Reddit reviews Ultra Pro 100 Topload Card Holders with 100 Ct Bag of Sleeves

Amazon? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Y52EUU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

10 cents each seems pretty reasonable. And frankly once you start sending and receiving you'll be taking in as many toploaders as you send out, give or take a few.

Werewolf and/or Two Rooms and a Boom are great for public use. Sleeve them and then put them into top loaders after that. Amazing protection and use and also cheap!

I put the card in a flexible sleeve, and then put that sleeve in a top loader(ie, hard sleeve).

The flexible sleeve keeps it moving inside the top loader. The soft sleeves are just cheap ones that are like $3 for more than you'll ever need, and then the top loaders were like $10 for like 100. I store the cards I don't use in a binder of pocket pages(often already in the soft sleeves).

I hear good things about clear dragon shields if you're interested in only soft sleeves. I like the durability of top loaders, and for storing I like pages so I can easily organize things without having to constantly shuffle through or reorganize cards.

Here's a link to an ultra pro top loader/soft sleeve combo

Trying to pay for MtG with speculation is near impossible. It requires a significant amount of market knowledge and a good bit of luck as well. I've had better luck grinding collections and trades.

Buying Craigslist and Facebook collections at buylist prices can be incredibly profitable. It can be a successful venture with very little MtG/business knowledge. That said, it's a hell of a grind.

Take my most recent purchase:

• Vague CL listing. "4k cards, more than 800 rares, asking $600".
  
• I gave my normal spiel: I pay buylist for rares, $0.10 per bulk rare, $3 per 1k common/uncommon."
  
• Seller catalogues some of the cards and comes up to $350 buylist for everything.
  
• It's 3 days before Christmas and I'm patient. I offer $300.
  
• Initial offer rejected. Seller comes back on Christmas Eve and takes $300.
  
  Then the hard part. I sorted everything, then alphabetized the rares. Here's the list after everything was sorted. There was another $120 or so in bulk or cards I kept for my collection.
  
  Then you need to figure out how to move this product. It's $370 in buylist, I used MTGprice to get that number. I could spend $30 in shipping to make $40 for 4-6 hours of work. Not for me.
  
  I broke the numbers down further considering eBay and TCGPlayer fees for cash. I knew I wanted to move some of it on PucaTrade because I want to build UR Twin and it's easy to pick up the $5-$20 uncommons on there. Rares and staples like Scalding Tarn and Snapcaster are near impossible to pick up on Puca without bounties but the uncommons from MM and MM15 move quickly. I decided to just move the entire collection on Puca and then sell the points (whoops).
  
  I used PucaPower to optimize this procedure. It went something like:
  
  
• Export CSV from MTGPrice
  
• Import to PucaTrade
  
• Setup PucaPower to alert on bundles over $5.
  
• Accept ALL THE TRADES.
  
  I ended up with a lot of trades. It ended up being ~52000 PP over 55 packages. That's $0.49 per stamp, $0.07 per envelope and $0.10 per top loader which comes out to $0.66 in shipping per order. That's $36 in shipping and handling.
  
  I took the remainder of the collection to my LGS. He initially offered 35% TCGPlayer mid in cash or 50% in trade. I offered to throw in the binder that came with the collection and organize the binder into a new Commander product binder for him if he would give me 75% in trade. He offered 65% and I accepted. That got me a playset of NM Snapcaster Mages ($240 in retail).
  
  All that to say...
  
  Collection Cost: $300
  
  Shipping and Handling: $36
  
  Total Investment: $336, 10 hours of time
  
  to get
  
  $240 retail in Snapcasters
  
  $120 retail in random staples
  
  52,000 PP
  
  I can play the waiting game and hope the cards I need trickle in or I can sell the PP for $0.65-$0.68 per 100. That'd be ~$338, completely covering my investment. So for 10 hours of work I earned a free set of Snapcasters and grew my binder/collection by another $120 in retail. Of course I'm addicted to cardboard crack and I have 30000 PP worth of cards on my want list. I'll likely sell the remaining 20,000 PP to finance my next collection purchase.
  
  It's a long and slow grind. I basically made $30/hour doing this. I could have made ~$50/hour in overtime at work and just bought the cards but I enjoy sorting cards more than my job. I've built Atarka Red in Standard, Naya Burn in Modern (no tarns) and I'm starting on Twin using this method. I had to flip four collections to do this but I think it's worth it.
  

I used these. They are stiff plastic which doesn't matter much for the Resistance since you aren't really playing with the cards so much.