General Forum

This may seem like overkill, but I like to put my cards, mainly  60's ,70's and 80's cards, in penny sleeves first and then place them in the 9 pocket Ultra Pro Protectors, which of course go in a binder. Again, maybe overkill with the cost of protection for cardboard, but for my OCD, feels it is necessary. Attained that OCD, through many decades of collecting cards, dont you know. Ufd da.

Anyway, I have forgotten which  penny sleeve brand and type fits the Ultra Pro 9 pocket protectors. I beleive I was using the Pro Safe standard penny sleeves, but not sure. The Cardboard Gold standard penny sleeves that I have, do not fit, they create wrinkles in the Ultra Pro 9 pocket protectors. Been awhile since I have added to my binders. Most of my cards go in pennysleeves or pennysleeves with Top loaders, then go in 1600, 3200 or 5000 count boxes, with lids. Again, allot of cost of protection for cardboard, but I plan to keep these till my family has to deal with them.

I beleive the reason I probably went with the Pro Safe penny sleeves, is that they fit the 9 pocket, they had the same quality and standards as Ultr Pro, but were much less expensive. But I could be wrong. Been may years again, since I added cards to my binders.

Please let me know which penny sleeve brand and type will fit the 9 pocket Ultra Pro Protectors. Also if you have experience with this type of configuration, please share.

Take care

I do the same thing for all SN, SP, and RC cards. I thought i was the only one.  Just helps protect them and keeps them from sliding out.  I personally use the Ultra Pro penny sleeves.  They sell a 4 pack on amazon for pretty cheap.  I think its worth spending the extra money for quality penny sleeves.  I have also gotten them for cheaper on ebay and at Target stores.

I am pretty sure that Ultra Pro makes 2 different kinds of sleeves.  They have just their standard sleeve, and they have a premium one.  I don't have personal experience with it, but I have heard that the premium sleeves don't fit very well in the pages.  However from personal experience, I do know that the standard Ultra Pro sleeves will work just fine.

I use the premium sleeves to be sure I do not have any issues with the sleeves fitting in the pockets. They are slightly narrower than the general "penny sleeves" but they are more expensive. On average they cost about $2.50 per 100.  You do have to take extra care putting the cards in the sleeves because it is a little tighter fit.

Not sure if the material they are made from is the same or different from the other style.

I seem to have the best luck with fit using BCW sleeves in Ultra Pro pages.

Thank you all for sharing. 

just thought i would share my trick for getting cards in sleeves without nicking corners.  i use 2 advertisement cards and insert those just part way and then sandwich the card i want to put in the sleeve so i can carefully protect the corners and then just remove the advertisement cards.  You still have to be careful but saves corners big time. 

Thank you for that tip. I also have seen people cut a 45 degree piece off one corner of the penny sleeve, to allow cards to go in safer. I believe there are penny sleeves now produced bases off this method. 

Whatever sleeves you buy, if you want them to fit in the 9-card Ultra Pro sheets, you need the sleeve to hold "2 1/2 x 3 1/2" cards, not the "2 5/8 x 3 5/8"  cards -usually denoted on the packaging.  Ultra Pro makes both sleeves, packing is almost identical other than the size noted and the former states on the packing that it "fits inside toploaders".   I would give you the serial number for the product but they changed the serial numbers a thus you can find them either way.  Also, while I do beleive Ultra Pro calls the smaller ones "Premium" now (last several years) but they used to not distinguish in title.

And maybe its OCD to have cards in both penny sleeves and in sheets but I think of it more as common sense, good card collecting particularly if you are collecting lets say a particular player and move the cards around in the sheets a lot in order to keep the players cards in chronological order as you obtain more cards over time to add to the collection.