This will be my last post in this thread. I wanted to acknowledge the folks that helped my achieve what I did in GT5 and I was agonizing over how to do that. Turns out that the three guys I would put on the top of any "thank you" list were already at the top of this one. So, I am posting my final trade numbers. Somewhere around 300 "one for one" trades represented here. Please note that those top three would be way farther out front if I counted all the donations and random acts of kindness dished out.
A few others I'd like to thank that aren't on this list:
Hoodfield - the trunk of my trading tree. In coaching they often talk about coaches as coming from one tree or another. If I trace my trading lineage it would be through ch1potle to Hoodfield. What I like to call the "Pay It Forward" tree.
Famine, encoded, segovia, TornadoAlley, CLIBBY34, and the rest of the UCD database gang - Famine for starting the thread and the initial research. Encoded for creating and updating the GTCars website which was my initiation into the concept of a UCD database. The others for introducing me to actual database, maintaining it, and contributing to an invaluable piece of the GT5 trading puzzle.
garbuckle - for the Matrix. Before Duck's color/car combo sheet this was my main inventory tool. Still an invaluable tool with all that's in there.
cslacr, and praiano - for keeping me chest-deep in good tunes to keep me as fast as my skills would allow. I am admittedly a huge fan of cslacr, but praiano was always a welcome resource as well. They both kept me flush with credits by keeping me in front of the AI in the seasonals.
To ch1p, Rob, and Paul I offer special thanks. I don't know what more I could say here that hasn't already been said by me and others, so I'll leave it at, "You know why." They were with me from my beginning in GT5 and they are still here at the end.
Also, to oldbloke007, gazelle68, chug-a-bug, and s0ul_chicken. Oldbloke and gazelle for reminding me as much as anyone that this is a game for anyone, of any age, in any locale. I hope I find you active when GT6 makes its debut. To chug-a-bug for being my first legitimate trade and to s0ul_chicken for being my last.
Rob192005 66
ch1potle 27
Duck 27
supra725 22
Han_the_Dragon 17
Chico acsc* 14
doobieduck 13
SQLNinja 12
rperrone* 10
gazelle68* 9
ID_racing 8
s0ul_chicken* 7
DiersZee1* 5
oldbloke007* 4
mariorip1977 3
willy723* 3
CostasDrifter 2
Igwayana 2
StarLight 2
Nitrous ox 2
Joswagen1991 2
lrn 2
Carl3456 1
christara321 1
chug-a-bug 1
danjee 1
Euronymous616 1
Finduszip* 1
MarcosChelas 1
mikeeesf 1
Monatsende 1
Outeke 1
tadlock 1
XSLOANKETTERMAN1
salikriaz 1
ZachAttack1991 1
fillmore85 1
Pottert 1
jstanford124 1
DurWinning 1
GTCam 1
Thomasss95* 1
USDM* 1
Moontallico 1
Silver10 1