on packaging. Some traders will package like dogs and send out poor looking cards just to get rid of their stock. I no longer trade here because I found a trade night at my sports store. When you do blind trading and this is what it is, is blind trading you do so at your own risk.
I also made sure I sent out my trades where they would have to sign for the package making sure it got there.
I would sleeve each card or group of cards by using team bags. I would rap in bubble wrap, then rap that in hard cardboard and tape it shut tight. Slip that package into a bubble mailer and take it to the post office. Often I would get garbage back so I stop trading here.
I base my trading on this law ...I take extra steps to ensure you get mint to near mint condition and package the items the way I wanted to receive it. Often they came in like brown paper bag lunches, enough said ... blind trades is a RISK.
I also made sure I sent out my trades where they would have to sign for the package making sure it got there.
I would sleeve each card or group of cards by using team bags. I would rap in bubble wrap, then rap that in hard cardboard and tape it shut tight. Slip that package into a bubble mailer and take it to the post office. Often I would get garbage back so I stop trading here.
I base my trading on this law ...I take extra steps to ensure you get mint to near mint condition and package the items the way I wanted to receive it. Often they came in like brown paper bag lunches, enough said ... blind trades is a RISK.
That's impressive David but I think all would agree you are in a class all your own. I don't think I would have 6300 trades if I had traded my entire lifetime!
I once in a while will get cards I'm not happy with but I'd say 99% of the cards I trade for on this site are fine. If you are extra persnickety about condition (it's your right, everybody can collect the way they want) and you find that most other traders standards are not the same as yours, I would suggest making clear to the other trader beforehand the condition you are looking for. i.e. completely mint as opposed to nm-mt, which is the general assumed condition of modern cards and what Beckett pricing is based on.
It looks like you made 9 trades on this site, which may be too small of a sample size to judge everybody by. It's possible you ran into a couple of guys that weren't good about condition and/or had one or two good traders who missed something (it's happened to me before).
As far as packaging goes, some people don't pack very well but I've found it to be a small percentage of people on this site and I can't remember the last time I got a card that was damaged because of poor shipping on here. Overall I get worse shipping from ebay sellers. The method you describe really sounds like overkill unless you're talking about a $200 card or something. A cards/cards in a toploader or hard case, secured in some way so there's no bouncing around in a case or sliding out of a toploader, put in a bubble mailer, is a perfectly fine way to ship. Adding some blanks or cardboard to prevent bending helps somewhat but I'd say it's optional because they only receive damage from bending if a postal carrier crams too much stuff in the mailbox and you're unlucky. I have received thousands of cards shipped in this manner between trading and ebay, and literally ONE package had damaged cards, because the postal carrier bent it. Honestly if I received a card packaged the way you do it, I would be annoyed because it would take forever to get to the cards and all of that extra stuff is unnecessary. What would be your definition of the "garbage" method of shipping you would receive?
Richard
Interesting take on this thread. I've never used tracking for tracking good or bad traders, I chalk up the few differences I have with fellow traders as just part of the business of online trading. It started out of curiosity for me first because I was wondering what I had that I traded away and then it became more of an inventory tool...then I added the cost factor in and lets just say I keep that data to myself (if you know what I mean?)
anyone else tracking?
Now I/m down to about 30 to 40 trades a month or $30.00 to $35.00 cost. Best regards, David PS my huge trading days are probably over due to the increases in postage.
I was reading that old thread about TOTM and it is hard to believe guys (like you) were getting upwards of 60+ trades a month back in the day, that is hard to fathom for me, I wouldn't get anything else done.
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