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Bob Franklin
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Hello!
I joined this board in 2008. For one reason or another, I stopped calling same year (Now, I think I may know why).
If new, potential members log in to check out the board and they don't see any trades being made or 2 or 3 posts being made per day, they won't call back. Eventually, the guys who own the board will get tired
of wasting their money and shut the board down just like several other boards have done over the years.
I have a Facebook group with about a dozen guys who were former members of a trading board that shut down in 2018. The owner of the board didn't give us any notice, she just closed it. Facebook was a feeble attempt to keep the trades coming.
Unfortunately, we lost most of our contacts and were not able to let the members know that we were starting a Facebook group. Anyway, the group idea is working but not the way a trading board works. We need
a board.
So, Chris has invited our group members to join Freedom Cardboard. I relayed the link and information to our members and some of them will be checking in soon to see if this would be a good place to resume their trading (Three or four of us have already logged in). Like I said earlier,
if they log in and see that nothing is going on, they won't hang around very long. I'm speaking from experience because this is exactly what happened to Peggy's board as well as Sports Card Arena - both shut down due to lack of use.
Here's your chance to gain a dozen or so new members and put a little action into this board. Start some conversations, leave a short story about how you collect Phillies when you live in Wisconsin or Red Sox when you live in California.
Start showing us what you collect and what you have to trade. Let the other members know what team or players you collect. Post some lists of what you need or what you have to trade. I posted a few things that I'm trading, I have thousands of cards so there's probably a good chance that I can find something that you need.
Let's put some life back into this board!
Bob
:razz:
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I joined this board in 2008. For one reason or another, I stopped calling same year (Now, I think I may know why).
If new, potential members log in to check out the board and they don't see any trades being made or 2 or 3 posts being made per day, they won't call back. Eventually, the guys who own the board will get tired
of wasting their money and shut the board down just like several other boards have done over the years.
I have a Facebook group with about a dozen guys who were former members of a trading board that shut down in 2018. The owner of the board didn't give us any notice, she just closed it. Facebook was a feeble attempt to keep the trades coming.
Unfortunately, we lost most of our contacts and were not able to let the members know that we were starting a Facebook group. Anyway, the group idea is working but not the way a trading board works. We need
a board.
So, Chris has invited our group members to join Freedom Cardboard. I relayed the link and information to our members and some of them will be checking in soon to see if this would be a good place to resume their trading (Three or four of us have already logged in). Like I said earlier,
if they log in and see that nothing is going on, they won't hang around very long. I'm speaking from experience because this is exactly what happened to Peggy's board as well as Sports Card Arena - both shut down due to lack of use.
Here's your chance to gain a dozen or so new members and put a little action into this board. Start some conversations, leave a short story about how you collect Phillies when you live in Wisconsin or Red Sox when you live in California.
Start showing us what you collect and what you have to trade. Let the other members know what team or players you collect. Post some lists of what you need or what you have to trade. I posted a few things that I'm trading, I have thousands of cards so there's probably a good chance that I can find something that you need.
Let's put some life back into this board!
Bob
:razz:
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