Morseth wrote:Thanks TyWooOneTime and Helios52 for the tips and advice. All very helpful!!
I'm still a tiny bit foggy on the site's matchmaking trade capability. So, until I join a "Community", I will not see any sort of recommended trading partners via Deckbox, regardless of my wish/trade lists and local setting (local, worldwide, etc)? I have not joined any "Communities" yet via the "People" menu. Currently, I don't see any recommended trade partners in any of my submenus in my user profile page, no matter what cards I add to my trade and wish lists.
I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that the site would match me up with people who only had local user accounts on Deckbox.org that needed cards that I am willing to trade, or cards that I need from them. So far, the only way I see to interact with other Deckbox users looking to trade is to inspect their profiles, one by one, via the "People" menu, then select their "Profile" page, and look at the bottom where it says "Trading Opportunities" (using Tradelist or Inventory). While this works, I know this must not be the proper way to do it because it would take forever inspecting user by user.
Which one of my Profile submenus will I see potential trading opportunities, once I have everything configured correctly and am a member of a community, etc?
Thanks so much again for the assistance!
As far as I know, once you join a group (ie the Reddit traders) it should populate a list on the bottom of your Profile that that will show the number of cards you can offer to someone in your tradelist and what they can offer you from your wishlist. Its been while since Ive joined so I dont really remember if there was something else I did to get that list.
Unfortunately that process you described is pretty accurate in being able to fine a active user with the cards you need. More often than not you can post a thread in either the Trading Post Forum or the Reddit Traders Forum about a cards your looking for and have people come to you if they have the card your asking about. You will still need to look at a person's profile to see what cards they have that might interest you but I think you will agree that having that list right on a person's profile to see the cards you each have to offer one another is either than on some other sites where you have to scroll through an entire list of cards someone posts to see if you can find something. Plus looking through a person's tradelist is half the fun of trading because you never know what you might find that interests you that you werent looking for.
If you are looking for a specific card say, "Fog" for example, if you click on anywhere where you have "Fog" listed (tradelist/inventory/wishlist) it will take you to the database with a detailed page of what "Fog" card does, its printed edition etc, and as you scroll down, you will see what users have "Fog" in their tradelist for trade and where they are located. This is probably the best way to find the exact card your looking for with someone who has it listed. I should note that some people don't populate their tradelist completely and are ok with trading from their inventory so there are more people who might have it but not have it in the tradelist.
Once your a member of a community, a link will appear on your profile (under My Profile) that will take you to the Community homepage in deckbox that will show its current members and its own forum that will show when a new thread is unread.
In all honestly this will be your best chance to find things your looking for from people because it is the most active and you will get a response the fastest.
EDIT: TyWooOneTime beat me to the reply before I finished mine lol.