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Wasting yet another post. Yippie. Knew I never should of owned a comic, card, and game store.
Most "sets" are just the regular line up of cards. They would include any rare card, if by definition rare happens to mean a certain players rookie card ect.
As stated though they however do not include any insert sets. Those are purchased separately. Some sets of cards have more than one type of insert set. You may have a hologram set, a all stars set, a foil set, and on top of that speciality cards from certain locations only. I.E. Walmart insert, Target insert, comic con insert, and so forth.
Yes you can buy entire sets, insert sets, complete sets, and so forth. You can turn to your local card shops if you desire and really wished to be scalped (remember I did this) same goes for team sets. Or you can buy them online via places like ebay and other card forums (check out topps shop for example on some very special stuff).
Be super careful in regards to grading though. Best you can typically hope for is NM or near mint at best. Mint is a near illusion in the card world. Avoid any place that uses such words as mint, limited, hard to find, ect. Real buyers and sellers know what is what already and those people are just out to gather the rubes. Be extra super careful if you think about buying unopened boxes or packs, specially so if they happen to be wax packs.
Lastly it is often a great deal cheaper to buy a 95% completed set and seek out the missing 5-10 cards than it is to buy a completed set. Often the price difference is staggering to say the least, even on not so valuable cards.
Oh another last note. Watch a few auctions first to really gauge the pricing of certain items. Do not feel if you only see one right now that you must buy it. Unless it happens to be a unique item or very very hard to find, more will pop up and often. I have seen sets and cards go on swings of a twenty to sixty percent price differences on the same things just at different times.
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