Lexx Cards, I have mine from DF
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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?
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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.