Reaching burn out stage earlier than I thought. Figured the playoffs would give a trading card boost, but so far, all quiet.

After trying hard not to notice, I've seen that although the Avalanche have a plethora of fans, not many of them are serious card collector's around here. That makes it awful hard to move my duplicates in order to obtain stuff I don't have...leaving me only to buy and sell. Neither of which appeal to me like trading has.

Hard not to notice as well, that although the member numbers here have really taken off, that my new trade numbers have not increased in kind. I can only take that to mean that new collectors are only joining for the new stuff, not taking it up as team collectors, or looking to fill in past issues into their collections. That's really a shame.

I'll continue to check in on PMs for new trades thru the end of May, but lacking that, I'll be taking off until October and the start of the only sports season that matters again this year.