How To Ship Trading and Gaming Cards

Welcome!  In this guide we will try and help all the sellers on eBay that ship trading or gaming cards.  If you find this helpful, please help us to improve our score by clicking helpful at the bottom of this guide.  I would like to teach all on the best ways to secure the card and preventing the card from moving around and getting damage while in transit.  This will make a buyer very happy and improve sellers of the industry with their image.

I have purchased hundreds of cards on eBay and I am very surprised that many sellers do not know how to protect the cards they sell.  The basic protection are plastic sleeves or "penny sleeves".  These are really low in cost and assist in preventing the card from sliding around and getting scratches.  Sleeves slide over the card an offer the smallest level of protection.   The nice thing about sleeves is that the work well with top loaders and card savers.  Sleeves slide around the card and you slide the card and sleeve into a top loader. 

Top Loaders are rigid plastic single card holders that assist in preventing creases, dinged corners, and frayed edges.  Top loaders are very popular and cost only a couple of cents each.  Top Loaders are great as they fit in most collecting boxes and allow you to handle the card without damaging it.  However, the opening at the top of the top loader does allow the card to slide out at times.  This is what happens when sellers ship the cards and do not protect the card and cover this opening.

Whether it cost you $1.00 or $100.00 for the card that you purchased, many seller place it in a sleeve and then a top loader and then in to the envelope.  If the seller does not do this, then they place a piece of tape over the opening of the top loader which then transfers the stickiness to the edge of your prized card.  Team Bags are the solution to this problem.  Team Bags allow sellers to ship the card in a resealable plastic bag which protects the card from sliding out and prevents water damage from rain on the envelope.  These team bags are big enough to hold up to 3 cards in top loaders to be shipping in one team bag and still seal the cards from sliding out.  Team bags cost a few cents and give the seller and buyer security in minimizing the possible damage that can be caused in shipping through the Unites States Postal Service.

Card Savers are another means of shipping cards through the mail.  Card Savers range in size like top loaders, but these are semi-rigid card protectors, which means these are thinner plastic and can be bent if additional protection is not used.  The 2 popular sizes are Card Saver 1 and Card Saver 2.  Card Saver 1's are wider and allow collectors to place cards in and out easier to assist in preventing damage to the card.  PSA recommends collectors to use Card Saver 1's when submitting cards for grading.  Card Saver 2's are the same width as top loaders and work great in collecting boxes.  When using Card Savers for shipping, I recommend using these when you have sold several cards to the same buyer.  Then place cardboard on both sides of them and place the Card Savers and the cardboard inside a Graded Card Bag.  Graded Card Bags  are made for graded cards that come back from PSA, BGS, BVG, KSA, and all others.  These are great for shipping cards in Card Savers as they prevent the cards from moving around and allows the cardboard to stay in place to assist in protecting your cards.

In conclusion, by placing trading or gaming cards in a sleeve, then a top loader and then in a team bag, shipping cards through the mail will add protection and security in knowing that your buyer will get the card in the same shape that you sent it.

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