TG X

I have done
X for OG life’s distraction 1:1
Proxied X for forager magnus 1:1
And have a trade lined up for Millerzzzzz 1:1

 

One thousand "likes" for this. Best post I've read in awhile.

 

I do agree with you, my quoting secondary values comes from a desire to ensure both sides are treated fairly in a trade, not from a "Max Profits" point of view. I always would hate to feel I had taken advantage of someone (not saying this is the case with your trade at all).

 

I am sure that This will all get scrubbed since it is off topic, and I intend to post this in the trade talk forum (on the TVT thread), but...here goes:

Secondary is pretty frustrating at times for a few reasons:

1) for those that don’t do secondary, trade values are not the same as secondary. Secondary only captures the market of the people selling. The lack of people selling compared to trading makes the market incomplete, distorting it at times.

2) secondary can be pretty easy to manipulate, but regardless, the biggest issue is that there isn’t a secondary clearinghouse because that shit is illegal. So, everyone looks at different sources, everyone has different information, and some portion of the time people really tend to quote the higher on the bottle they have and lower on the bottle they want - which is often hard to dispute since...there’s no central clearing house.

3) when people trade secondary, people seem to prefer to nickle and dime. It’s bat shit that if one guy has a bottle that is supposedly 200 secondary, and another has one that is 220 secondary, that the one with the 220 will ask for a plus. Really? For a supposed 10% discrepancy on what may be a $4$ and virtually value for value trade? Just seems stupid to me. This gets at the pettiness of people that stick to secondary hard core, and is part of what @odcardinal is getting at.

No ill will specifically directly at you.

 

This 100%. I use secondary as a reference point when making offers but have never cared about small differences here and there. I almost always back out of trades when someone starts to make a fuss over $20 differences and the like