Card protectors

[Slammin' Sammy]

So thanks to everyone who's helped. I purchased my first big batch of cards. Bought the Ultrapro 4x6 toploaders. Since I only play online I decided to put tag teams in one sleeve together. Do you think this may damage the cards in anyway? Does anyone else do this?

[malicelover]

May 7, 2022 14:27:21 GMT -5 executioner said:

I like 5x7 photo or post card soft sleeves from BCW or UltraPro. I have not had great luck with hard sleeve.

The 4x6 from BCW are actually 4x6. The Ultra Pro 4x6 are slightly wider, so they fit the FG card sizes perfectly. That's the brand to use.

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I bought the ultra pro 4x6 soft sleeves and the cards did not fit.

[paul]

Dec 27, 2023 15:48:46 GMT -5 @hoss said:

I bought the ultra pro 4x6 soft sleeves and the cards did not fit.

I got burned by those too. You have to get the UltraPro 4x6 hard plastic sleeves in order for the cards to fit.

Those are rather expensive though so I usually go with the 5x7 UltraPro soft sleeves instead. There's some extra room in those so the cards do move around a bit but I haven't had any of them get dinged up by the movement.

[throwingtoasters]

Dec 27, 2023 15:48:46 GMT -5 @hoss said:

I bought the ultra pro 4x6 soft sleeves and the cards did not fit.

Ultra Pro for Hard Sleeves. Not soft sleeves.
BCW for soft sleeves.  Not hard sleeves.

Really weird that it works that way but can confirm after buying them all. lol

[~KB~]

4x6 Ultra Pro 'soft sleeves' do NOT fit.

If you want 'soft' sleeves, you need BCW Continental postcard sleeves. 4 3/8" x 6 1/4"

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Ah. Ok. Thank you.

[jobber83]

I use the 4x6 Ultra Pro hard plastic top loaders, but when they had that period of time where they were hard to find, I went to a large page side sleeve. Sorry, but it's the best way I can describe it as I'm not home at the moment. It basically is one page with sleeves that are meant to be put into a three-ring binder. You fit 2 cards, obviously, to a page and they come with 100 per package, so 200 cards at a time can be put in there safely/securely.

In fact, I put my entire Chikara collection into those sleeves & have them all in a Chikara labeled binder. I also did that with my bootlegs, my LOW women sets, my entire ROH collection & all my promoter prime cards. Each has their own binder. I am also considering doing it with all of my LOW sets. I like the hard plastic top loaders, but collection having their own binder is way easier to store and locating cards would be much easier because I am storing all my sets currently in binders in order of the set they were in. So it is something I am considering doing this Saturday. Removing all my LOW cards in the Ultra Pro and putting them in the 2-card sleeve and in their own binder.

[Chad Olson]

I use the same 2 to a page binder pages as jobber83, but I put two cards in each page back to back, so I can put four cards per page. Saves me lots of room on binders!

I use these binders instead of a standard one, because they're enclosed and keep cards a little safer. They're expensive, but they're worth it, in my opinion.

www.amazon.com/UniKeep-Ring-Binder-Overlay-Binders/dp/B01789E5F6/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3AKO22448V179&keywords=three%2Bring%2Bbinder%2Bunikeep%2B1.5%2Bspine&qid=1703780220&sprefix=three%2Bring%2Bbinder%2Bunikeep%2B1.5%2Bspine%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-5&th=1

I recommend the ones with the metal rings instead of plastic ones, but I can't seem to find any on Amazon right now. Also like jobber83, I keep my sets organized by promotion for the Indies, and by era for GWF/CPC/aCe/etc. For my Legends official and bootlegs cards, I do keep them in the hard plastic sleeves and in some photo boxes I got from Hobby Lobby and Michaels. I just filled my fourth Legends box with Legends Expansion XI and 2023 Pro Prime.

[Sinclair Promotions]

I just bought a box of the UltraPro 4x6 Top Loaders. I found a store in a town over that can get them from their supplier within a week. If there is enough interest I can bring a box to Galacticon in the summer.