Does Anybody Trade Anymore??

[ALR-bishop]

I have always collected sets and have not done so by packs since 1969. As a result I do not have many duplicates for trades. I do not sell, I just buy. I think I recall asking you about buying cards off your site but you telling me you prefer to trade, so that left me on the side lines

On the few occasions I have attempted trades elsewhere, I found the attempts to find common ground too cumbersome. It is easier for me to just buy what I need.

I have been collecting since 1957 but have done little trading since the 60s

[bnorth]

I have a small group of long time friends that I trade with on a regular basis. I have found trading on a forum is really hard for several reasons. Card values are tough because everyone thinks their cards are made of gold and yours are worthless. Condition, some just want a card with nice eye appeal and then you get the condition freaks that look at every card with a loupe. Funny part is the condition freaks usually have no problem sending a card in less than mint condition but expect a gem mint card in return.

I love trading but finding like minded people to trade with is very hard.

[JTysver]

There are plenty of traders.
I trade every week.

Your want list and condition requirements are very selective.
Since you seek higher end cards, rare cards and super stars, most people I know who have that stuff either have it in their main set (not dupes) or would prefer to sell it since it gets a premium return.
I have a few of the cards you need, but can't meet your shape requirements and I'm not planning on trading my main set cards for them since I'm trying to build a Topps run.
If you were to build with mid-grade set fillers and upgrade as you need to (I know a lot of traders who do that), that would probably open you up to a lot more traders.

Oh btw, Let's Go Mets!

[Leon]

You guys are making a lot of sense, quit it now or folks will start talking.

For me, trading is always on the table as I am not a set collector (not sure what I am right now). I only need to want a card more than the card I have and a trade can happen. I think everyone should be open to trade with a mindset like that. Lets say you have your main collection (nowadays known as PC or Personal Collection)... and it's great. Someone offers you a trade for something in it AND you want the offered card more, why not? There could be an infinite number of possibilities why someone would want to trade from a PC. All that being said, I haven't done a lot of trading as, a few have said, it's just easier to buy or sell something. Oh well, just some thoughts from a type collector who has had a PC and is working on another...

[DHogan]

Originally Posted by Leon

You guys are making a lot of sense, quit it now or folks will start talking.

I do ? That can't be me.

[SmokyBurgess]

For several years I have traded exclusively. I've found it both fun and exasperating. It's like overseas travel....torture and great reward.

More trades from the trading groups than on 54, but have met some great guys over the years. Always love to plug holes in a set. In the Spring, maybe I'll engage a bit more in trading.

[SAllen2556]

I think technology is the biggest reason-

With paypal, it's just so easy to sell and use the money on ebay or here on the boards. You can pay someone instantly and vice versa and not have to wait for a check or money order. And then using this fancy internet thingy, just go buy what you want.

I've sold several big lots of 70's doubles I had right here on the BST board. I get the money instantly and then go shopping! It's soooo much easier than trying to work out a trade. I mean, I would love to find the guy who would trade me a '34 Goudey Hank Greenberg for a bunch of '75 Topps minis, but it ain't gonna happen. Well, in essence, that's the type of thing I've been able to do by just selling.

Have you considered hauling your stuff to a local show and setting up a table? The way I understand it, dealers often trade with other dealers at card shows.

[cubsfan-budman]

i have started just buying what i want for my collection. that leaves me with very little vintage surplus.

sometimes i buy boxes of modern stuff, in which case i will trade the stuff i don't want...but i don't bother to do that on this board.

fyi jollyelm, you do have cool stuff to trade.

[baseballfan]

fredscards.weebly.com

here is my need list, but I have cards to trade in roughly the same condition I'm looking for. I think that may be the problem people can't fit with condition on trades.

I would love to trade, but I think the condition of the cards are the major draw back. I have done trades, big trades, I once sent about 30-40 55 All American graded cards to Texas for about 6 T206 graded HOFers. not sure about the value on each side but I didn't have to sell my double 55 AA and got t206 cards I wanted in return, I think both sides made out.

I have checked your list several times but like others here don't have the condition your looking for but I keep looking non the less.

good luck
Fred

[David W]

If I am sitting in the same room with a pile of cards and you also have a pile of cards, trading would be easy and beneficial for all.

But trying to trade online with strangers would be difficult unless we were trading bulk lots, like maybe an 800 count box of 73 Topps in varying condition for an 800 count box of 75 Topps in varying condition.

Otherwise it's easier to just sell it on ebay or elsewhere.

[Republicaninmass]

Many of the advanced signed card collectors will only trade for cards they need.

[ALR-bishop]

How high is your pile David ? Maybe trades should be made in cubic feet.

[David W]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

How high is your pile David ? Maybe trades should be made in cubic feet.

