POLL: Do you like tape on your toploaders?

c0LLect0r · June 19, 2003 6:33AM

Personally...I hate it. It makes them all sticky. What do you think?

HOFsigs · June 19, 2003 6:36AM

the first time someone sends you a $150 auto and it slides out of the top loader and gets bent you will change your mind...

autobilia · June 19, 2003 6:37AM

I dislike them also, but when trading or buying, you are not trading for/buying the top loader, you are trading for/buying the card. The top loader/penny sleeve is just part of the packaging. I personally use team bags (can store up to 4 toploaders in one team bag).

c0LLect0r · June 19, 2003 6:41AM

<< <i>the first time someone sends you a $150 auto and it slides out of the top loader and gets bent you will change your mind... >>

Then just put it in the kind of thing I sent to you. The outer covering thing that you put around the top loader.

Xtrainningscards · June 19, 2003 6:49AM

YES!!! I hate it, wish more would use team bags.

nismo68 · June 19, 2003 6:51AM

TEAM BAGS ARE THE BOMB DIGGITY!!!

Caricon · June 19, 2003 7:02AM

I don't mind using a piece of tape on the top of the top loader to protect the card from comming
out during shipping. I mostly expect it when I get a card in the mail too. I just reuse those
top loaders when I send something else back out.

Chillinbij · June 19, 2003 7:03AM

whatever caricon said, i would second that. perfectly said. this is unless the card is worth a lot and/or rare. for shipping only, obviously.

Bobstar · June 19, 2003 7:16AM

Just a suggestion. We use those leftover pack fillers; we put one on both sides of the toploader then securely tape the top & 1 side.
When the person gets the card all they have to do is remove the
pack filler from both sides & they have a top loader with no stickum on it & a card that was well protected during shipping.
The card fillers add stiffness while enroute & protect the card during mailing. When sending multiple cards the team bags are also very good. Hope this helps!

Allen · June 19, 2003 7:21AM

I do not keep the tape on them. When I recieve cards I put them in new toploads and team bags. I like to put a piece of tape on the top when sending because it will not let the card move at all in the topload. I then put it in a team bag. It is better to be safe than sorry.

dherm360 · June 19, 2003 7:50AM

hate the tape

seth2720 · June 19, 2003 7:50AM

I usually use use tape but make a tab out of the end so you can peel it off easily, then team bag it. Whatever it takes to get the card there in the condition it was sent in

Seth

duncangal · June 19, 2003 8:00AM

Hate tape!!

Undertaker · June 19, 2003 8:07AM

<< <i>Hate tape!!

>>

that's the first time I've ever seen you hating something

But I dislike tape as well.. (at least for storing my cards, when I send I usually put tape on the toploader(s))

Vincecarter15152 · June 19, 2003 8:09AM

i agree with hofsigs

if u are traded big put tape and secure the card, its worth it personally on big 1/1 trades i send in screwdowns so that nothing can happen.

mrmr · June 19, 2003 8:38AM

Instead of tape, I use those small (about 1/2") Avery labels.
They peel off real easily, and a package of about 500 of them only costs a couple of bucks.
I just fold it over the top of the top loader, and the person receiving the card can peel it right off.

braves72078 · June 19, 2003 8:41AM

<< <i>the first time someone sends you a $150 auto and it slides out of the top loader and gets bent you will change your mind... >>

That is why people should use team bags.

Vincecarter15152 · June 19, 2003 8:46AM

yea but tape works the same ? if not better so why do u care what the toploader looks like as long as the card stays mint

c0LLect0r · June 19, 2003 11:34AM

I'm all about putting paper around the top loader then taping the paper. I haven't done that in a while but it works very well

Quasar31 · June 19, 2003 11:52AM

just 2 words TEAM BAGS !!!!!!!

Quasar31 · June 19, 2003 11:53AM

and dont dare send me cards unless its in a bubble mailer

POLL: Do you like tape on your toploaders?

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