Week 3: Trade Binders

What is your favorite way to store your trades?

For most people it is probably one of three things:
- Trade book with plastic placeholders
- 3-hole punch pages with plastic placeholders (to insert inside of a binder)
- Box or rubber-band

My question for the readers of this blog: do you can see any type of innovation for holding trades?

If you had to come up with a solution that would solve the 5 major issues below what would it be?
- Volume (being able to carry a large amount of cards)
- Portability (easy for travel and not too large)
- Protection (protecting the cards)
- Visibility (making the cards easily visible & accessible)
- Price (cost to own and use)

Currently I think the current options solve these issues well, but for the purpose of the blog let's see if we can think of an improvement for each issue. I will update as people post their ideas! I encourage you to participate! Don't be afraid to push the boundaries, but make sure what you suggest is also feasible (only the cards are Magic).

Volume:

Portability:

Protection:

Visibility:

Price:

Other: This is for any other improvements or innovations that you all can think of.

I will start us off with an idea. This would go under the Other category. I think it would be cool if there was a phone application that you could enter your collection into. It could have a simple search engine and provide real-time prices via TCGplayer or something similar. This way players who want to look for specific cards could look through another player's trades more quickly. Something like this may already exist, but I didn't see anything too advanced with my quick Google search.

See you again next week!