Anyone You Trade With Leave You Feeling Not So Fresh?

[ullmandds]

Mac...funny...that's how I feel to0...like dealing with card dealers as a kid! Or like when you want to buy a car with a 6 speed...it's so rare and requires a premium...and when you trade it in...it's undesireable and the dealer offers you less!

[murcerfan]

my favorite are the guys who post "want to buy" this or that, usually something hard to find, and then upon being offered the card(s) at a reasonable retail price, they start quoting me e-bay sales or out of touch book values. I always respond by saying that they should buy the card(s)from that book or get the card(s) on e-bay, cause those sound like quite good deals to me.

edited to add:
....and then there are the flippers.

[hangman62]

Mac,
I disagree with you.. when trading ball cards.."what you have into it" has nothing to do with the trade. It doesnt matter that a guy picked up a "an Ebay steal", " bought the cards in a close out" or got an incredible deal at a garage sale.. The important thing when trading is the cards should be properly graded and valued. And above all both sides must be completely happy with the swap.

[Kenny Cole]

+1

[marcdelpercio]

Just wanted to put in a good word for Mac. I have done several relatively high dollar multi-card trades with him and have always found him to be very reasonable on values, easy to deal with, and willing to put some high quality cards on the table.

I am a very frequent trader myself...in fact I prefer it to selling. In my experience, there are basically three categories I put a trader in.

The first is a person who seems to genuinely want to make a fair deal whether it's a $20 card or a $2000 lot and is willing to value items reasonably and pull the trigger on a deal.

The second is a person who seems to want to haggle values down to the penny and conditions of commons down to the micro-grade. These are the ones that leave me often feeling like I've gotten the worse end of the deal. If it's a card I really want, I don't mind as much as I'm usually willing to trade at a bit of a premium for something I like a bunch...but the negotiation process can be grueling.

The third is a person who either has no clue about the value of baseball cards or else thinks I have no clue about the value. These are people who make offers so completely ridiculous, it is difficult to even come up with an appropriate reply.

Overall, I would say that I'm very happy with almost all of the trades I've made on the B/S/T and it's easy to say "no thanks" to the ones that don't work for me.

[teetwoohsix]

I've been pretty lucky- I mostly just buy, and every board member I've bought cards from have been excellent to deal with.

Made one trade quite awhile back and walked away very happy (thanks again Jim)- was very simple- I posted what I had to trade and what I wanted in return, was contacted by a great board member who was down for the trade and had what I was looking for- done deal. Prices of what one another paid for their cards was never a topic, for IMO it didn't matter.

I think if one half of the trading party is left feeling not so fresh, something wasn't right. Just my opinion.

[Tcards-Please]

+1 Marc

I too must say that I've made several trades with Mac and all have been positive. He's definitely one of the best, right up there with all the other board members that I've dealt with.

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Frank

Originally Posted by marcdelpercio

Just wanted to put in a good word for Mac. I have done several relatively high dollar multi-card trades with him and have always found him to be very reasonable on values, easy to deal with, and willing to put some high quality cards on the table.

I am a very frequent trader myself...in fact I prefer it to selling. In my experience, there are basically three categories I put a trader in.

The first is a person who seems to genuinely want to make a fair deal whether it's a $20 card or a $2000 lot and is willing to value items reasonably and pull the trigger on a deal.

The second is a person who seems to want to haggle values down to the penny and conditions of commons down to the micro-grade. These are the ones that leave me often feeling like I've gotten the worse end of the deal. If it's a card I really want, I don't mind as much as I'm usually willing to trade at a bit of a premium for something I like a bunch...but the negotiation process can be grueling.

The third is a person who either has no clue about the value of baseball cards or else thinks I have no clue about the value. These are people who make offers so completely ridiculous, it is difficult to even come up with an appropriate reply.

Overall, I would say that I'm very happy with almost all of the trades I've made on the B/S/T and it's easy to say "no thanks" to the ones that don't work for me.

[Gradedcardman]

I recently made a purchase of some Sovereign T206's from a board member. As we started talking about price he made a comment about what he had in a given card. I told him that quite honestly I did not care. Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay. As far as trades go, if I make a trade then it was beneficial for me. I hope not to be perceived as someone who screws another on a trade but why the heck would you make the trade if your not happy ?

[asoriano]

Originally Posted by murcerfan

my favorite are the guys who post "want to buy" this or that, usually something hard to find, and then upon being offered the card(s) at a reasonable retail price, they start quoting me e-bay sales or out of touch book values. I always respond by saying that they should buy the card(s)from that book or get the card(s) on e-bay, cause those sound like quite good deals to me.

+1

[smtjoy]

Three trades in the last month and happy with them all. I find that some people are much more open to trading than others.