Contact on eBay looking to trade

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

Agreed. A couple years ago, I reached out to Tony Etrade (Tony Arnold?) via eBay offering him a T213 Ty Cobb in trade for a few of his E92 Dockmans he had. He didn't know me from Adam, and I didn't even know if he would respond or not. Well, he did and was very pleasant to work with. He asked me to ship first and I had no problem with it (like Sean mentioned I reached out to him, not vice-versa). The deal went very smooth.

You're a great judge of character!

[EvilKing00]

I have done this a few times but as the buyer. I have asked 2 or 3 sellers on ebay if they belogned to net54 who said yes, then we proceeded from there .

[Jewish-collector]

Greg - Is the guy a member of Net54 ?

[gregr2]

Originally Posted by Jewish-collector

Greg - Is the guy a member of Net54 ?

Surprisingly enough, I checked and he is not a member.

[jimivintage]

Originally Posted by gregr2

Surprisingly enough, I checked and he is not a member.

You know, funny enough, I've gotten to the point where I just assume everyone has heard of Net54. Shockingly....not everyone has! LOL

[gregr2]

He's heard of it and says he searches it periodically if he needs to find some information. He didn't really discuss why he's not a member. For someone that seems to have a lot of knowledge and a nice collection, you'd think the BST here would be right up his alley.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by gregr2

He's heard of it and says he searches it periodically if he needs to find some information. He didn't really discuss why he's not a member. For someone that seems to have a lot of knowledge and a nice collection, you'd think the BST here would be right up his alley.

I know a number of people involved in the hobby, who are very knowledgeable and/or have extensive collections, who will never post anything on "one of those chat boards." In some cases, they simply aren't tech savvy, but the reason for most seems to be an extreme aversion to the type of drama that message boards seem to breed. One in particular recently was shaking his head about some anonymous bashing on another board, and when I told him about Net54's policy of putting real names with such posts, he was like, "Oh, I didn't realize they did that. That's not so bad then."

I'm pretty sure he's still not a member, but just sayin', different strokes for different folks.