Backstory: when MtG first came out even little mom and pop retailers could get boxes easily from Wizards of the Coast and go to trade shows and sell cards at them. Lower overhead (no shop or insurance) meant dad could undercut store retail prices on packs and still make a profit.

A big thing was also selling singles, because people hunted for specific cards. Naturally, this is the way of all of the cardboard cracks (baseball, Pokémon, etc) so what I sold to my friend as bulk rate was most of the commons and things we had thousands of.

Fun fact - we sold her and her brothers 10 boxes (all four or three column boxes) back in like Aug/sept - and they’re still sorting through everything

But the binders had most of the rates and uncommon because we never had thousands of them. They’re rare and uncommon. And he put tape across where you open the plastic to get to the cards because when doing the shows we did have a couple cards get lifted.

I’m now scanning them into an inventory that will export to an Excel for me - and include the current market price at time of export. So they’re being pulled from the binders (partially because the binders are falling apart) and organized alphabetically into boxes again.

It’s not even the long tape that goes across the three cards on rows 2 & 3. It’s the tiny piece at the top of the binder for those first two cards that just doesn’t want to unstick after 20+ years of sitting on a shelf...

It does feel good to get these scanned, organized, and already inventoried for an excel so I can send the list to the buyer for faster turn around though.

Once that’s done, I’ll need to see if any of these signed cards are with anything past just the card rate...