TOPIC: Trades up to 5/30 with weaverjk/JKW have Shipped

<br />FYI for those of you I've been trading with (sorry, too many to send PMs while I'm at work):  <br /><br />The Priority Mail was picked up by the postal carrier today.<br /><br />Enjoy.<br /><br />I may hold off on posting trade data until 1) I have received tokens in exchange; and 2) after I complete a full platinum set.<br /><br />Thank you all!  JKW

Hurry up and finish already John...some of the rest of us would like to trade a little too!

I'll be heading to the P.O. on Sat.  Do we think we need to be concerned re: tokens going thru the postal machines?<br />

LOL - I was JUST typing that you should let us know when your PLAT set is done so the rest of us can work on our PLAT sets, but my Bro beat me to the punch   =D

Chuckle - almost, I hope.<br /><br />I'm waiting on two responses and then I need to put together two lists for others.<br /><br />I'm getting there!    Hopefully, I'm helping a bunch of people in the process.<br /><br /><br />Shipping:  I modified my customary behaviour here, thanks to Smakdown.  If I had a small box, I used it.  Otherwise, tokens were wrapped in paper, surrounded by cardboard flats, taped up, and placed in a flat-rate Priority shipping envelope for mailing.<br />The envelopes were stiff, tokens won't fall out, and all should be well.  <br /><br />John<br />JKW

If by helping you mean monopolizing 90% of the trades and making such "good" (aka - insane) trades that no one else can play...then I guess you are helping.<br /><br />I'll just be glad when you are done John so some of the rest of us can play too.<br /><br />No hard feelings - I'm just giving you "the business" to go along with that PLAT set you are working so hard to complete.<br /><br />Good luck!<br />G

I clearly made a tactical error trying to complete a PLAT set - I'd have been much better off trading you all my PLATs for double or more of their value  ;/

See, I'm not a trader!  I do not get the money-saving deals for myself nor do I minimize my loss.  <br /><br />One time, I don't know what I was thinking - I think I took a quick look at this for that but did NOT pull up the GP value - somene made out with about a six to one or ten to one ratio!<br />All the rest of the trades have been on the same platform - same multiplier.  I don't know what I was thinking with that one.  However, I didn't feel right modifying it once it was proposed.<br /><br />I wasn't sure what the going rate was going to be, so I came up with one that I thought would make the people giving up their plats happy and would net me the tokens I wanted.<br /><br />Hey, I did offer to trade with you.    Still will if you want to swap plats.<br />

You were just inquiring about PURP trading I thought, I didn't realize you were interested in PLATs.  I'd be very interested in trading PLAT's.  Take a look at my list of what I have (go way down onto page two of the Treasure Token forums to Steele's Trading Post).  I'll easily trade my duplicate PLATs, and feel free to make an offer any of the non-duplicates, or Ultra-Rares.  I can get the list of Gold Rares as well if you're interested.  Here's my PLATs and Ultra-Rares:<br /><br />Ultra-Rares:<br />Ring of Focus (2007)<br />+2 Great Axe (2007)<br />+2 Great Axe (2006)<br />750 GP Diamond (Qty. 2) (2006)<br />Potion of Cure Lt Wounds 10 Pts (2006)<br />Cloak of Displacement (2006)<br />300 GP Ruby Gem (2005)<br />Savior Stone (Qty. 2) (2006)<br />+2 Quarterstaff (2005)<br /><br />Platinum Rares:<br />+1 Bastard Sword<br />Ioun Stone<br />Amulet of Thorns<br />+1 Short Sword (2)<br />Wand of Slow<br />Potion of Death's Door (2)<br />+2 Cloak of Resistance<br />Ring of Fortitude (2)<br />+1 Great Axe (2)<br />Potion of Dwarven Mead (2)<br />Scroll of Chain Lightning (2)<br />Scroll of Keen Edge<br />Wand of Frost<br />+1 Scimitar (3)<br />Boots of Elvenkind<br />Thunderstone<br /><br />Platinum Uncommons:<br />Half Plate (4)<br />Scythe (2)<br />Great Sword (2)<br />Sleep Arrow<br />Longbow<br />Great Helm<br />5 Platinum Pieces<br />Major Rumor (2)<br />50 GP Jasper Gem (2)<br />Universal Solvent<br />25 GP (2)<br />Masterwork Bard's Instrument<br />50 GP Jade Gem<br />+1 Cloak of Resistance<br />Scroll of Knock (2)<br />Potion of Cat's Grace (2)<br />Scroll of Bless<br />Scroll of Cure Light Wounds<br />Scroll of Remove Disease<br />Scroll of Remove Curse<br />Smokestick<br /><br />Common Plats:<br />36 of the 40, many in multiples

<br />Please see http://truedungeon.com/trueforum/index.php?topic=2469.0 for my PLAT haves and wants.<br /><br />Great, Mike.  Yeah; I only have 19i more plats go to.  When I started out, I think I was missing about 40 or so.<br />I posted my Wish List (WISH being the key word) of URs.<br />I also posted my haves and wants list for Plats.  <br /><br />I'll look it over and we'll see what we can do.  Thanks.<br /><br />Right now, I just want to fill up the holes.  The easiest (and cheapest) way to do that is to swap extra plats with another person whom has extra plats.<br /><br />

John, you recommend the stiff envolope, not padded?<br /><br />Brian<br /><br />BTW - hoody hoo!<br />

The issue with envelopes was with the wooden tokens.<br />During two such shipments from someone else to me, one wooden token snapped in two (an elixer of life and a ghoul tongue, which may be why I've misplaced the tongue).<br />With wooden tokens, I always used boxes.<br /><br />With the new tokens, I took a page from Smakdown and modified it slightly.<br />Especially when I had bunches of 8-10 tokens, this was very useful.<br />I went to the post office and grabbed a stack of their Priority flat rate envelopes.<br />These were not padded.  I think (without measuring) the small envelopes were about 10" wide by 4.5" tall.  They had bigger sizes for letter-sized paper too.<br />I cut out two pieces of cardboard (found box in a dumpster at the local hardware store - at least I didn't use the piece that had bird poo on it!  everything I sent was clean) to smaller dimensions than the inside of the envelope.  As the envelope will beforced to expand, you'll need clearance at the sides as well as the top and bottom.<br />Not wanting the tokens to stick to the tape, I laid a white sheet of paper on the bottom cardboard, placed the tokens on the sheet of paper, wrapped the paper around the tokens, laid the 2nd piece of cardboard on top, taped both ends, and taped the sides in one or more places as needed.  I stuffed this into the envelope.  Went to www.usps.com/postageonline , (created an account) printed shipping labels, paid for the postage on-line, and scheduled free pick-up service where my carrier picked up the items from my house the next day.<br />He even read the special instructions, which was to "Knock Loudly (doorbell broken)."<br />I haven't checked it out yet, but each shipment came with delivery confirmation and, because I selected the free option, supposedly, some sort of SCAN service where they scan the package along the route so you can see where the package is.  <br /><br /><br />Of course, at $4.60 each, I spend about $3.00 more on each than I really needed to had I boxed it up in my own boxes, taken it to the post office, and shipped it ground/first class.<br /><br />