Jealous?

[David K.]

I trade and buy base cards that I need or for friends! Best regards, David

 

[brewerfan34]

Well, Let me just start off saying, I’m not crying or really complaining and I guess more Jealous than anything else but just wondering if anyone still trade anything other than Autos and Game used stuff? In my small town we have no sports card Shops so all we can get locally is retail stuff and is really hard cards to that caliber.. Lots of inserts, parallels and maybe few rookies with an rare jersey or autograph every blue moon.. Don’t get me wrong I love the higher end stuff but with my limited access very rarely pull any and its hard to trade with the lower end cards I have access to.
Just Wondering Cary

I agree with you for the most part and I've been thinking the samething. One major problem is many people on here collect the same items. I've had that problem with collecting Braun and Brewers in general.

If you work at it and put the time and effort into making good lists the trades will happen.

 

[mrmopar]

I wonder if part of the problem is the rising cost of postage. It seems like it wasn't long ago that a small mailer could be sent for less than a buck. Now it's pretty much $1.95 for the small mailer, unless you are using the PP deal I keep hearing people mention, which is in the $1.60 range. I just metered a small box of cards (I think they are 200-250 count size, I can never remember) for someone and it came to $5.65!! Hardly worth the postage to mail the cards. You either have to think small or go to a flat rate size to feel like it is worth it. I see team lots being advertised all the time, often free if you pay postage and I wouldn't mind picking some up, but when I ask about quantity, it's usually 25, 65 or maybe 200 cards. It needs to be in the 1000s to make it worth the shipping weight, and that assumes the cards are FREE!

I'd guess another factor is it takes organization to be able to trade low end at a higher efficiency. I have tried to motivate to organize and always fail in the end. I have 30-40 5K boxes sitting under my staircase that are partially sorted. Some boxes and done, by player and even down to year and set, while others are just by last name first letters (Rs, Ts, etc). Some are still waiting to be sorted all together. The one thing I am completely done with is purging pure commons out. I dumped most those several years back, so nearly all of the remaining cards are stars, semis and favorites. Still, it can take hours just to sort a few boxes.

I have a dream of being able to go right to a specific spot and find all the David Cone cards or the Dave Parker cards, sorted by year and then by brand. I'm guessing I will die before that happens, but you never know...

I still think there is activity here for the low end collector, but it will probably be harder to get more trades w/o spicing up the selection a little.

 

[Hoyt55]

I wonder if part of the problem is the rising cost of postage. It seems like it wasn't long ago that a small mailer could be sent for less than a buck. Now it's pretty much $1.95 for the small mailer, unless you are using the PP deal I keep hearing people mention, which is in the $1.60 range. I just metered a small box of cards (I think they are 200-250 count size, I can never remember) for someone and it came to $5.65!! Hardly worth the postage to mail the cards. You either have to think small or go to a flat rate size to feel like it is worth it. I see team lots being advertised all the time, often free if you pay postage and I wouldn't mind picking some up, but when I ask about quantity, it's usually 25, 65 or maybe 200 cards. It needs to be in the 1000s to make it worth the shipping weight, and that assumes the cards are FREE!

I'd guess another factor is it takes organization to be able to trade low end at a higher efficiency. I have tried to motivate to organize and always fail in the end. I have 30-40 5K boxes sitting under my staircase that are partially sorted. Some boxes and done, by player and even down to year and set, while others are just by last name first letters (Rs, Ts, etc). Some are still waiting to be sorted all together. The one thing I am completely done with is purging pure commons out. I dumped most those several years back, so nearly all of the remaining cards are stars, semis and favorites. Still, it can take hours just to sort a few boxes.

I have a dream of being able to go right to a specific spot and find all the David Cone cards or the Dave Parker cards, sorted by year and then by brand. I'm guessing I will die before that happens, but you never know...

I still think there is activity here for the low end collector, but it will probably be harder to get more trades w/o spicing up the selection a little.

The postage is part of it for me.

Before, I wouldn't have minded paying $1.50 or so to mail five or six base cards in a trade.

Now, unless I'm trading a few inserts for a big chunk of base needs or something, I usually hold off on trades that are less than about ten cards or so. At the least, I'll want to expand the trade. Twenty or thirty cents extra per package might not sound like much at times, but it can add up.

It's also why I'm more inclined towards PWE trades nowadays. They're way, way cheaper than a bubble mailer in most cases.

 

[BoomerSooner]

I made my point and am not looking for everyone to agree! If you choose to ignore the obvious then well I really couldn't care less.

It's a discussion. That's what happens when you post something on a public board- some folks will agree with you, some won't. But I think we're all entitled to voice those opinions, right?

And for the record, I agree with the comments about postage, which for me, in comparison to 20 years ago, makes trading low volume stuff difficult- i.e. swapping you 2 common cards costs me $2 to send in a bubble mailer, which kind of irks me, but trying to make larger volume deals here is very, very difficult, for some of the other reasons posted about.

 

[Meliah]

Postage is what has been doing it for me of late. Now that I'm on a tighter hobby budget shipping makes my moolah go so much quicker if I do a lot of smaller trades. I'd love to do larger trades but I have a hard time finding people that have larger lots for me of cards I need. I also have no higher end stuff around so of late I've been saving up my money and buying higher end items, or lots, for my PC.

I'll say this though, no matter what's going on around the hobby, or with trading, I still love it--keeps me sane

 

[robpike24]

i like the cleveland indians and any baseball or football rookies

robpike24- I'll look and see if I have any browns to trade is that all you're interested in??

Chief, I sent you a PM

Billy, I have a list of alot of cards in my WWW. it needs to be updated but most are still there. LMK

 

[KCLJ520]

Hey I just want to throw this in here: TRADE WITH CARY (jrpiratejack)!!!! He has helped me a TON with the collection we are putting together for our child, and he is a very generous trader and a great guy....if anybody on here has anything to help him out, get a trade going with him!!!

 

[Chavezforprez]

Not much, but I can use this one.

Thanks,
Billy

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