Top Loader vs Card Saver for vintage?

[steve B]

For me, toploaders, usually with penny sleeves. or not if it went in the toploader back when I was even cheaper than I am now.

The cardsavers I could get didn't fit the boxes I use well at all. Too tall for the shoebox boxes, and both too tall and too wide for the old 3200count that fit toploaders really well. The 3200 counts I can get now don't even fit toploaders because of the width being just barely too wide.

Not every card gets a holder either, 50's beaters won't get much worse just being in the box, and I'm gradually putting the not so beat stuff into sleeves.

[Zach Wheat]

Most of my cards are in binders. For loose cards, I use penny sleeves and then use both top loaders and card savers, depending upon perceived value. I am always concerned with dinging corners when placing cards in card savers - so most end up in top loaders.

[Exhibitman]

I have horrible luck removing cards from top-loaders. Way too easy to hairline crease the top center of the card.

My good cards go into mylar anyway. Not as strong but better for the cards.

[rjackson44]

i use tall boy holders for all i like them

[Eric72]

I'm a bit late to the party; however, figured I'd weigh in.

I briefly tried Card Savers a few years ago. I found them to be too flimsy, they don't lay entirely flat, and they put slightly more pressure on the corners than the rest of the card. So, I went back to the storage method I've used since the '80s:

Unless they're in a binder, each card gets a penny sleeve. If the card is worth more than a few dollars, it then goes into a toploader.