Hey so I would like to get into trading! Thing is I have no clue what I'm doing! I don't have a lot of rare or hard to find beers. I live in south central pa, York county.
Just make a post in the trading forum with this title FT: List (examples, etc) ISO: Locals (examples, etc) In the thread title replace the word "examples" with beers you have or reasonable beers you are looking for. For example: "FT: list (pizza boy, flatheads, etc) ISO: Locals (zombie dust, Pliny, jester king shelf, etc) In the thread body list every (good) local beer you have access to and just say you are looking to go $4$ (That means dollar for dollar, as in you both send the same value in beer) against any appealing beer you can't get. Try to make a list of beers you are interested in trying. Someone may offer you something else and that's fine, bottom line is you don't want to come off as lazy. plus being vague may be interpreted as an auction even though that's kinda silly in a locals trade. State in the post that you are willing to ship first if the other person has established feedback. Answer EVERY message you get, even if you aren't interested. If the first offer you get is fair but it's for a beer you haven't heard of... Just take it. The experience is valuable and exploring is fun. Build relationships, continue to trade with people who don't try to take advantage of you. It's pretty likely you will be trading with other new to trading folks and that you'll grow together. It's fun to start a relationship with a person doing locals and a year later be strategizing shippers for all the limited releases the two of you can hit. People say local trades are harder to do now in here... but they do get done. I have a few trade partners where all we ever do is locals. Plus if you stick with locals and premium shelf you can easily replace any damaged or missing shipments while you work through the learning curve that is beer shipping.
