Coding

[rdwyer]

As a dealer, I want to put stickers on my items that I bought. Can someone give examples of how to code an item so you know what you paid for it, so that you only know?

[Jobu]

Never done this before, but 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, etc to 9, then just write out the price using the letters??

[riggs336]

Pick a ten letter word or phrase with no repeating letters and assign a number to each letter. Voila, you have created a code.

[x2drich2000]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but just replace numbers with the place in the alphabet. example $135 would be ACE, $225 would be BBE, $75 would be GE. To make it less obvious, just shift the alphabet, go in reverse, or have multiple letters that can represent more common numbers. Just keep it simple.

[rdwyer]

Thanks for the help. No more forgetting what I paid.

[molenick]

Dumbwaiter is a ten-letter word with no repeating letters that I once read antique dealers sometimes use for objects on display (so they, but not the customer, would know what they paid or wanted to charge based on the sticker). A quick search will find many such words.

[buymycards]

A coin collector friend of mine just reversed the numbers. If he paid 12.99, he wrote 9921 on the tag.

[packs]

Pick denominations and use colored stickers. You don't need to know if you spent $113 or $125. Just mark it as being between $100 and $150. Or if you're working with larger cards than just use colored stickers for each $100 up to $1,000.

[timzcardz]

Keep it simple.

Add or subtract 5 to each digit of the amount you paid.

If you paid $180, that becomes 635, $27 becomes72, $39 becomes 84, etc.

Simple and easy to remember.

[Leon]

Mark everything up exactly 300% and you will know what you paid.

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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Leon

Mark everything up exactly 300% and you will know what you paid.

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Also known as the Dean's Cards Code

[autograf]

There was a big antique store here in Louisville that used to charge $1 to enter the place. It was like a museum. They would hand you a little slip of paper when you entered that had the words "BRUSH CLEAN" on it with the numbers 1-9 and 0 under the letters. All their tags on everything would be something like BRH D-10. So that would be $125 minus $10 or $115. It was like doing algebra every time I went down there. Got a lot of old split finger baseball gloves and some other miscellaneous BB memorabilia there over the years. Like someone said above, pick a phrase that works with 10 letters and just memorize it.