This list isn’t comprehensive by a long shot, but here’s a list of some terms I use when describing trades. Nothing earth shattering, like “bipping” someone (hat remains tipped towards Thorzul), but just some terminology I’ll throw out from time to time.
- team dump : “Hey, I’m sending you every single [insert team name] that I’ve got.”
- prisoner exchange : this is where the Yankees collector trades with the Red Sox collector, for instance
- shotgun trade : a slew of random stuff is sent, in hopes that several hit the mark
- PTBNL : the trade is still open, knowing that another card(s) will be sent later to round out the trade
- wing-and-a-prayer : “I’m going to mail him this card and hope that the card he says he’s sending me is [insert desired card].”
- dosey-doe swap : a long-standing trade with packages that keep getting sent back-and-forth, sometimes over months
- make-good package : a later mailing that cleans up some loose ends from a previous trade(s)
- junk wax extravaganza : name says it all; often times associated with a team dump
- feel-good mailing : unsolicitedly hitting up someone’s want list with no expectation of a return package
Feel free to use ’em (they’re free!), and post a few of your favorites in the comment section.
In a surprise gesture from White Sox Cards, a package arrived the other day containing a make-good PTBNL (see above). I don’t need to get into the hows and whys of it, but what made this package unexpected was that there was a SECOND player to be named later as well!
left to right: 2008 Upper Deck A Piece of History Cut from the Same Cloth #CSC-JH Andruw Jones/Torii Hunter [04/99]; 2010 Topps T-206 Mini Relic #TR-KS Kevin Slowey, might want to up the SPF
Dude, how very AL Central of you! 😉 I’ve already started stock-piling more stuff for you. Looks like a dosey-doe in the works…
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Ha! Funny.
I’ve been ‘lopsided’ a couple of times. Meaning, I received way more than was necessary to fill out a trade package. The resulting guilt often leads to a make-good, and then a dosey-doe.
Oh, absolutely right. I think ‘lopsided’ can apply to more than one type of trade initially, but you’re right about make-goods generally following them up.
I think I’ve done just about all of them at this point.
Love your defenitions!