Your First Trade

[MetDream]

Can you remember your first trade? Tell me!

I just finished moving have of my Met DVDs into a 2nd shoe box (my son's skater shoes come in nice heavy cardboard boxes) and was amazed that I have enough to put into 2 boxes as it was not that long ago that I stumbled upon Metfuck and through it Metpage and made my first trade. And I mean stumbled, I had not clue that there was this whole bootleg trading world out there. I was a Metfan looking for a discussion forum to talk about my favorite band when I found Metfuk. Through it I joined MetCoverArt and started making cover art. When I fished my very 1st cover, I wanted to have the show to go with it, so I made a post here asking for a B&P. A guy who has since stopped trading answered my plea and sent me the show and a few others he said were nice shows to start off my collection.

[Doin]

I never knew what a bootleg was till 1990. A friend got hold of a cassette with Clif Final Gig. I loved it and couldn't stop listening to it. Then he went on a family trip to Surfers Paradise (in Queensland) and found a shop with vynil boots that would put them onto tape for you at a cost. He brought back a few more of other bands. I was intrigued by this whole concept of bootlegs and collecting live shows that weren't available to the public. Just after that I started going to record fairs and buying tapes and silver CD bootlegs. I then began copying them and bringing them to record fairs to sell in order to buy new stuff. I didn't make a profit but I met a great trader who I am still in touch with, and still meet up at fair with. The internet wasn't around then so I didn't trade. It wasn't till about 1994 when the internet came about when I sent an email to someone hosting a Morbid Angel website containing bootleg information. He posted the info as well as my email address. The requests started coming in and the trading began. In 1998 I made my own page and it's been proper trading since then.

[sorrowman]

I remember my first trade very well. It was with Fey-Metallica.

To summarize a long story, I had been aware of the whole bootleg thing for quite a few years, and in the beginning I was active on forumsone could download MP3 sourced bootlegs. As I was checking out these audio upload only forums I came across people mentioning MetFuk and MetPage and that beyond the world of audio bootlegs there was supposed to be another one dealing with videobootlegs. Well, being the fan I was, and still am, I wanted to check out this video business, so I registered @ MetFuk and MetPage. MetFuk didn't make any sence at first 'cause I knew shit about bittorrent and on top I didn't have a broadband connection at home, so I left that alone for a bit, MetPage on the other was at the time a forum that mostly dealt with snail-mail trades, so I figued I could handle that.

The Donington '95 show was and still is one of my all time favourite gigs. So, when I learned that next to the audio bootlegs a great videobootleg also existed of this gig I figured my first goal was to get the video right there. So at some point I think I may have just approached a few random people, among them was Fey-Metallica, and me and him settled a B&P deal for that much wanted Donington '95 show. The good thing about the whole deal was that me and him are both from the Netherlands, so all went down smooth and took less then a week time. Turned out that Donington '95 was a MASTER clone that not everybody had at that point in time, so I managed to setup a few small deals with a few others that included that relatively new Donington '95 MASTER.... so that was what kinda kick-started my collection in a way ....so Fey-Metallica is my main main THX a lot for helping me out back in the day.

I also recall when I first made my entree here @ MetPage people were a bit hesitant to do deals with me being a new Dutch trader, 'cause at the time this other Dutch guy (Jochem something if I remember correctly) was roaming the boards under different usernames and aliases ripping people off on purpose, so I guess it took some time and effort from my side to prove that I was a reliable trading partner, but I guess I've also managed that ...and thank god for that 'cause I wouldn't wanna miss all this video shit that's out there....it was a real revelation for me at the time I recall.

[Churchchair]

(Jochem something if I remember correctly) was roaming the boards under different usernames and aliases ripping people off

Jochem Degraaf. And he still is active on the internet. Sometimes he sends spammail to my mailaccount. Recently I asked him to stop and he answered me with a big Fuck you.

On topic now: My first trade.

VHS tapes in the mid 90's. I traded a lot with guy who's name was Pascal and he lived in Belgium too (Does someone knows him?).
DVD: 2004 with another belgian guy. Hetgod (actually I bought the dvd (30 euro)). Does this guy still lives? He was a member of metpage.
A few weeks after that I discovered this site and the first trade was with Neorr or MetallicaMadrid I think.

[sorrowman]

Luckily I never had the 'honor' to deal with this Jochem De Graaf guy in person, but from what I've been able to gather over the years he got himselfs quite a bad rep ripping people off and shit....what a piece of shit

[wolfway]

funny thing... that jochem de graaf once added me to his msn and we talked sometimes, seemed a nice dude to me... then i found out about him ripping of, and he still wanted to make a fair trade, sending first to me etc...

never ended up trading with him though

my first DVD trade was with creepingdeath1128, he sent me uniondale 86 for some mp3's i uploaded to him. basically he did it to give me my first DVD boot to start trading.

i did audio before but dnno about that. that was just internet trading

[Sepu]

uh uh nice question!!
My memory isn't good enough to remember that, it was probably around 2001 maybe? No idea lol

I just remember I started looking at bootlegs (audio) through the Metallica's garage room on Efnet.
There I found a few friends but my english wasn't enough good to talk a lot...

And finally I started collection audio stuff in mp3 format and a few on CD-ROM.

After all this I found (I don't remember how..) Metpage and then Metfuk.

The best places around to satisfy my bootlegs passion

[damage jackal]

i cant really remember my first date uhhh trade

i more of a doing favor, if i have a show, im open to send it away w/o anything in return

[FBM]

My first trade was i think in February/March 2007 with larshh06.
I only had 2 shows (New York 1999 and Donington 06, Proshot) and I think i was searching for Bremen 2004 and he gave me a link to traders with the shows, and then i saw he has Berlin 2006 so i asked if he wants these 2 shows for Berlin and yeah thats how i got my first show.

[Elmoz]

my first trade was woodstock 94 VCD i traded it with Infernal from turkey back in 2002. I was so happy because i was going to get that amazing show hehe.

good memories from the vcd days