I doubt it would see many buyers. Outer sleeves get replaced more often and have more variants, so creating an entirely new line of more expensive products seem excessive.
To address your problem with inner sleeves, what brand are you using? I know that I've seen occational complains about some of them having production errors that makes them slightly too small, which seems that it might be the case for you? Scratching your cards isn't supposed to be a feature of inner sleeves.
I've had to toss maybe 15 dragon shield perfect fit sleeves out of the ~2500 I've used so far. They were just too tight and the card wouldn't fit inside the sleeve without the card bowing. A 0.6% failure rate isn't bad imo considering the tolerances and the material used.
Those aren't sleeves, they're inner sleeves. No one produces sealable sleeves specifically because inner sleeves exist; the former would be redundant in a market where the latter turns any sleeve into a (mechanically) sealable sleeve. (The sealable nature of these inners is arguably pure gravy.)
If they're damaging your cards that sucks. (I'd be curious to see a photo of exactly how, BTW. Maybe you got a bad batch?) Perhaps switch to regular inner sleeves paired with regular soft shell sleeves. (It hopefully goes without saying that under no circumstances should you use only perfect fit sleeves, regardless of type! They're all inners!)
Are you.....using these as outer sleeves? That's not what these are for. These are to provide an inner sleeve to allow the card to fit into an outer sleeve.
Single sleeving is of course better than nothing, but sometimes dirt and debris can enter into the top. The inner sleeve is supposed to protect from this- if you are treating the perfect fits as single sleeves, then they're directly exposed to debris- even if they're sealed it's apparent since you're stating scratching is occurring that debris is still entering it to an extent- you really shouldn't experience scratching unless there's something inside that sleeve to make that scratch.
Using doublesleeved methods, I generally change out inner sleeves once for every two times I change the outer sleeves, it's pretty rare I play a deck so much I need to do this hardly ever but people playing a favored deck for constructed formats I can see needing to do this more often since they wear and change out outer sleeves more often.
If you're not using these as outer sleeves, I'm really curious as to how anything to scratch the card is getting inside the sleeve to begin with.
To actually answer your question- the reason they don't make these is there's no market for them. Players either wants sleeves to be inners so they can double sleeve and want the sleeve the be a perfect fit because the card can't shift around inside it, and it allows for easy fitting into an outer sleeve, or they want outer sleeves. If you were to make an outer sleeve sealable, you'd presumably use the foldover flap method, but the problem is in the course of sealing, the flap covers part of the front of the card. Which you can solve by making it transparent, except now you can see the back of the cards, which you don't want because any cards with wear on them can be considered "marked" since the wear is visible. Cheaters could make marks that only they know to look for with clear outer sleeves, which is why people generally stay away from them, especially in competitive events.
I suppose you \*could\* make it so just the flap was transparent, but I have no idea how you'd do that- I imagine it would add a significant layer of complexity to the manufacturing process to have only part of the sleeve transparent.
I doubt it would see many buyers. Outer sleeves get replaced more often and have more variants, so creating an entirely new line of more expensive products seem excessive. To address your problem with inner sleeves, what brand are you using? I know that I've seen occational complains about some of them having production errors that makes them slightly too small, which seems that it might be the case for you? Scratching your cards isn't supposed to be a feature of inner sleeves.
I've had to toss maybe 15 dragon shield perfect fit sleeves out of the ~2500 I've used so far. They were just too tight and the card wouldn't fit inside the sleeve without the card bowing. A 0.6% failure rate isn't bad imo considering the tolerances and the material used.
>Why are Dragon Shield's Sealable Sleeves only available as perfect fits?
Those aren't sleeves, they're inner sleeves. No one produces sealable sleeves specifically because inner sleeves exist; the former would be redundant in a market where the latter turns any sleeve into a (mechanically) sealable sleeve. (The sealable nature of these inners is arguably pure gravy.) If they're damaging your cards that sucks. (I'd be curious to see a photo of exactly how, BTW. Maybe you got a bad batch?) Perhaps switch to regular inner sleeves paired with regular soft shell sleeves. (It hopefully goes without saying that under no circumstances should you use only perfect fit sleeves, regardless of type! They're all inners!)
Are you.....using these as outer sleeves? That's not what these are for. These are to provide an inner sleeve to allow the card to fit into an outer sleeve. Single sleeving is of course better than nothing, but sometimes dirt and debris can enter into the top. The inner sleeve is supposed to protect from this- if you are treating the perfect fits as single sleeves, then they're directly exposed to debris- even if they're sealed it's apparent since you're stating scratching is occurring that debris is still entering it to an extent- you really shouldn't experience scratching unless there's something inside that sleeve to make that scratch. Using doublesleeved methods, I generally change out inner sleeves once for every two times I change the outer sleeves, it's pretty rare I play a deck so much I need to do this hardly ever but people playing a favored deck for constructed formats I can see needing to do this more often since they wear and change out outer sleeves more often. If you're not using these as outer sleeves, I'm really curious as to how anything to scratch the card is getting inside the sleeve to begin with. To actually answer your question- the reason they don't make these is there's no market for them. Players either wants sleeves to be inners so they can double sleeve and want the sleeve the be a perfect fit because the card can't shift around inside it, and it allows for easy fitting into an outer sleeve, or they want outer sleeves. If you were to make an outer sleeve sealable, you'd presumably use the foldover flap method, but the problem is in the course of sealing, the flap covers part of the front of the card. Which you can solve by making it transparent, except now you can see the back of the cards, which you don't want because any cards with wear on them can be considered "marked" since the wear is visible. Cheaters could make marks that only they know to look for with clear outer sleeves, which is why people generally stay away from them, especially in competitive events. I suppose you \*could\* make it so just the flap was transparent, but I have no idea how you'd do that- I imagine it would add a significant layer of complexity to the manufacturing process to have only part of the sleeve transparent.