This isn't a milestone or anything. I don't know what to call it, but I just entered double digits in TCDB trades.
I completed trades 10 and 11 in the last few days. I still haven't proposed a trade myself and I'm getting real lazy about that.
It's difficult to take the next step when everything is still going so well. I received these five very welcome 1979 Topps football needs for a couple of late '80s baseball cards and one Dodger dupe from last year. Please tell me it's going to be like this forever.
These cards came from Mccammon44. I'm a bit torn about whether Joe Ferguson goes in the '79 football set binder or the Bills binder but not as much as if Joe Ferguson was the other Joe Ferguson and it was the Dodgers binder.
These are the results of trade #11, from bearsbaseballcards. I sent him six cards that ranged from the early '80s to this year for these Pacific/Swell gems. I just can't get enough of these. It will be sad when I've completed them all, although that's not going to happen for awhile.
I've noticed that some people on TCDB just really like trading, it almost seems like they don't care what they get back, although maybe that's just me not attaching much value to what I'm sending.
I've also noticed that folks who I've transacted with in the past are using people's want lists on TCDB to ship off RAK envelopes.
These cards arrived in an unexpected envelope from Bo last week. I'm assuming he found these off my TCDB page, not my blog want list page.
I came to that conclusion after realizing both of the 2002 Fleer cards are gold backs. I don't have the gold backs checked as "wants" on TCDB but I can't imagine people looking at my blog wants for my 2002 Fleer gold back list, although it does exist.
I'm on record as dismissing back parallels as almost always pointless but, yes, when it comes to the Dodgers I gotta have stuff like this.
These also showed up last week from reader Jim, aka, mr haverkamp, who I know is all about TCDB.
I'm sure they arrived via my TCDB want lists because I didn't even post my TCDB 1982 Fleer sticker wants even two weeks ago.
That's tip-off No. 1. Tip-off No. 2 is that the sticker is Mike Schmidt, who Jim collects a lot. Tip-off No. 3 is I don't have a want list for '82 stickers on my blog.
But if you want to throw the remaining three stickers I need my way, they are Dwight Evans (of course) and the Rod Carew and Dave Concepcion All-Star stickers.
Jim also sent a Ron Cey Edward Vela art card, numbered to 50 and signed by the artist on the back. I have another signed Vela Cey card, they are very nice.
I could have sworn these were listed on TCDB but I can't find them now. Sometimes I have a tough time searching for stuff there, even on some basic sets.
If trades somehow dry up over there, I'll have to initiate some myself. I know I can do that as I've done it plenty when trading with fellow bloggers.
But for now, why screw up a good thing?
Comments
It's really easy to use too, once you get past the time-consuming portion of entering your own collection and your wantlist. Luckily there are drop-down menus that allow you enter all of a particular player, team, or set (including separate insert sets) with just one click.
I've also sent out a few extra cards that were on someone's list with an existing trade, or even a few that nobody wanted that I included just for the heck of it.
This is a fun hobby. It doesn't have to be an investment hobby or one where you squeeze every last drop of money out of someone because your 20-cent common is worth slightly less than their 40-cent common. Most people on there get that and have made it a wonderful community.