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What was the last TRADE you made?

TrailerParkBoyTrailerParkBoy Posts: 44
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I was pulling out some of my collection from the early days, I started back in 1985. Was going to pull some raw cards to submit when I found my 1985 Frank DiPino. I remember vividly trading a Team USA Oddibe McDowell AND Darryl Strawberry for this card so that I could complete my '85 Set.

Got me to thinking, we used to have a card shop around here that used to love to TRADE, he would trade book value for book value, even back when dealers were paying 15-20% and selling for 50%. Seems like no one trades anymore.

Has anyone made any TRADES in the last 5 years with fellow collectors or dealers?

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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    I havent,but I used to often in the late 80s with dealers.It sure seems to be a thing of the past.Was able to enhance my collection greatly in this manner.I rarely go to shows any more unless they are of National or Big Time Promoters.I havent been to Gibralter in ages even though I can drive there in 10 minutes as most of the good sellers have seemed to disapear.
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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
    Nick Swisher for Chase Utley. Fantasy baseball.
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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    Lots of trading happens in the Heritage thread, and The Bench is a trading hotspot.

    Geordie

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  • tkd7tkd7 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭
    Last year - '56 Topps PSA 7 Glen Gorbus (sp?) for '56 PSA 7 Andy Carey.
    Made with a fellow board member.
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    It got me thinking, wow, it's been a long time since I've done a trade. The last trade was on the Beckett boards in 1999.

    I gave up a 1987 Fleer Update glossy Greg Maddux (freshly pulled from a set) for 2 1980 Topps Rickey Hendersons that would probably grade PSA 7 or 8 if I bothered to submit them. He practically shoved the cards on me. He must have really, really wanted that Maddux (which was selling on Ebay for $3 - 6).
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  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭
    I have made 4 or 5 trades here with another board member. I had a bunch of 69 bkb and he had some 60's fb and after going back and forth with scans and dialog over AIM, we made our first trade. I think we just finished either our 4th or 5th.

    I enjoy trading when neither person is looking to take the other person for a ride.
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  • poppiepoppie Posts: 598
    Reminds me of a Card Shop owner that I used to play "Pack Poker" with in the mid 1980's. Highest book value won!
    My focus, 1970 Topps Baseball Raw and Graded, pre 1989 PSA Hockey and 1933 INDIAN GUM ! Yikes!!
  • tennesseebankertennesseebanker Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭
    I traded some Psa 9 1973 Football for for some Psa 8 1975 Baseball with another member not too long ago. Now if I could just find someone to trade my 73 Psa 8 Football with.
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  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    I trade fairly regularly, though there's sometimes a cash equalizer involved. My last, just a couple of weeks ago, was me giving up a PSA 4 E93 Leach and cash for a PSA 2 E93 Matty.
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  • MiniMasterMiniMaster Posts: 505 ✭✭
    Just completed what was to me a blockbuster deal with a fellow Set Registry Set Owner. 1975 Topps Mini's......I received 13 PSA 10's (8 of which were 1/1's) and 3 (low pop) PSA 9's. I gave up 100 PSA 8's, 20 PSA 9's and a few PSA 7's and $1,875 in cash. The other side may have received the better deal....lol......but it sure was a fun trade/cash deal, and it brought me to my goal of a 9.00 GPA much quicker than I had previously thought possible.
  • EB31EB31 Posts: 250


    << <i>Just completed what was to me a blockbuster deal with a fellow Set Registry Set Owner. 1975 Topps Mini's......I received 13 PSA 10's (8 of which were 1/1's) and 3 (low pop) PSA 9's. I gave up 100 PSA 8's, 20 PSA 9's and a few PSA 7's and $1,875 in cash. The other side may have received the better deal....lol......but it sure was a fun trade/cash deal, and it brought me to my goal of a 9.00 GPA much quicker than I had previously thought possible. >>



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  • dstudebadstudeba Posts: 215 ✭✭
    For rarer cards, many times trading is the only way to pull a card out of someone's collection. I did a trade last week for a 1953 Briggs Meats card that has sold once in the last 2-3 years. I couldn't have obtained if I didn't have a Briggs card he needed (which had sold 3 times in the last 2-3 years!).
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  • coachhcoachh Posts: 529 ✭
    I just completed a trade to finish a 1964 Topps Giants set in PSA 7. It seems it was harder to complete in 7 than it would have been in 8 and 9.
  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    A few months ago, I traded a Niagara Baking card for a T-206 proof and a high-grade E104-III.

    Having a trading inventory in pre-war is critical. It opens the doors to many cards that you simply can't buy, independent of how much money you can throw at it-

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have been getting a lot of offers for a PSA 6 T3 I have in the registry. And the trades have been very fair but I like the card.

