Lexx Cards, I have mine from DF

Mine arrived while I was on holiday last week (and also at a time when I have no money to pay for them). I’ve noticed quite a few minor mistakes and outright major errors, although the error density on the whole seems lower than the original preview set (thanks to micromary I guess). I’ve also got a complete 72 card base set up for grabs which I’ll probably flog on ebay (although I’ve not been looking forward to my first ebay sale I really need to money right now:)

Oh, one of the cards says that Kai is the most feared assassin in the two universes and [b]Brunnis2[/b], LOL

Kylar: I ordered mine off the net, but I’m sure some of these will end up in card shops. I see that they are on ebay already.

[ 12-08-2002: Message edited by: Enox ]

Thanx Enox! [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] I’ll be sure to take a look on EBay and such. I’ve looked up the DVDs and such–and it’s a shame that they don’t have all episodes of Season on one DVD…[i]yet[/i]. And Season two is rather expensive for my empty wallet, lol.

Enox,
Did you say that there’s 1 of Kai; or am I mistaken? Oh I do hope you found 1 with Kai; you’re lucky to have 1 of Stan & the other of Xev. Is there 1 of 790? the Lexx? or even Zev? Oh I do hope there is; you said to check ebay; I may do that before too long & I’m also going to check the Dealers’ Room while I’m at Dragon*Con to see if there’s any.
Take care & have a great Summer.

Lexxians Unite,
Jhevz [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by Micromary:
Flame, I’m also VERY ****ed at the prices I’m seeing on E-bay for the LEXX cards. I can only assume dealers get enough of a discount when they buy that after mark-up the price to us consumers ends up at about the same price as us buying direct from DF.

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No, they’re just piecing them all out. From one box you get almost 3 full sets, plus a handful of “chaser” cards. Most of the chaser cards are being sold for $20 a piece, which at the 10 or so I have in my box, 2 to 3 times the price of the box. And the sets are just gravy at $10 each or so.

I imagine most of the guys selling stuff on eBay bought cases and stripped out all the valuable cards from each.

I was going to buy a binder from my comic chop, but their binders mysteriously did not have the Xev card at the store, yet were the same price. Sorry, but I’m not paying $40 for a 3 ring binder.

Stormsweeper appears to be correct. After browsing around for a while the best deal is a box for 50 bucks with all un-opened packs. But the box topper isnt included….

Other than that all I see are sets and stripped packs.

When you see people selling Box + Wrapper that usually means it’s been stripped and he/she is just selling you the box of cards and the opened wrappers.

In which case its still best to buy from DF and pay 20-25% more especially if you want the autographs, rainbows, box toppers, chrome cards etc… which all go for much more on Ebay than DF charges

I’m not much of a collector so I’ve been reading this thread with interest — Is it common practice for dealers and stores to strip sets, remove autographed cards and so on? Are purchases from the maker limited to advance orders?

And this is just pure curiosity, but are there ways to establish provenance with signature cards or costume cards and such stuff on e bay?

elmey [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by elmey:
I’m not much of a collector so I’ve been reading this thread with interest — Is it common practice for dealers and stores to strip sets, remove autographed cards and so on? Are purchases from the maker limited to advance orders?

And this is just pure curiosity, but are there ways to establish provenance with signature cards or costume cards and such stuff on e bay?

elmey [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

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Hi, elmey.

There are 2 ways to collect trading cards. The first is to buy an unopened box from a dealer or the manufacturer (DF in this case), open all the individual packs inside, and assemble as many base sets as possible. You will normally get at least one complete base set, maybe more. You will get SOME of the cards in the extra sets (chase sets)but not all of them. They’re called “chase sets” ’cause they’re rarer than the base set and they want you to chase after them.
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The second way is to ask a dealer for a complete set of base cards and/or chase cards. The dealer does the work of going through all the boxes and opening all the packs to assemble sets. They sell chase sets separate from base sets and charge a higher price because they are rare. When I’ve been in dealers rooms at cons, I rarely see autograph cards sold in sets. They’re usually sold separatly and go for the highest price.

The Xev costume card was billed as the “ultimate chase card” because it is the rarest of all the cards in this series. There are only 199 of these cards and I was told they were going to be randomly inserted in CASES. This means, unless only 199 cases were produced, that not every case would have one of these cards in them. The dealer would have to buy many cases in order to get hold of just ONE of the costume cards, so you know they’ll want $$$$$ for it! [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

Don’t know if this helps any with provenance, but I was given a costume card, complete set of autograph cards and a bunch of sketch cards from DF as a thank-you for at least TRYING to help with the copy. The stuff I’ve seen on e-bay is the same, except my cards are not numbered. The chase cards I got in the box I ordered ARE numbered, so I think my gift stuff was an exception to the regular series.

Also, the binders I ordered were not shrink-wrapped. The Xev autograph card was in the center pocket of the first card sheet.

Micromary, thanks for the info: I see there’s a certain amount of work involved in collecting! Hmmm…if I could find someone to do it for me…. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Flamegrape: congrats on your costume card! [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]

elmey

The autograph cards are all in one set. There’s an A2 artist card as Michael McManus didn;t do an autograph card. A3 is Brian Downey, A4 is Jeff Hirschfeld. I’d have to get my cards out of the vault to see what A5 is. I believe a few people are listing it on eBay as Artist A1 for some reason.

[ 27-08-2002: Message edited by: stormsweeper ]

I e-mailed Carl at DF for a complete listing of the autograph card series and the sketch card series. He hasn’t answered me, but I’ve been watching whats showing up on e-bay and comparing it to what was sent to me by Carl as a thank-you. Here’s what I think are in the sets:

Autograph cards
A1 Xenia Seeburg
A1 Dan Parsons
A2 Tom Smith
A3 Brian Downey
A4 Jeff Hirshfield
no A5 (probably Michael’s)
A6 Matt Busch
A7 Gordon Purcell
A8 Tom Grindberg
no A9 (maybe Mark Romanowski, author of Artistic card #64???)
A10 Alex Horley
A11 Jeff Pittarelli (with an extra “L” thrown in)

Sketch Cards
Dan Parsons: only Xev, but 4 or 5 different poses
Gordon Purcell: Kai, Stan & Xev, only one pose of each
Matt Busch: Kai, Xev & 790 with 2 different poses of Kai

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Originally posted by LexxDeb:
You’ve actually seen a Gordon Purcell/hand-drawn sketch of Stan the man?? I’ll have to keep hunting on eBay…that’s definitely one I’d like to find.[/QB]

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Yes I have.

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