What’s your coolest card trade?

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Just looking at the worst trade post and was thinking about one of your coolest and favourite trade. I don’t mean where you ripped a kid off trading a Patrick Roy or Gretzky OPC anniversary rookie cards for a big card but what was your favourite trade you made. One that stands out to you.

I think mine was with Geoff Inder our own IronmanIndy. Back in the early 90’s I traded Geoff a Rough Bobby Orr rookie for a Fleer Michael Jordan rookie. Was a pretty fair trade back then. I would love to have the Orr back but I still love the Jordan rookie.
 
That sounds like a very cool trade.

I think one of my favorite trades was for my Gretzky AU. I was in a SPA group break and had DET and hit a Larkin inscribed SOTT "D-Boss" which indicates it is /10 but I guess only 2 were signed with that inscription so a Larkin collector really wanted the card so I got a Gretzky SOTT SP as well as paypal.

Gretzky AU_zps9re0wlph by Scott Nobles, on Flickr

That is one of my more recent trades that sticks out.
 
Wasn't a rip off at the time, but I traded a few random cards away for this M-A Fleury YG when his stuff was pretty low. This was of course well before his last hurrah in Pittsburgh and his eventual hobby explosion in Vegas.

Happy to have one in my Fleury PC :D
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Quite a few years ago, TRADED this to a Barilko collector .....



...... for these 2 studs in a TRADE that took less than 5 minutes to finalize!





As I look through my flickr folder - $OLD / TRADED, I could post a few more deals that I made @ Expo.
 
Those are all awesome guys! Thanks for sharing

That’s one sick trade Norm. Isn’t it funny how fast the big trades come together.
 
Mine was with Darren at MLS in Calgary, I bought a box of 07/08 spx and pulled a dual winning materials patch auto of Marty Turco /25, Darren said he had a guy that will want that (I assume turcocollector Tim), he offered me a frozen artifacts patch /10 lanny McDonald, I took the trade but have been looking for a copy of said Turco for 10 years now, lol
 
Mine was back in 2010, when I got a Tim Horton's cut auto in a box that I bought and had Jeremy open for me at the expo. Back then I would pick a set to build out of ITG Ultimate every year, and that year it was the Decades set from UM10. Murray (MTO4LIFE) collected cut autos, and opened a ton of ITG Ult. Mem. every year. We worked out a large trading deal where I got several cards for my set, and it helped me make the connection that I needed to eventually get the 1910's card in a separate transaction later on. That was the final card that I needed to complete the set. I couldn't have done it w/o the help of Jeremy and Murray, which made it even more special to me.
 
chefjason said:
Mine was with Darren at MLS in Calgary, I bought a box of 07/08 spx and pulled a dual winning materials patch auto of Marty Turco /25, Darren said he had a guy that will want that (I assume turcocollector Tim), he offered me a frozen artifacts patch /10 lanny McDonald, I took the trade but have been looking for a copy of said Turco for 10 years now, lol
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Long shot, but maybe Tim has a duplicate of this card for ya?
 
I got an Odjick BAP Memo Emerald /10 for a BAP SS gold rookie auto, a Black Diamond jsy, a SPA Brook Orpik FWA and a couple of other things. The Odjick is still among my favorite PC cards.
 
This one stands out for sure...knew I wanted this card the second I saw it. Gave up too much (Crosby Auto Jersey, Lemieux Auto Jersey, Malkin SPA SOTT Auto from rookie year AND cash), but I was getting this amazing card. Definitely among my most memorable, if not the most memorable.



Also, ironic two posts here are about these Dominion Kindest Cuts cards, haha.
 
I know this is a hockey board by my coolest trade was for a baseball card. Kind of a long story, I did a trade for this baseball card:

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Fast forward a couple months and the same guy had a Babe Ruth cut from the same set. I did a trade for that card. Sorry I don't have a scan of the Ruth.

Later on eBay I found a cut of Satchell Paige that I wanted and I sent a PM to the seller to see if he was interested in a trade. He replied he was mostly a seller and if I would provide him with cards of equal value we would do a deal.

I sent him a link to my photobucket and he sent me PM to call him as soon as possible. I call and he says he wanted to trade for the Ruth. I told him NO! That was and will be he cornerstone of my collection forever.

