the_wizard_666 wrote:If you're willing to work a deal with a Canadian, I'll happily propose a trade with you. Found a few cards not on my wishlist and am sure we can come to an agreement. I can also provide an extra playset or two of Darksteel Citadel for future decks, since you say you love it and I have over 50 of them (bought a LOT of Darksteel back in the day ). Let me know and I'll work up an offer
I have nothing against Canadians, but I have to be a bit picky about trades to Canada. Generally if I'm trading to Canada I like for the trade to be $10-20. Under $10 and it's not worth it to send, over $20 and you may have to pay import/customs fees or taxes. (There's some wiggle room on the 'value' here since it all depends on what's on the Customs form, i.e. TCG Low value could be used). If it's more than a couple of cards it's going to cost me $6 to ship, but I don't want to trade down a $15 card for a pile of $1 cards either. Ideally I can do small stuff for small stuff as long as it's cheaper to trade than it is to buy the things.
There's a trade on my completed list called "Small Trade to Canada", which is a good example, a bunch of small low value cards that I don't think I'll ever use for a bunch of small low value cards that I can put in decks. I think it cost me $5-$6 to ship, but the total value was $12, and the cost to buy the things using the optimize tool on TCG Player was around $10. Still not a major savings over just buying the cards, but what I was giving up was not useful to me at all, and the person I was trading with was trying to complete sets.
So yeah, I'll trade to Canada, but I may be more picky about it.