Friday, February 13, 2004
This is the article I wrote about my site for free publication:
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* If you post this article on a website, you must set the first occurrance of the 'Trade Cards Online' name as a hyperlink to http://www.tradecardsonline.com/im/article1. Please send me the URL or your website.
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Trading cards made easy.
Collectible card games are a combination of two hobbies: playing strategy games, and collecting. Most of us enjoy both at the same time, but there are many people who don't care about collecting the whole sets and just want to play the game. And yet others who have no time or interest to play, and enjoy the collecting of those beautiful pieces of cardboard.
But whatever your interests are, one thing you'll have to do sooner or later is trading cards! Unless you have a really deep pocket, you won't be able to get all the cards you need, either for that perfect deck, or to complete your collection, by buying boosters and singles. You'll want to trade those cards you have no use for in exchange for those you need. And in fact, trading is in itself another enjoyable activity. You interact with people, discuss all aspects of the cards and the game with your prospect traders, make friends,... and sometimes you even get a bargain!
Here, like in many other aspects, the Internet has changed the way we do things. Most people nowadays trade cards with other players and collectors they meet on the net. The web has greatly expanded our possibilities as we can now trade with people all over the world and not only with those we meet at our local shop or regional tournaments. But it has introduced other differences too, because, for example, we can not take our binders and our card-full boxes with us when we surf the waves; we have to build a list of those cards and compare names instead of the actual items. This is a tiresome task and a strain to our eyes, especially to be performed on a computer screen. But on the other hand, it's a perfect task for those very computers on which we traverse the net. A computer could easily compare two lists of cards and find all the matches between them, informing their owners about cards one of them has that the other person wants. Furthermore, computers could keep a complete database of the existing cards and let you build these very lists by just selecting the cards from the whole sets. This way you don't have to write down their names, and you can also sort and explore the resulting list in many ways.
This is precisely what the web site Trade Cards Online offers. A fully automated card list building and card matching engine that makes trading online as easy as it can be. You just use their comprehensive database of cards to build your lists of haves and wants with an easy point-and-click interface, and then match your collections with those of hundreds of other people, to get the list of those cards you can get from them and those cards you can offer them. Then you can contact those people privately, but without revealing your personal information (nor even your e-mail address) through the provided messaging system, until you reach an agreement on a good trade.
Furthermore, this site also performs automatically for you the searches for the cards you need. You can just sit back and relax while Trade Cards Online keeps an eye on any new cards that are offered for trade and notifies you whenever it finds someone with whom you will want to arrange a trade. It's just that easy!
And Trade Cards Online is more than a useful tool for your trading activities. It's a thriving community of traders where you can chat about your common hobby and exchange ideas and comments in forums, and where you build trust by easily exchanging references with those with whom you traded successfully. And it's also a marketplace for you to buy and sell cards, where you can exchange instant payments with other users and protect your purchases with their exclusive Protected Trades service.
So Trade Cards Online is the complete solution offered by the web to the player and collector of cards. Trading just became so much easier!
To round it all up: "If you want to trade cards online, you need to join Trade Cards Online".
About the Author:
Clemente Zamora is the webmaster of Trade Cards Online
The site where trading collectible cards is made easy!
TERMS OF REPRINT
You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included and you follow these rules:
* If you post this article on a website, you must set the first occurrance of the 'Trade Cards Online' name as a hyperlink to http://www.tradecardsonline.com/im/article1. Please send me the URL or your website.
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Trading cards made easy.
Collectible card games are a combination of two hobbies: playing strategy games, and collecting. Most of us enjoy both at the same time, but there are many people who don't care about collecting the whole sets and just want to play the game. And yet others who have no time or interest to play, and enjoy the collecting of those beautiful pieces of cardboard.
But whatever your interests are, one thing you'll have to do sooner or later is trading cards! Unless you have a really deep pocket, you won't be able to get all the cards you need, either for that perfect deck, or to complete your collection, by buying boosters and singles. You'll want to trade those cards you have no use for in exchange for those you need. And in fact, trading is in itself another enjoyable activity. You interact with people, discuss all aspects of the cards and the game with your prospect traders, make friends,... and sometimes you even get a bargain!
Here, like in many other aspects, the Internet has changed the way we do things. Most people nowadays trade cards with other players and collectors they meet on the net. The web has greatly expanded our possibilities as we can now trade with people all over the world and not only with those we meet at our local shop or regional tournaments. But it has introduced other differences too, because, for example, we can not take our binders and our card-full boxes with us when we surf the waves; we have to build a list of those cards and compare names instead of the actual items. This is a tiresome task and a strain to our eyes, especially to be performed on a computer screen. But on the other hand, it's a perfect task for those very computers on which we traverse the net. A computer could easily compare two lists of cards and find all the matches between them, informing their owners about cards one of them has that the other person wants. Furthermore, computers could keep a complete database of the existing cards and let you build these very lists by just selecting the cards from the whole sets. This way you don't have to write down their names, and you can also sort and explore the resulting list in many ways.
This is precisely what the web site Trade Cards Online offers. A fully automated card list building and card matching engine that makes trading online as easy as it can be. You just use their comprehensive database of cards to build your lists of haves and wants with an easy point-and-click interface, and then match your collections with those of hundreds of other people, to get the list of those cards you can get from them and those cards you can offer them. Then you can contact those people privately, but without revealing your personal information (nor even your e-mail address) through the provided messaging system, until you reach an agreement on a good trade.
Furthermore, this site also performs automatically for you the searches for the cards you need. You can just sit back and relax while Trade Cards Online keeps an eye on any new cards that are offered for trade and notifies you whenever it finds someone with whom you will want to arrange a trade. It's just that easy!
And Trade Cards Online is more than a useful tool for your trading activities. It's a thriving community of traders where you can chat about your common hobby and exchange ideas and comments in forums, and where you build trust by easily exchanging references with those with whom you traded successfully. And it's also a marketplace for you to buy and sell cards, where you can exchange instant payments with other users and protect your purchases with their exclusive Protected Trades service.
So Trade Cards Online is the complete solution offered by the web to the player and collector of cards. Trading just became so much easier!
To round it all up: "If you want to trade cards online, you need to join Trade Cards Online".
About the Author:
Clemente Zamora is the webmaster of Trade Cards Online
The site where trading collectible cards is made easy!
