Idea for new BST section

[Rhotchkiss]

I like the idea, but why does it have to be discard piles? I have piles to discard but cards for trade that do not fit my collection. A general trading section where you post the item(s) you have for trade - single card or discard pile etc- would be great.

[frankbmd]

With close to 700 BST transactions under my belt, only a couple dozen have been trades. Trades are fun to negotiate, but finding someone who wants what you have and has something you want makes it a lot more difficult than buying and selling.

The idea of trading for a pile of cards, most of which I don't want so that I can then trade 90% of the stack to someone else who doesn't want them seems problematic to me. It might work if everyone is building '88 Donruss sets, but who is.

I would think that if the idea were successful and I passed my trash to someone else in a trade, sooner or later I would receive that very same trash in return in a subsequent deal. I don't have one of those gerbils running in a wheel and going no where, but it might be more entertaining.

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As they say, what goes around, comes around

[rjackson44]

agree with frank...

[Rhotchkiss]

I have hardly done the volume Frank has done, but in the 13 months I have been on this board, I have done over $35k in trades (both just cards and cards and cash), including an E121 Ruth, a T227 Cobb, and T206 Matty Portrait, Evers Portrait, Chance Lenox, etc.

"If you build it, they will trade... People will trade [Frank/Leon], People will most definitely Trade".

[edjs]

Can't you just post your trade pile now in the appropriate section of the Buy/Sell/Trade? I see trades offered there often enough.

[x2drich2000]

Originally Posted by edjs

Can't you just post your trade pile now in the appropriate section of the Buy/Sell/Trade? I see trades offered there often enough.

+1 I really only want to look in one place for the cards I want. Also, if I have something to sell or trade, would I now post it in both areas?

DJ

[conor912]

Originally Posted by edjs

Can't you just post your trade pile now in the appropriate section of the Buy/Sell/Trade? I see trades offered there often enough.

We'll, not if your pile spans different decades. Plus this would be for larger quantities of things you don't want and aren't seeking fmv for. Say you and I have piles worth roughly 1k each and we agree to trade. Even if there's only one thing in mine that you want to keep, and visa versa, that's one new thing we got and we've each still got a pile to trade again.

Like I said, maybe I'd be the only person interested. It's possible I'm just being lazy, but I've got a drawer filling up with $20-$200 items that I don't want to deal with individually and don't want to take the bath that sending them to auction would result in. Ces't la vie.

[Luke]

I have piles I'm too lazy to deal with individually. But I'm probably also too lazy to scan them and list them all together in this section. Seems like a cool idea though.