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    Sorting/shuffling machine for trading cards (sports, Magic, Pokemon, etc.)

    Very cool, thanks for the responses! Zdas04, I do like what Kenat suggested. Having multiple feeders (10) putting one card in a bin that will go down the line to be wrapped in packaging would be great. I imagine there are many used feeders that can be converted to do this. MintJulep, sounds...
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    Sorting/shuffling machine for trading cards (sports, Magic, Pokemon, etc.)

    @zdas04...What you're describing is WAY beyond what I'm trying to do, although it would be cool :) 1gibson actually hit it on the head that I was overthinking this...having 10 piles would be sufficient for this problem. Now, if there is a feasible way to sort them by team, that would be great...
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    Sorting/shuffling machine for trading cards (sports, Magic, Pokemon, etc.)

    Definitely could be reinventing the wheel...had that epiphany after thinking about it for the last couple of days :) Any idea where to find a machine or what something like that would be called? This is all new to me so all I can think of is Alibaba.
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    Sorting/shuffling machine for trading cards (sports, Magic, Pokemon, etc.)

    Yes, because their sale price increases significantly in this scenario. You're also assuming there's only one machine... Do you have a solution to offer?
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    Sorting/shuffling machine for trading cards (sports, Magic, Pokemon, etc.)

    I work with a company that buys and sells millions of trading cards every year but the majority of these are sold for fractions of a penny if they're sold at all. From what I can see there are two options for this company to get more out of these cards, both of which are incredibly...

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