He then says, if he can get me another Ruth auto would I consider a trade? I say I always listen to deals. A few days later he calls me back and says we have a deal on the Paige and he has found me another Ruth cut auto.

Here is the Paige

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Would I consider trading my Ruth for the 1/1 Murder' Row Quad auto? We go back and forth for two or three days as the 1/1 should be worth at the time about $3,000 more than what I had in my Ruth cut. I send him some ideas to even out the trade and we get within $300 of a deal. Do I add something or back away since I really liked my Ruth cut? I stop by one of our locals and talk with the owner about his idea of the deal. I then get decide to keep my Ruth cut as I am happy with the card and down deep I don't think I wanted to give up some of the cards I had offered to make the deal even. I call the guy and tell him, thanks but no thanks.

I leave the local and start my way home. I hit a red light and my phone rings and the guy tells me he has to have my Ruth card and he will do the deal as a one for one trade and to make sure I am happy he will send me his card first.

I thought about and did the trade and this is now the cornerstone of my collection. And the autos have been authenticated by James Spence as real.

Back of the 1/1

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and the front

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That's my coolest trade

And get this, the card is actually an error card because for some reason, Upper Deck listed Lou Gehrig as an outfielder.
 
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The coolest trade for me took place fairly recently. I always hoped to add a Bobby Orr auto to the PC. Mastermind (Gordon Ma) needed a Mahovlich Brushstrokes auto for his set and had an extra Orr available. We had a fair difference in value between the two but Gordon took a couple of other Big M auto's to get the deal done.
Gordon got these;
07-08 The Cup Stanley Cup Signatures Frank Mahovlich
01-02 UD NHL Legends Frank Mahovlich auto
08-09 UD Masterpieces Brushstrokes Brown auto Frank Mahovlich

and I got my Orr auto from the Brushstrokes set.
It was a renewal of an o;d trading partnership that started back on the Beckett board 20+ years ago.
Bobby Orr Brushstrokes brown auto.


Cheers.
Dan.
 
Here's one that sticks out from the past...

Back in early days of CD players you could buy an adaptor to connect your Discman to your car. You had to put this adaptor, that looked like a cassette, into your cars cassette player and then you could play CD's through your car stereo.

Well I had one and upgraded to an in-dash disc player. You know, the type where you took off the faceplate and carried it around like we carry cell phones now. Anyway, the old CD player became available.

I was hanging out at Joe Daley's Sports Cards in Winnipeg talking cars with Joe's son Travis (who now runs the shop) and he was interested in my old CD player. And wouldn't you know it, they had a Jose Canseco rookie card I wanted. And that was the trade, my CD player for their Canseco rookie.

While both have gone down in value since then (this was in late 1989 or early 1990), I'd say I made out okay.

If you are ever at Joe Daley's in Winnipeg, ask Travis about the time he traded away the Canseco RC for a CD player, he remembers the deal and we both still get a laugh out of it. LOL
 
My best trade by far was trading my entire baseball collection(a monster box and a few binders full of late 80s and early 90s junk wax) in 1990 for a real wayne gretzky RC.
At the time the value was with the baseball as i had atleast a dozen John Olerud RCs amongst all the rest, but now im pretty sure i walked away a winner!.
 
Back when my buddy and I were collecting as teenagers around 2000, he was big into Patrik Stefan and I was (and still am) a Forsberg guy. He pulled a 4-clr patch out of Crown Royale and eventually dealt it to me for some (at the time) hot Stefan inserts.

I like to remind him of this trade every once in a while :laugh:
 
My most memorable trade is one I did on Facebook a long time ago..probably 10 + years ago.

Now I don't trade on there regularly unless I know the person, but there was this one guy posting his box breaks.
Of those wax pulls, was a card I wanted so bad, which was an Ales Hemsky 05/06 Artifacts auto/tag 1of1.
He was not sure he wanted to move it, but I was persistent. So I asked him who he collects and that was Patrick Roy.
I replied by saying I just happened to have his Avalanche Scripted Swatches from 05/06 The Cup, and the rest was history. I broke up my SS set that day to get a card I wanted even more, for what was a win/win trade.

Here is the scan of this awesome card, locked away in my Hemmer PC vault:

 

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