I have a lot of cubic feet of 90 Donruss Fleer and Topps to trade someone

[SMPEP]

The way I look at it ... I trade all the time.

I buy something new, and then go sell something on Ebay to pay for it.

To me, I just traded the cash as an intermediary to finish the trade.

Of course, I always seem to buy cards and then forget the part about selling other cards!

[hangman62]

Ive traded with SMPEP..and many others... would love to trade more...but its hard to match up..with card conditions, needs, trading stars for stars/ hi#s for Hi #s,etc..

Off top of head..here is a rough list of stuff I have avail for trade =

PLEASE NOTE - most cards low grade ( from awful to VG )

1911 T 201 - CMathewson/Birdwell, TCobb/Crawford
1933 Tattoo Orbit - commons,
1948 R346 Blue Tint - commons
1933 Delong - Bill Terry, commons
Berk Ross - Willie Mays,commons
60s Bazooka - Clemente
MP and Co - Hubbel,Ott,Reese,
Our Nat Gam ePin - Foxx
60 Armour coin - Aaron, Mantle
53 Johston Cookie s - commosn
62 T BB Bucks - Myas, commons
65T Emb - Mantle
65T transfer - Clemente
67T Pirate sticker - Stargell
54 DanDee- commons
67T Who Am I - Ruth
54 Red Heart - Musial, commons
64T coin - Mantle , mantle AS
73T candy lid - Brock
60 Bell Brand - Wils
65 F - drysdale game
54T Mays
68T action AS sticker - F.Robby
55B - Mantle,Aaron,
56T -Mantle,
63T -Clemenete
64T - mantle
65T -mantle
66T - complete hi# run 523-598
70T Bench
73T - Schmidt

Im not afraid of trading anything here......for stuff of equal clout

maybe to save time and cut right to the chase...instead of contacting me about " what shape is the 56T Mantle in ? ".... assume its G,F,P...and suggest something you have of equal value

Ral G

[Volod]

Hate to admit it, but I gave up on trading in 1953, when another nine-year-old in my rock-strewn schoolyard refused my offer of ten pack-fresh Bowman Color commons for his Warren Spahn blazer. He then shoved me out of his way and laughed all the way back to the classroom. I despised that kid for the rest of the spring and never did get a Spahn card from that set - until 1982, when I purchased one at a cardshow. Sorry, but that's my emotionally retarded reason for preferring sales.

[TAVG]

i trade all the time on sportscardforum.com been a member there since 2010. have close to 200 transactions.

doing a trade at the moment 100 giants base for 100 cardinals blind trade

[mrmopar]

The blind team trades were fun for me in the past if you could find a like minded individual to trade and not fret over the small details. I actually made a lifelong friend out of it, but eventually you run out of cards if you are not buying in any quantity. I still converse with this person, but the trades are few and far between now, just because neither one of us buys new packs or any sort of bulk stuff. We generally buy what we want now.

[TAVG]

Originally Posted by mrmopar

The blind team trades were fun for me in the past if you could find a like minded individual to trade and not fret over the small details. I actually made a lifelong friend out of it, but eventually you run out of cards if you are not buying in any quantity. I still converse with this person, but the trades are few and far between now, just because neither one of us buys new packs or any sort of bulk stuff. We generally buy what we want now.

i have not bought any product from the past two years, however im sitting on a couple hundred thousand junk base from 1988-2013. the guy im trading with wasnt worried about year or brand so it works out perfect.

i have traded almost all of certain teams away though doing blind trades.

i love it because its a surprise, i have close to 5000 different cardinals and im always excited when i can find more to add to the collection.

[mrmopar]

You sound like the kind of person I sought in my team trades. Generally I was looking for a similar amount of cards and tried to have it be the same general era, if it even mattered.

For a while it didn't matter to me, but even with Dodger cards for anything else, you CAN eventually have too many 1988 Topps Shawn Hillegas cards!

[Jantz]

I like to trade and have had some good experiences doing so.

Just wrapped up a trade with one board member yesterday and currently in the middle of another with a different board member.

I try to build one modern baseball set each year and like a lot of people do, trade off my dupes for cards that I need.

Anyone reading this that collects modern cards, feel free to PM me. Its an open invitation, shoot me a PM with what you're looking for and I will let you know whether I have any of that player/team/product or not.


Jantz

[parkerj33]

Hi, I do lots of trades, mostly on CU with my fellow topps heritage collectors. It helps in that we don't worry about condition (its modern and assumed nm-mt or better). And the trade value of cards is pretty well understood (sps vs. commons vs. inserts, etc). They are a solid group and i have done well over 100 trades with those guys over the years. Some are posting here too occasionally, although not about heritage.