kell | 102 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Anyone have an idea, or done any analysis, on what the premium is for grades? For example, if a WATA 7.0 sold for $100 the same game with a WATA grade of 9.5 should sell for $200 (2x). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonebone | 1,307 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 There's no mathematical formula that would accurately predict this. Not even a rule of thumb, entirely depends on title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kell | 102 Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 That's what I was thinking. I may start collecting some data to see if there is any correlation at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,401 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 (edited) The market is way too unstable for numbers to mean much right now IMO. A 9.2 A+ Final Fantasy sold for $4300 a week before a 9.2 A Final Fantasy sold for $2300. I can't imagine there's a $2000 difference between an A and an A+. It was "The Carolina Collection", yes, but that's just further madness added to the market. Edited January 23, 2020 by DefaultGen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 23 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: The market is way too unstable for numbers to mean much right now IMO. A 9.2 A+ Final Fantasy sold for $4300 a week before a 9.2 A Final Fantasy sold for $2300. I can't imagine there's a $2000 difference between an A and an A+. It was "The Carolina Collection", yes, but that's just further madness added to the market. Whenever I see a pedigreed "collection," I can't help but chuckle. It's literally just marketing speak invented by the seller and grading/auction companies to make more money. It's kind of like generations. Somehow advertising execs got us to care so much about generations that we argue about which target demographic we belong to (obviously generations have some value for sociology studies, but I digress). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,401 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, DoctorEncore said: Whenever I see a pedigreed "collection," I can't help but chuckle. It's literally just marketing speak invented by the seller and grading/auction companies to make more money. It's kind of like generations. Somehow advertising execs got us to care so much about generations that we argue about which target demographic we belong to (obviously generations have some value for sociology studies, but I digress). That's what a Gen Xer would say 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kell | 102 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, DefaultGen said: The market is way too unstable for numbers to mean much right now IMO. A 9.2 A+ Final Fantasy sold for $4300 a week before a 9.2 A Final Fantasy sold for $2300. I can't imagine there's a $2000 difference between an A and an A+. It was "The Carolina Collection", yes, but that's just further madness added to the market. Yeah, I've seen large variance on games for years depending on a variety of factors. However, was wondering with grading becoming much more common if it would reduce some of that variability since condition is such a huge factor in the resale variance. Anyone want to start a "Collection"? Edited January 24, 2020 by kell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Startyde | 175 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 There's too many variables and not enough samples to ever have an analysis that was anything better than random. The difference between Game X selling for 20 and selling for 2000 is based on whether one person was interested in it or 2+ people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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