I’ll Show You Mine
(if you show me yours)
Since I’m right smack dab in the middle of my very first blog-to-blog trade, I thought I’d add some trading pages. Really, I’m an exhibitionist and I just want you all to see everything I’m doing.
Not buying it? Oh, fine.
Hopefully doing this will keep me honest and active in trading, and maybe it will even serve the blog a little bit in giving me some good content to rant on. Also, I’m hoping it may help other traders out there get a feel for who else is trading out there, what those bloggers are looking for, and what they have to trade away. It might also help you see which bloggers are aces in trading, and which bloggers are scammers. Not that any of you are. But, boy. I’ve seen some scammers out there.
Hey, let’s face it. I want you all to feel comfortable trading with me as well.
So let’s get down to it, shall we?
Trading Pages? I don’t see no steenkeeng Trading Pages!
Okay, okay, before you go get your britches in a knot that only a Scoutmaster could appreciate (and not in a Canteen Boy way, either, you sicko), let me just point out that I’m not very smart with customizing my blog. I’d rather my page links be somewhere up top. Guess what? Can’t figure out how to do it. SO… instead, I’m just plopping ‘em over on the reference bar on the right side. Just scroll until you see something that looks kinda like this…
The links we’re going to worry about are under the "Wanna Trade?" section.
"For Trade" List
This is a link to my ultra amazing fantastically cool unbelievably user-friendly completely sortable Excel spreadsheet which contains all of the cards that I currently have for trade.
"Want" List
This is an in-blog page that lists all of the cards that I am currently hunting. This page is going to have constant updates as I learn about old cards that I don’t have and as new cards are released.
Photobucket
This is a link to my Photobucket page. Therein you will find scans and photos of some of the higher valued cards that are featured in my "For Trade" list. There you will also find scans of some of the higher valued cards that are in my personal collection. Just a word of warning: cards in my personal collection (PC) are NOT FOR TRADE (NFT)! If you try trading for anything in my PC, I won’t like you anymore. Trust me. That’ll sting.
Trades Completed
Another in-blog page, this highlights all of the trades that I have made from this blog. It should contain the dates that each trade was initiated, the traders involved, what was sent, what was received, as well as any other amusing comments I may have (as I always do). This will be fleshed out a bit better as trades are completed. Depending on the amount of trading done, I may have to split this section up into sub-pages (by year and/or month… or something… we’ll see).
Trades Pending
This in-blog page will ONLY show trades that are on-going. Any trades in this page will not be moved into the Trades Completed page until all parties involved in the given trade have received their items. It’s pretty simple, yeah? This page will highlight the start date, who is trading, and what is being traded. If I’m feeling ambitious, I may even add links and pictures and music and dancing bears and bicycle riding pigs and upside down rainbows and… okay, maybe I shouldn’t get too far ahead of myself here.
At this very moment, I am currently involved in a trade. Betcha can’t find out who I’m trading with! Betcha can’t find out what I sent!
Oh. You found it. Well, if I were baking any cookies, I’d give you one. Maybe even two.
So, yeah, hopefully this will be a useful tool (much like myself) and we can get some TOTALLY RAD trades accomplished. Aren’t you excited? I’m excited. BE EXCITED!!
P.S.
If any of you have any suggestions on how to make this, ya know… moar smarder… or something similar… please let me know. PEACE, FOOL.
