Do you use penny sleeves in card savors

72skywalker

I am outting together a 1976 topps set raw and am keeping the cards in an old school set box. Once they go inthe box I will probably never go through them again or if I do it will once every so many years. I want to keep the big cards on top in card savors. do you use penny sleeves when you put them into the card savor and is there any thing I should be aware of when storing them for a long time in card savors. Last question is should I use top loaders instead?

Dnice

This question I always find odd. It’s really all about preference. Some will say they do and others will say they don’t. I have sent card to PSA in card savers and have gotten back 10's so it doesn’t make a difference. I prefer without out and plus, I think it not only looks better without but every time you put a card into a penny sleeve, you risk catching a corner and damaging the card I feel.

WhiteTornado

<< <i>This question I always find odd. It’s really all about preference. Some will say they do and others will say they don’t. I have sent card to PSA in card savers and have gotten back 10's so it doesn’t make a difference. I prefer without out and plus, I think it not only looks better without but every time you put a card into a penny sleeve, you risk catching a corner and damaging the card I feel. >>



With regards to the penny sleeve, I took another member's suggestion and started cutting a small slit at one of the top corners. Makes it so much easier to put the card in, plus it greatly minimizes risk of dinging a corner. With all that said, you can go either way, with or without sleeves. I tend to use them for my nicer/more expensive cards. Hope this helps.

lawnmowerman

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<< <i>This question I always find odd. It’s really all about preference. Some will say they do and others will say they don’t. I have sent card to PSA in card savers and have gotten back 10's so it doesn’t make a difference. I prefer without out and plus, I think it not only looks better without but every time you put a card into a penny sleeve, you risk catching a corner and damaging the card I feel. >>



With regards to the penny sleeve, I took another member's suggestion and started cutting a small slit at one of the top corners. Makes it so much easier to put the card in, plus it greatly minimizes risk of dinging a corner. With all that said, you can go either way, with or without sleeves. I tend to use them for my nicer/more expensive cards. Hope this helps. >>



What's even easier than cutting the penny sleeves is to just buy oversize sleeves meant for thicker cards. Saves time and labor needed to snip each sleeve. Cards go in easily with lots of room to spare.

Dusto

The only time I use a penny sleeve with a card saver is if the card saver has been used before. When the card saver is new, a card fits nice and snug and look great and clean.

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Cubby

How so Criss?

billwaltonsbeard

<< <i>Penny sleeves are more apt to damage a card than protect it. I hate them. >>



Yeah, those darn penny sleeves...always dinging the corners of all my favorite cards when I'm asleep.

I've never understood this. I've been putting cards into penny sleeves since I was a kid and have never had any kind of issue. Use your thumb and forefinger to create a small opening, stick one of the corners of the card in, and just let the rest of it slide in. And I didn't even study that in college!!

psychump

I put Life Savors in my card savors.

digicat

I always use penny sleeves.

grote15

You're just as apt to scratch the surface of a card sliding a card into a card saver without a sleeve as you are dinging a corner using a sleeve. I also feel the sleeve better protects the card for when PSA slides it out of the card saver on their end.

PMKAY

<< <i>You're just as apt to scratch the surface of a card sliding a card into a card saver without a sleeve as you are dinging a corner using a sleeve. I also feel the sleeve better protects the card for when PSA slides it out of the card saver on their end. >>



Agreed. The card savers have the name of the product in raised writing where you slide the card in and I've messed up a card or two bumping in to that.

gregm13

I personally always use penny sleeves. I think that it gives a little added protection to the card. Any my 2 cents about card saver vs. top loaders - I had a nightmare experience w/ a top loader 20 years ago and still hate them with a vengeance. I was lifting an 800 ct. box of my best cards (all in top loaders) from a shelf which proceeded to slip out of my hands and dump all over the floor. It was like a scene from the Matrix. My best pull ever, a 1997 UD Legends Tony Dorsett, flew past my grasping fingers and slammed into the floor. The card flew out of the top loader and one corner was mangled beyond recognition. I was so PO'd, that I switched over to CSI's and CS2's and threw away every top loader in my possession.

I had to sell the card because looking at it caused me such deep, and painful emotional pain (ok...being a little dramatic here...but you get the point).

Rgs,

Greg M.

dytch2220

I do not use penny sleeves inside my card savers. Without the penny it's much easier to insert the card into the sleeve, looks better, and my PSA results are pretty good overall so I don't think I'm losing anything by not using them.