Here is where I keep a running list of the tools & articles that I find most useful in my sports card collecting journey!

Be sure to bookmark this page and continue to check back as I find more resources to improve my collection!

10KCardJourney Guides

• Guide for Shipping Cards in 5 Minutes or Less
• Guide for Shipping Cards with USPS Ground Advantage on eBay
• Guide for Shipping Cards with eBay Standard Envelope

Products I Use When Shipping Cards

• Cardshellz Easy Guide Soft Sleeve (penny sleeves with pre-cut corners)
• Top Loader
• Team Bag
• Cardboard Coats Protector (pre-cut cardboard to fit over a top-loader)
• Fuxury Bubble Mailer (the cheapest bubble mailers I could find)
• Armalope (only when sending with eBay Standard Envelope)
• Pedoolo Thermal Printer (for printing out labels for eBay Standard Envelope)
• Helpful YouTube video on how to properly pack cards for shipping

Useful Tools

• Card Ladder Pro
  • A bit pricey ($199/year) but does a great job of tracking your collection and helping to get a value on cards
• 130Point
  • Tells you the actual sale price of cards on eBay (not just the list price)
• PSA Cert Verification
  • Do a quick scan to ensure that the PSA Certification # is legitimate and matches up with the card you see
• Gem Rate
  • Track how many cards have been graded across all grading services (and by card / player)
• Sports Card Pro
  • Keep track of your collection for free (I wish is that you could manually add cards that are not in the database, but it should be able to cover a majority of cards in your collection)

Helpful Articles

Favorite YouTubers

• Packman
  • The best pack opener on YouTube (he opens all the stuff we don’t want to spend and lose money on)
• IF Sports Cards
  • Be sure to check out his weekly Top 10 Sports Cards Pulls of the Week that comes out every Monday!
• Sports Card Investor
  • The “Greatest Card Collections” series is one of the best on YouTube to see some incredible pieces of sporting history
• TRIKE Cards+
  • A great look into the life of a card seller, both the good and the bad
• ミゾタのチャンネル
  • As someone looking to learn Japanese, a great way to combine two interests of mine with this Japanese card breaker!

Insightful & Interesting Twitter / X Follows

• Best Cards Ever
  • See some of the best cards ever produced
• The Collectibles Guru
  • Keep your pulse on the latest sports card news; although he is affiliated with Fanatics now

Do you have any tools that you find super useful in guiding your sports card journey? Feel free to comment & suggest any that I may have missed!