Mauri
Verified Trader
In trying to make a lot of trades, I wish that the platform were laid out a bit better. The ability to filter those users that own a card I want that I also have a card on their wish list would be a nice touch, as would sorting by something once you get the results for what you're looking for. I don't know how you guys pulled off making so many trades with a platform that's still a bit tedious to use.
It would be solved partly by the feature I really wish for, that is, besides "wish list" you'd also have "not for trade". As a clear example, my 2015-16 Series 1 base set is something I don't want to trade away but I don't want more of those either. Now with the "lock" I can lock them, sure, but I have to do that one-by-one and basically open every single card page to lock exactly one of each because obviously the duplicates are for trade. A situation where this problem raises is when you accidentally lock all of your cards and need to unlock some of them.
One solution currently is that if a card is not for trade, lock it. If it is not locked, it is for trade.
Yet another thing that would solve your problem would be a single switch: Every acquired card appears / doesn't appear in marketplace. That is, unless you explicitly mark the cards, they are locked/unlocked.
Philosophical question... from a search of what people have on ePack it looks like there are some players/teams that don't have any dedicated collectors working on the golds - would you consider your PC 'complete' without the compendium gold if you knew that no one else had one either? Or does the mere fact that the card could potentially exist compel you to chase it?
While the current iteration of Compendium turned out to be achievable with a 'reasonable' investment of time n money, if UD added another level like diamond that was say 10 times harder, I wonder if I'd be able to say that since no one else chases the Sedins like I do the card as good as doesn't exist. If a tree falls in the forest...
Define "doesn't exist".
By the way, the most rare card I'm aware of is 1997-98 Donruss Elite Prime Numbers Die-Cuts #11B Joe Sakic 0/300. The print run is exactly 0.