PucaTrade Has Achieved Net-Reduction in PucaPoints WRITTEN BY Eric Freytag

We are now removing more points from the economy than we’re creating each month. We’re still seeing tremendous success with the point-reduction features we’ve launched since September, and are now certain that the net point-reduction trend will continue into the future, accelerating with each new point-sink we launch.

We’re a bit behind schedule with our next feature that will remove points (Promoted Traders), but we’re making good progress and expect it to be released this month.

Here’s a closer look at the points removed by each of features that remove points, by day:

Trades were a bit down from what we were anticipating in October, with 228,675 cards sent down from September’s 259,584. We’re confident that continued initiatives on point-reduction will have a positive effect on trade, and that these metrics will be improved with time.

We’re also noticing that since the launch of Future Site, a higher proportion of cards with lower values are being traded than before Future Site launched. This appears to be related to the launch of package-sorting on the Send page, which makes it incredibly easy to send large quantities of lower-value cards.

We’re exploring ways to further incentivize the exchange of higher-value cards; which could include things like modifying our leaderboards to highlight the highest-value senders (in addition to the highest-quantity ones), formally supporting member-created prices or legitimizing bounties, or simply allowing people to set higher PucaValues for cards on their Wants lists.

Although it’s too early to move forward with any plan, this has been at the forefront of our thoughts and we remain committed to improving the system in every way we can to maximize trade for all PucaTrade members.