citanul
04-06-2009, 04:17 AM
I've always used regular binders ( http://content.etilize.com/Large/1010067816.jpg ) with 3x3 sleeves you can buy seperate for keeping my tradeable cards. It used to fit in one big binder and was oke to carry in a backpack along with my deck(s). But after buying a collection from someone who auit playing I had to increase the amount of binders from 1 to 3 for a total of about 900 cards. The backpack became to large and it became a strain on the body to carry it around.
During another tournament my mate had to leave early and asked me if I could carry his gear home and he'd pick it up afterwards. He uses a shoulder bag and while carrying this I noticed it was qute comfortable. Upon arriving home I checked if I could fit my stuff in this type of bag but the binders where to large. It could hold those premade 3x3 binders with 10 sleeves in it so it can hold 180 cards per binder.
So I bought myself those type of binders last saturday and am ready to reorganise my trade. But how do I organise my trade?
SO my questions for you guys are the following:
- Do you think that a shoulder bag is superiour to a backpack?
- How do you organise your trade?
I'll elaborate a bit on the last one. There are several ways to organise them. Most people just do this by colour but there seem to be other ways as well.
The types I've seen :
- Colour: Sometimes combined with other sorting methods.
- Legality in type2: Everything legal in Standard seperated.
- Value: High values in a different map, then middle values then lower.
- Price tags: Combined with 'Value', shows a price wanted for the card as well.
- Alphabetized: Sorted by name.
- Sets: Different sets seperated.
- Rarity: Rares seperated from (un)commons.
- Other:...
What I was thinking of was just sorting them by colour and rarity. I'd keep the (un)commons in a seperate binder because not everyone wants them and will just skip those pages anyway or sometimes someone wants a good (un)common added for their card.
So what is your opinion on this?
During another tournament my mate had to leave early and asked me if I could carry his gear home and he'd pick it up afterwards. He uses a shoulder bag and while carrying this I noticed it was qute comfortable. Upon arriving home I checked if I could fit my stuff in this type of bag but the binders where to large. It could hold those premade 3x3 binders with 10 sleeves in it so it can hold 180 cards per binder.
So I bought myself those type of binders last saturday and am ready to reorganise my trade. But how do I organise my trade?
SO my questions for you guys are the following:
- Do you think that a shoulder bag is superiour to a backpack?
- How do you organise your trade?
I'll elaborate a bit on the last one. There are several ways to organise them. Most people just do this by colour but there seem to be other ways as well.
The types I've seen :
- Colour: Sometimes combined with other sorting methods.
- Legality in type2: Everything legal in Standard seperated.
- Value: High values in a different map, then middle values then lower.
- Price tags: Combined with 'Value', shows a price wanted for the card as well.
- Alphabetized: Sorted by name.
- Sets: Different sets seperated.
- Rarity: Rares seperated from (un)commons.
- Other:...
What I was thinking of was just sorting them by colour and rarity. I'd keep the (un)commons in a seperate binder because not everyone wants them and will just skip those pages anyway or sometimes someone wants a good (un)common added for their card.
So what is your opinion on this?