OT: Top Loaders Shortage

[vintagetoppsguy]

In 3 weeks, I'm setting up at my first major show (I've set up at smaller shows in the past). I have hundreds of cards (maybe even 1000 or more) that I wanted to put into CardSaver2's and put in my dollar boxes. With the shortage and high the cost (that's if I can find them), I can't do that. I can still purchase 100 CS2 for $20 - at least that was the price at my LCS a couple of weeks ago - the price may have gone up (or they may be sold out). But even at that price, that's $.20 a card. I can't make any money on my dollar boxes if it costs me $.20 just for the plastic. So, I've put everything that I would normally put in CS2 into penny sleeves and just doing it that way. If a customer buys a small stack of cards from my dollar boxes, I'll just put them all in a team bag and add some kind of stiffener if needed (maybe junk commons) so the cards are protected. I still have some CS1 and CS2, but I'm saving those for the cards that will go into my display case.