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Originally Posted by Matthew H
I have only traded locally. How does an online trade work? Who sends the card first? You guys don't even know each other, how will you work that out?
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Online trades all work on the honesty factor. Usually on forums, like this one, over the years you become familiar with the members and you find out which ones are trust worthy. Some forums even have a feedback option (similar to ebay), so you can at least do a little research on your trading partner and see how many successful online deals they have done.
Another way of trading online, especially in larger deals like Quinnsryche is involved in, is having a middleman involved where both trading parties will send their ends of the trade to the middleman (usually a forum moderator or a well known and trusted senior member). Once the middleman receives both parties packages, he will then check the contents to ensure both sides have sent the correct cards and then he will go out and mail the packages to the respective parties. Having a trusted "middleman" is usually the safest, best and most worry free way of making a large $$$ deal, especially if the two trading parties do not know each other or have not yet built up their reputations.