Card Trading Gripes,GARRRRR!!!!

Card trading is really getting rediculous these days.Everyone thinks they
have
GOLD and their cards are always better than yours.So therefore they think
they deserve the better end of the deal.As if you owe them something.Not
everyone does this but it sure seems it's moving in that
direction.Especially with all of these serial #'ed cards that are #'ed 25 or
less.they think they can get the world with those cards just because they
are too scarce to list in Beckett..I put up this post looking for a $15.00
autograph.( am a member of many trading groups.)
This guy answers and says he has the said card I was looking for.I asked him
to have a look at my trade page to see if there was anything he liked.He
answers back and says he's interested in a bunch of my $100.00 and $200.00
auto's.I have tons and tons of $15.00 to $25.00 auto's he could have choosen
from.But no he has to pick the best stuff I have for a nobody auto of his.I
don't think my cards are gold and think that my cards are the best.But that
is crazy.Other people have this crazy rule for trading, One guy wanted a
$30.00 rookie of mine.I looked at his trade page and said I would trade him
my $30.00 card for one of his $20.00 auto's.
He writes back like he is offended that I would even dare ask him for such a
crazy deal and writes in extra bold type "AUTO"S FOR AUTO'S,GAME USED FOR
GAME USED AND ROOKIES FOR ROOKIES"
Now who the hell made up this rule and set it in stone.He's getting a $30.00
rookie on the Beckett hot list for a $20.00 auto.

It's getting like this in almost all of the trade groups,You can't just make
a lower ended trade anymore.Or trades where the book values are
close.Everyone thinks they always have to get the better deal.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:34:16 -0600, "Mike" <krackpott.RemoveThis@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Card trading is really getting rediculous these days.

I agree with your post, Mike -- but, it really been this way for a
long time. This is the first post I've put into this newsgroup in
over a year because of such nonsense.

As long as someone doesn't offer me 500 commons for a high-end insert
(unless I really needed those commons), trading relative dollar value
for dollar value should suffice. It's not as if I'm going to be
unable to let loose of Joe Schmo's XX/25 card that I really don't give
a rip about as a collector anyway. As a set builder, there are many
times I've traded inserts, game used and autos for commons I've needed
to complete my sets.

It probably won't get any better until the true collectors come back
to the hobby and those who are only doing it as a speculative interest
fade into the background ....

Bob

Bob
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