PROTECTION WISE ONE TOUCH OR TOP LOADER???

[chuckbartowski]

I keep most of my pc in one touches...not necessarily cuz they protect the card any better...I just like them better especially for patches and thicker cards. Eventually I want to get my pc stuff slabbed.

 

[predatorkj]

I put all my high end chromes and anything else high end in one touch magnet holders. I have NEVER had any card damaged by the holders. Of course, I place all the magnet holders in "seal king" team bags, which fit the ultra pro one touch magnets PERFECTLY. Unfortunately, they don't make the "seal king" team bags anymore, and i'm down to my last pack of 100.

The cards don't move in the one touch magnets unless you shake them REAL hard, and frankly they slide only a millimeter cause the cards fit in the recessed area quite snugly.

One other great thing about the ultra pro magnet holders is that the recessed area is pretty much standard size, ie, they are GREAT for detecting TRIMMED cards, particularly chrome ones that may be smaller than usual in size. The magnet holders fit perfectly in shoeboxes as well, so they are my number one choice for valuable permanent card storage.

Anything that I am going to eventually sell, which means i'm going to carry them from place to place, goes in top loaders. The dangerous things about top loaders are of course bent microcorners with the penny sleeves, and the card can still be bent, and actually slide out of the toploaders unless they are in team bags. Frankly, the only advantage of top loaders is that they take up less space. I find it very difficult to find spotless, unwarped and scratchless top loaders, whereas the magnet holders are virtually always pristine out of the plastic wrap.

Not to try to disprove your theory but I have several(and by several I mean several) cards that I personally pulled that are just a hair smaller than the recessed area so I wouldn't take for granted that these cases can detect a trimmed card.Besides...I have heard of older vintage cards being "pressed" and then having the excess trimmed so they still looked standard size.I would imagine a comparison could prove they were pressed but who knows.I have never seen an example.Its just something me and a shop owner were discussing one day at the shop.

Frankly all of my cards move around a bit but I am still hoping I have no trimmed cards.

I still hate the fact people trim cards.I would be far more willing to pay a nice sum if they were original and unaltered.Even if condition was bad.

 

[ChasHawk]

I put all of my nicer PC cards in 1 touches so that my desk can look like this

I've never had any damage.