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Old 11-30-2023, 10:06 AM   #1
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Also a side note on this set and COMC.

When you are buying base from FUA, look closely at the scans and make sure it's really the silver base and not the green foil parallel. It's hard to tell since the stripes for both are kinda dark.

I did my usual set-purchase with this set on COMC, bought the 90 base individually, and had them shipped to me. When I just got them in hand recently, lo and behold 4 of the 90 were green foil parallels and not true base (to my annoyance, since my OCD is not gonna let this set have 4 greens mixed in with the base). The little white slip on the back of the card says just "base", and I went back to my purchases on COMC and indeed they were listed as regular base, but the scans if you look real closely are the greens. So this will involve an extra purchase and shipment to just get this dang base set finished.
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Also a side note on this set and COMC.

When you are buying base from FUA, look closely at the scans and make sure it's really the silver base and not the green foil parallel. It's hard to tell since the stripes for both are kinda dark.

I did my usual set-purchase with this set on COMC, bought the 90 base individually, and had them shipped to me. When I just got them in hand recently, lo and behold 4 of the 90 were green foil parallels and not true base (to my annoyance, since my OCD is not gonna let this set have 4 greens mixed in with the base). The little white slip on the back of the card says just "base", and I went back to my purchases on COMC and indeed they were listed as regular base, but the scans if you look real closely are the greens. So this will involve an extra purchase and shipment to just get this dang base set finished.

this reminded me of shipping home FUSM PMGs and getting the rainbow parallel instead
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Old 11-30-2023, 10:42 AM   #3
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this reminded me of shipping home FUSM PMGs and getting the rainbow parallel instead
That sounds pretty egregious on COMC's part, shouldnt be crap shoot when getting the physical cards in hand, but it is sometimes apparently. This one is kinda on me since the scans *are* there of the greens listed as base, but since foil scans darker, you have to really look, and when Im doing a base set purchase on COMC, Im just going into each bucket, quickly selecting the cheapest option, and moving to the next (very tedious btw COMC! wish there was an easier method here).

But the FUA base on COMC are actual card scans, not stock images, since there wasnt base on epack it's all digital. Sometimes you get into situations where it's a stock image and the wrong card comes to you (be it a parallel or whatever)...that would be entirely COMC's fault since you have no card image to go off of.

I did rebuy the 4 FUA base I needed.
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