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BCW 9-pocket pages

Has anyone tried these newer BCW pages? I am about to begin a new set and saw these on eBay. I have always used UltraPro, but these claim to be stronger and have a “cleaner” look.

https://ebay.us/m/ug6I4G

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Originally Posted by Vintagevault13 (Post 2537808)

I'd head over to Amazon and buy a couple first to try them out. Many time they sell sheets and not the entire box.

Best way to find out if they will work for you.

Just stay far away from the Ultra-Pro 'Secure' sheets. Those things are dangerous to cards. Their little fold over flap was/is a foolish design idea.

Butch

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Originally Posted by butchie_t (Post 2537864)

Good idea. Thanks Butch

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Originally Posted by butchie_t (Post 2537864)

Just stay far away from the Ultra-Pro 'Secure' sheets. Those things are dangerous to cards. Their little fold over flap was/is a foolish design idea.

Butch

I had to go look up what the "Secure" pages were.

In your opinion, what is it about them that makes dangerous?

Thanks, in advance.

My two cents on “secure” pages:

The flap meant to protect the card sometimes causes damage when placing the card in the page. Of course, being very careful helps one avoid this.

n theory, the pages are good. In practice, they’re annoying at best.

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Originally Posted by timzcardz (Post 2538871)

I had to go look up what the "Secure" pages were.

In your opinion, what is it about them that makes dangerous?

Thanks, in advance.

The flap covering all 9 cards. A single flap covers the three card holder line.
It gets in the way (scratches) the cards going in, and coming out. Then you have to deal with folding the single flap over the three cards in each row.

Take a page out, the pages fold over and end up pulling the flap off of all the cards in a page. So you are putting them all back over each card most every time you pull a sheet to inspect a card.

And they are lighter/thinner. The non-secure sheets are 14 grams and the secure ones are 10 grams. Yep, I weighed them. They even feel more flimsy to me also.

It is annoying enough for me to be replacing one of my sets, thankfully the only set I used them on to the non-secure version of the sheets. I am changing out a number of my sets from sheet holders I purchased in the 90's that I am not all that confident are archival safe. This is what lead me to finding the yucky ones. I bought them not realizing that they were different. Now, I am more careful as to which ones I pick up.

Cheers,

Butch