GOFU Variant Cards

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[sweinar2005]

An error card is something that wasn't suppose to be on the card, or has nothing to do with that particular card....like swatches or printing for that matter

Well we all know the person who purchased it - why don't you ask her?

I was looking for variants at the time and was emailing Richard (cardvault) about specific variants and I brought up the Igor costume card that had the blue swatch. I had only seen one on ebay scousse691, was the seller. I questioned the legitimacy of the card because there is no visible blue in the costume. He then stated that he had one as well. I then emailed Tom Breyer and asked him if he knew anything about blue being in the costume or if he knew of any errors in production. Tom then contacted artbox and artbox said it had to be an error in production.

After several emails back and forth between myself, Richard and Tom; I guess Richard decided to listed the card as BIN on ebay, possibly to see if I or someone else would pay that much for it. I bought it out of curiosity. It was of course the dark blue material from the beauxbatons uniform. In light of what I have paid for some of my "variants" - it wasn't that bad of a deal. I believe the one scouse sold went for around 210 USD.

Think its interesting that there is a beauxbatons card with the Igor material. Wouldn't be interested in selling it would you?

I consider my card an error, not a variant. I bought it specifically because it was an error and there were not many of them; only 2 that I know of. I agree its not required for the set to be a master set.

[Roz]

He hee - hey Edith - if you don't ask, you don't get so it was always worth asking TerryW but I don't think you'll be lucky this time.

I think that TerryW's demonstrates that somewhere the Karkaroff and Beaubatons costumes got mixed up, and I think you are both very lucky to own them

[sweinar2005]

Well I did make a PM offer. Which she did turn down.  :'( I don't blame her I wouldn't sell it either. Although I have found someone who has an Igor card that has the light blue beauxbatons material.  Just bought it.  and not nearly for what I paid for the one I already have or what I offered TW.

[terryweasley]

I have to ask how and where do you dind these people who have such unusual cards.

[beatles99]

Oh you can ask Terry but you won't get an answer.....that's up to the individual to tell you the contacts they have built up over the years now

[kbmum]

I have to ask how and where do you dind these people who have such unusual cards.

A lot of variants end up on eBay.  There are also dealers who have websites.  It takes some patience and perseverance to find them, but the effort is worth it in the long run.

[sweinar2005]

The Igor light blue error card I found on a card web site called toywiz.com the same seller I got the Sorcerer's Stone wizard candy card of the Exploding BON BON with the face of the the little man in it.  Most of the variants I get are by ebay but now and then after literally hours of searching google for web sites outside of ebay; I have come across the rare good variant. I got my book of monsters variant with small portion of the title from a guy called emainstreetscards or something like it. there is definitely emainstreet in the name of the site. I got a really good variant of the COS C10 Hermione costume (scarf with white pink and blue) for an extremely low price off another small site.