Middle-earth CCG Trading Sites

Post by **Gwaihir** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:34 pm

ElricX wrote:Definitivly after Chris Cable site the best site is: www.tradecardsonline.com

I dunno; I can't help but find them weird..

they used the card data gathered mainly by Jim Montanus - as indicated in the sheet - (and nowadays updated by me), but they credit some bloke who's prolly done nothing but point them to the file on our website.

they never bothered to check on that data and thus ended up listing cards from Hands of the Healer etc, as well as translations of German promo's as if they were really printed. People trusting the site probably end up trading for them / chasing wild geese accordingly.

I couldn't find support for editions: limited / unlimited

their list of languages doesn't match the printed cards

their list of links is a 1:1 copy from the open directory project, but they don't bother mentioning that, as the ODP no doubt requires. In fact, they'd be better of linking to it, as that would keep their links more up to date..
This is just a first glance of course, but together this to me just doesn't give the place the credibility I'd be looking for in a trade center.

ElricX · Post by **ElricX** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:41 pm

Do you plan to contact them to correct this? I think this website provide some great feature for ccg fan... I can try to contact them but I'm a novice in the middle-earth ccg knowledge and I don't want to send bad informations...

Post by **Gwaihir** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:49 am

Just use Chris'

Post by **jhunholz** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:44 am

One thing I do like with that site is how it makes it easy to trade between games. Chris's page is great for trading MECCG for MECCG, but say I have a lot of Star Wars CCG and I want to trade them for MECCG, or anything else for that matter. This does open the trading field a bit more since you have multiple games to trade with.

...Just my 2 cents...

ElricX · Post by **ElricX** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:31 am

These feature already exist. But you must be a premium member to do that. But is really not expensive (like 12$/years)

The premium member features is:

As a Premium Member you get all the benefits of a Standard User, plus:
Access to the card matches search. You get the list of users whose cards match with yours for trades or for selling and buying. You can search at any moment which users of the web have cards you want, or want those you have, or both things at the same time. These are the users with whom you have more chances of arranging a trade or a buy/sell agreement.
Customization of the automatic report on possible trades. You have the option to stop receiving these emails or to receive them only when users are found who both have new cards that you want and want cards that you have.
Access to the history of all the messages you have exchanged with other users of the site, classified by user and sorted by date.
No processing cost on your first Protected Trade. We'll waive the fee for one Protected Trade in which you participate each month. This alone is a 0.80€ value.
Your own content on your personal page. You can write a text that will be shown on your public web page.
Your user name is highlighted with a golden star (). This way other users can see you are trading seriously, and will tend to send you more offers.
You help to maintain this site and keep it working.
And you also become a Premium member in Trade Cards Online where you get these same benefits to trade collectible cards.
Every standard user may become a Premium Member by paying a small fee: 1.2€ for one month, 6€ for 6 months, or 10€ for a year.