Join the 2024 BCW Supplies College Bracket!

You need to create a CBSSports.com account in order to participate. Go here to enter our Bracket Games group.

After the brackets are posted, make your game predictions before the tourney starts, and enjoy the games. After the tournament, the four participants with the most points will win the prizes listed below.

Stephon Castle card and signed basketball in BCW basketball showcase
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RT To Win a Disney Lorcana Prize Pack

Congrats to @SadRobotAlters for winning this prize pack!

Twitter users – follow @bcwsupplies and retweet (RT) the respective Thursday, September 28th tweet for a chance to win a BCW 1600 Collectible Card Bin, one pack of Card Bin Partitions, one pack of Tall Card Dividers, a set of 3 Disney Lorcana starter decks, and 8 Disney Lorcana booster packs. Follow and retweet by the morning (EST) of Monday, October 2nd, 2023.

Lorcana packs, decks, card bin partitions, tall card dividers, and a 1600 card bin
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Using BCW Pages For Your Important Photos

Even in the age of digital cameras, physical photos are an important keepsake. From an autographed 8 by 10 to an heirloom photo of a relative, keeping them safe and protected is vital. However, most of the time, simply putting them in a box isn’t ideal, as many people enjoy looking through their pictures. Overall, the most common storage method is to use a photo album, which keeps the photographs protected, organized, and displayed. As a result, BCW offers several options on create your own photo album, able to hold many sizes of photographs.

Packages of various photo binder pages with 3-ring binder
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How To Collect And Store Vintage Postcards

Postcard collecting is a popular hobby with a history that reaches back to the late 1800s. The first postcards entered the market in the late Victorian era as rewards for schoolchildren or promotional materials. The Smithsonian Institute published a short article on this history of postcards, which you can read on their website. Due to the wide range of styles and subjects, collectors tend to focus on one or two types, such as mailed postcards from the Edwardian era.

Spread of postcards in topload holders
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Zines Past and Present

A zine (short for magazine), is typically a small-circulation, self-published piece of original or borrowed texts and images. While zines are often reproduced on a copy machine today, they have a history that predates photocopy machines.

Zines in 6x9 Photo Sleeves
Zines protected in 6×9 Photo Sleeves

Elysia, the owner of Irvington Vinyl & Books, discusses the history of zines, and their current significance in the Indianapolis community.

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Wholesale Orders Should be Delivered to a Commercial Address

BCW offers wholesale accounts to resellers of BCW products such as hobby shops and online retailers. Customers that wish to resell BCW products and have a business license from their state or federal government can apply for a BCW wholesale account. Once approved for a wholesale account, businesses can order BCW products at reduced pricing, and our wholesale Free Shipping policy* applies (*you must sign-in to your wholesale account to view the wholesale Free Shipping details).

In order for wholesale accounts to achieve Free Shipping, the order must meet a few requirements. First, the value of the order must reach our Free Shipping threshold. For some products the threshold is $1,000, but the threshold is only $500 for the products designated with a Green Key. Once the Free Shipping threshold is reached, everything on that order will ship for free. A second requirement for wholesale Free Shipping is the shipping address must be a singular commercial address in the 48 contiguous United States or Washington DC. If you select to ship to a residential address, you can pay for the delivery, or you can use our Free Shipping Program but a Residential Delivery Surcharge will apply. The Residential Delivery Surcharge is $50 for small orders, and $100 for large orders.

There are several options to avoid this Residential Delivery Surcharge if you originally planned to ship to a home address.

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How to Identify and Message Your Amazon Seller

If you’re experiencing issues with a purchase made on Amazon, it’s important to know that while BCW sells products there, your item might have been bought from a third-party seller. For any manufacturing-related problems with a BCW product, we’re here to help. However, for other issues, you should contact the seller directly.
 
Finding and messaging the seller on Amazon can be confusing. We’ve prepared a video guide to simplify this process for you. It will show you how to identify the seller and how to contact them.
 
We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced with your Amazon purchase and hope that the seller will resolve your issue promptly.

Media Storage Boxes are Great for Movies, TV Shows – and Video Games, Too!

By Sal Barry

Storing physical media can be a constant challenge for collectors. Video games, DVDs and/or Blu-ray Discs add up over time and take up a lot of space. I understand why many have sold off their DVD or video game collections, since much of this can be streamed or downloaded via the internet. But there are good reasons for keeping your physical media, and that’s where BCW’s Media Storage Boxes can help you stay organized while keeping your collection pristine.

BCW Media box with VHS, Blu-ray, and DVDs
DVDs, Blu-ray, and VHS tapes stored in a Media Box
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Protecting Restaurant Menus with Toploading Holders

For a restaurant, visual appeal is important, making a great-looking menu one of the elements to success. After the food has been selected, and a beautiful menu has been designed, it’s important for restaurants to keep their menus looking new and clean. Toploading Print Holders, or simply toploaders, may be the perfect choice for your restaurant, diner, or bar. Toploaders work great if your menu is a single sheet of paper (two-sided), but toploaders are not the solution for you if your menu has multiple pages that fold.

Drink menu with BCW toploaders

Toploaders are semi-rigid holders that are essentially two layers of clear PVC plastic. The sides and bottom are sealed with plastic ribs, while the top is open, allowing you to slide the menu into the holder. This PVC material is super simple for staff to quickly wipe clean, just try to prevent liquids from getting into the top of the holder. This material is durable and unlikely to break if dropped.

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