OT: Top Loaders Shortage

[RL]

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showth...hipping+decoys


If anyone needs any decoys for shipping / drawing / in person autographs, I have what you are looking for! I use the same material as Panini / Topps / Upper Deck uses.

Who has time to cut up USPS boxes? I know I sure don't!

These are premium, high quality, bright solid white, blank, normal card size (2.5" x 3.5") decoys.

I have 2 sizes available, 50 pt (1.5 millimeters thick) & 100 pt (3 millimeters thick).

The 100 pt are the same thickness as what is used in packs of cards.

Pricing for 50 pt, which includes shipping:
75 Decoys - $17
175 Decoys - $35
400 Decoys - $70
800 Decoys - $125
1200 Decoys - $165

Pricing for 100 pt, which includes shipping:
38 Decoys - $14
90 Decoys - $30
225 Decoys - $55
400 Decoys - $85
600 Decoys - $120


I am not the person selling these

[steve B]

I have a paper cutter, and when I was active on ebay I would also get lots of packages coming in.

Cutting some 3x4 pieces took very little time, I'd cut maybe 50-100 of them or however many I had a few scraps of cardboard for.

Did the same with postcard size pieces, and a few others like paperback books if I had a chunk that would fit.

I've received cards where the shipper used a team bag, and a stack of 80's-90's commons as the stiffener. A nice little bonus and a good way for then to get rid of junkwax commons.

The best was a batch of British cards, maybe a thousand or so. The box was a large flat rate box.
The packing material? maybe a thousand 1991 Score baseball and some other cards, Plus a 91 score set in a binder...

[JollyElm]

Food for thought...

For you guys with the 'dollar boxes' (which I frickin' love digging through BTW), have you thought of just addressing the problem head on? For instance, since everyone knows that all card prices have been skyrocketing, could you just up the prices of your discount boxes? If it's usually $1 a card, just make it $1.50? Would that tick off your usual customers, most if not all of whom are aware of what's going on with the toploader prices? Just post a sign explaining the situation. Or how about a toploader exchange thing. Post a sign stating that your prices have taken into account the drastic rise in toploader prices, so a buyer is welcome to buy the card WITHOUT the toploader for a twenty cent (or whatever) reduction? Or, since many of us bring all sorts of our own holders to shows (to house the cards we buy), you can take the twenty cents off of the price if the buyer hands you one of their own toploaders as a replacement?

Just some ideas.

[frankbmd]

I can deal with

Israel and Hamas
Iran
Russia
China
and
North Korea.
I'd even watch Lady Gaga strip

but for heaven sakes do not mess with my Top Loaders

[egri]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

I can deal with

Israel and Hamas
Iran
Russia
China
and
North Korea.
I'd even watch Lady Gaga strip

What about Turkey?

[Peter_Spaeth]

I would draw the line at Gaga.

[RedsFan1941]

“crisis”

lol