    Most recent trade - Friday - I traded 1/2 my meatball sub for 1/2 of my wife's sausage and pepper.

    mike
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  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    my best trade lately or maybe ever: i traded a 2000 psa 10 bowman joe montana "vintage best" card that i paid nothing for, for a 1/1 psa 10 1993 stadium club joe montana master photo redemption card that will qualify for my master set..

    second best trade: my ex for my freedom

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  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
    I traded a board member a few years back a psa 9 Roger Clemens Fleer Update RC 65/35 centering for a centered psa 7 1962 Stan Musial, psa 8 1972 Tom Seaver, and a psa 8 perfectly centered 1969 Pete Rose and about 40 or 50 in cash.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was just wondering...

    Has anyone made a trade...regretted if afterwards AND realized it was not an equitable transaction?

    I had no trouble trading hot rookies for exmt vintage back in the RC craze era.

    mike
    Mike
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have made countless trades especially when it comes to Topps Heritage

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  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    Has anyone made a trade...regretted if afterwards AND realized it was not an equitable transaction?

    pretty sure the guy that traded me felt that way.... but he's a good friend of mine and realized quickly that he had no chance of making it out of my house alive with that card in his hand once i sent it to psa for him and checked the pop report when it came back a 1/1 10... he didn't realize until later that he could have raked me over the coals for it and i'd have coughed up basically whatever he wanted for it within reason.... it was hard to keep a straight poker face when i was making that trade i must say.. now that card is one of my very favorites.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have made countless trades especially when it comes to Topps Heritage >>


    Ya know Dan

    I think I gave away more than I traded.

    mike
    Mike
  • TrailerParkBoyTrailerParkBoy Posts: 44
    couple of things...

    1. We had a card shop that played Pack Poker as well, it wasnt book value, but highest # card got everyones cards. On saturdays as many as 4 or 5 guys were buying and busting SP product when that was the primo product and playing for the cards. Very fun.

    2. Definitely made some trades I hated. I had a neighbor who always traded for my commons. I remember trading a 3200 ct box of 86 fleer for a Dusty Baker RC. Probably would have graded a 7 or so. Later, he found about 20 Cecil Fielder rookies which he sold traded for a couple of boxs of 84 Donruss. He still has em. The Baker RC is gone.
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
    Cool thread! The last one I really remember is trading a 1985 F Puckett RC for a 1987 Topps cello with Joyner on the front and Eric Davis on the back (I thought his was just the bomb at the time, although looking back on it the reasons why I felt this way have escaped me). But hey, I still have that cello!
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boo
    Here's the first vintage card I ever traded for during the RC craze in the 90s - I remember because I saw it laying in the display cabinet for almost a year when I traded him for some "hot" RC's which are now in the LESS THAN COMMON bin!

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    Even tho this is not a great card - it's better than a mint Semour Butts RC.

    mike
    Mike
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>Boo
    Here's the first vintage card I ever traded for during the RC craze in the 90s - I remember because I saw it laying in the display cabinet for almost a year when I traded him for some "hot" RC's which are now in the LESS THAN COMMON bin!

    image

    Even tho this is not a great card - it's better than a mint Semour Butts RC.

    mike >>



    No doubt, Mike, you made out like a bandit! BTW, who were the future HOF RC's? Greg Swindell? Cory Snyder?
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boo
    I must confess, since I did biz with him for almost 2 yrs., I don't remember.

    The big one that he'ld call me on was if I could get him Dave Justice.

    There were a couple of big time dealers in SCD at the time and that was no problemo - he didn't want to take the time to wade thru SCD and stuff - his main biz was coins and stamps at the time.

    I want to say there were the Meyer Brothers? I will have to check in an old SCD. Bruce Harris who is till around would supply me with all the Glavines I wanted cheap also.

    One I did really good with - when Frank Thomas was hotter than anything - they booked at 3 bucks and he would give me a 1.50 - well I had 750 - that I paid a quarter for - I didn't take the cash - just picked up cards from him. These were the 90Bs.

    I still have around 200 of the Thomas somewhere?

    mike

    Mike
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>Boo
    I must confess, since I did biz with him for almost 2 yrs., I don't remember.

    The big one that he'ld call me on was if I could get him Dave Justice.

    There were a couple of big time dealers in SCD at the time and that was no problemo - he didn't want to take the time to wade thru SCD and stuff - his main biz was coins and stamps at the time.

    I want to say there were the Meyer Brothers? I will have to check in an old SCD. Bruce Harris who is till around would supply me with all the Glavines I wanted cheap also.

    One I did really good with - when Frank Thomas was hotter than anything - they booked at 3 bucks and he would give me a 1.50 - well I had 750 - that I paid a quarter for - I didn't take the cash - just picked up cards from him. These were the 90Bs.

    I still have around 200 of the Thomas somewhere?

    mike >>



    The Meyer brothers? Would that include the much-ballyhooed Brewers prospect Tanner Joe Meyer?
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