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Me too. What's the price?

Well if you don't get any offers I may be willing to buy some individual cards. Good luck

Yeah, right now the feedback system right now doesn't really do anything other than completely shut down someone who gets a negative (or even a neutral).

Ideally I'd like to see neutral be used for the majority of trades, +1 if the trader is really friendly, generous, etc., and -1 for bad trades. Then have an easier way to see their detailed feedback. This would only work if feedback was hidden until given by both parties, as then you'd have no personal incentive to give someone a +1. It would act like a compliment/reward for exceptional trades.

I believe a system like this would encourage people to be friendly and yield better trades, and it would allow people see how good of a trader someone is (instead of just how many trades they've made). Lets say someone has made 20 trades and they have a feedback score of:

• 0 (all neutral): I'd have no qualms about trading with them. They may not be very personable or whatever, but they haven't made any bad trades so why not trade with them?

• +9 (10 positive, 1 negative): I'd still trade with them despite their -1. It wouldn't shut them down from trading because it could have been a fluke or something, considering they've had 10 good trades. At a glance they'd look like better traders than the first guy, too, since they have net positive feedback.

• +15 (all positive): I'd jump through hoops to trade with them. It's obvious that other people really enjoyed trading with them and complimented them with the +1s for it (and they'll get rewarded with trade requests from more people because of this).

/$.02

Edit: This would also make the feedback system a lot clearer, especially for new people. I've had a few trades where hardly any words were exchanged between us. Not to say that there's anything wrong with this - the cards were sent in a timely fashion and arrived in good condition, but I'm sure we both walked away feeling neutral about it. Yet the feedback system pretty much requires a positive feedback, which has made it essentially a "not awful" feedback and not a commendation for a really good trade like I believe it should be.

True, but my post office charges about $2 minimum to ship them. I use them for trades of >$10 or for a lot of cards, but I started using pretty much the same method you described for cheaper trades. I'd rather buy the cards at my LGS and support them than waste ~50% of a trade's value on shipping.