2013 Panini Rookies & Stars Football Forum

I have been inputting my Giovani Bernard PC and have gotten to the 2013 Panini Rookies & Stars set.  I am totally confused!  Since I was not back into collecting fully at that time I purchased all  the cards I have on the secondary market and didn't realize all the variations and where they come from.  Going through the database I've become more confused as unfortunately there appears to be duplicate listings or incorrectly linked sets present, and I'm sure I've made the admins mad with my submission of IRs to try and make sense of it all.  I've searched the web for an explanation of the product - base cards vs longevity vs longevity parallel - but nowhere can I find a clear description of the product.  What constitutes the base set? Are the Longevity cards (the ones that have Longevity printed in small letters) another base set or insert?  Are the cards with Longevity printed multiple times on the card a base set or insert?  Help!

Jeff

There are two sets, "Rookies and Stars" and "Rookies and Stars Longevity." One was probably hobby and the other retail; I don't remember. But the Longevity set has a kind of chrome finish while the non-Longevity set is regular cardstock. The cards with the tiny "Longevity" printed all over the background are a parallel set of the non-Longevity set. And of course, the parallel Longevitys have parallels of varying colors and serial numbers.

Clear as mud? I've never understood why there was a base set called Longevity while another base set had a parallel called Longevity, but that is what is going on there.

Part of the problem was the Rookie Materials subsets were listed in parallels and duplicate insert sets.

That is why those Materials Longevity (insert) sets are being removed.

This is one of the many reasons, the more I am getting back into collecting, the less I like panini...

Great thank you sundevik for taking this on and thanks to everyone else that's trying to clear this up. The"Rookie Materials" sets are designated at Cardboard Connection as a stand alone set, while other sites have them as part of the regular set. I also noticed the inserts for Cross training, Dress For Success and Freshman Orientation are labeled on card as Longevity for base and not for Prime. If the cards with Longevity in small print is a separate set then these need to be corrected. 

Think of it as a great puzzle....to be solved...by U:)  Love u ask these ?s.

Fritts

Is this set still being corrected?  I don't want to submit anymore IR's if someone is still trying to delete the duplicate/incorrect sets.

Jeff