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Originally posted by paragondave:
I use MOTL. It's slowed down a bit but I still have a few trades a week pending. If everyone did, it would be as good as it was years ago. Everyone knows it is still EXACTLY the same except for a couple of rulings way back when. I wonder if they had anything to do with the drop off...

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Just figured I'm chime in with the perspective of a newer poster that has made quite a few trades in a relatively short time.

In my experience on this board, the vast majority of the 'bad' trades I've had (probably 7 of 8) are with people that have over 100 refs. And they weren't bad trades meaning the cards weren't received. They were bad trades in the manner that the other trader communicated, painfully slow shipping, refusal to give tracking info, general ignoring of messages and all around unprofessional behavior, etc.

Since the nature of MTG is that there are people shuffling in and out, how can a trading board expect to survive if a portion of the senior members are turning new people off from dealing with them, rather than setting a positive tone by being inviting and more professional than the average trader? From the perspective of a 2nd year trader here, this seems to be the biggest drawback of this board, and it's really the biggest reason I currently do more trading on Deckbox and Cardsphere than I do here.

Just food for thought and conversation.