Gulag Joe | 591 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Interesting points from Reserved Investments. I agree, every other graded collecting market has population reports readily available. 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,811 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 I think everyone wants it. In the meantime we'll just have to go with our gut and not pay 7 grand for Winter Games on NES. 1 4 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-133891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,294 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 4 hours ago, DefaultGen said: I think everyone wants it. In the meantime we'll just have to go with our gut and not pay 7 grand for Winter Games on NES. ... I actually agree with the dude on this episode. He's making sense....I feel myself turning. Save me Chase! We need more videos. 1 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-133971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,811 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 12 minutes ago, ThePhleo said: ... I actually agree with the dude on this episode. He's making sense....I feel myself turning. Save me Chase! We need more videos. Reserved Investments is my spirit animal. Let me show you my Morgan Silver Dollars. 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-133975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,294 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 1 hour ago, DefaultGen said: Reserved Investments is my spirit animal. Let me show you my Morgan Silver Dollars. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-133996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 4,270 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Why would they rush to do population reports when they have people submitting the most worthless CIB & Sealed games? And aren't some Wata people working at HA? So they get even more money when the worthless games sell for $7k. They'll drag their feet all the way. 3 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnak25 | 6 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 I actually emailed Wata the other day to ask about population reports, and was given this not so helpful response:Population reports are not available yet but will be when Wata has them ready. If you would like updates on when they become available, I would utilize the newsletter: https://www.watagames.com/learn/newsletter I then asked if they didn't have the reports available online yet, can they provide me the information on specific games, and was given this not so helpful response:As a start-up, Wata is still trying to accrue a certain number of each game in our database before presenting it to customers as ideal for reference. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience of not being able to give you that information at this time. Where's the transparency? Just provide the numbers, it's not that hard. Does VGA have population reports? Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xDEAFC0DE | 1,277 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 It may not be iconic, but Winter Games for NES is a fun game (and I'll see myself out so you guys can talk about population reports) Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulag Joe | 591 Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 This is what they told me,in regards to the pop report: "We have future plans to release it as a merchandisable guide book." Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 4,270 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 18 minutes ago, Gulag Joe said: This is what they told me,in regards to the pop report: "We have future plans to release it as a merchandisable guide book." “You too can become a video game investment guru with our population guide book that is fully biased towards making us even more $$$! All for the low price of $99.99!” These fiends make me sick. 2 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut | 9,223 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 34 minutes ago, Gulag Joe said: This is what they told me,in regards to the pop report: "We have future plans to release it as a merchandisable guide book." Classic WATA! Keep that gravy train rolling boys! Yum yum yum! 3 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 4,270 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, OptOut said: Classic WATA! Keep that gravy train rolling boys! Yum yum yum! I think we need some more of your artwork in here. 1 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut | 9,223 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, Shmup said: I think we need some more of your artwork in here. I'll see what I can do, lol! 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOURTURN | 1,258 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 (edited) The only reason why I will dispute the need for a population report is that it would become inaccurate over time. But even then I do like looking up these things regardless if it is accurate or not. On 11/9/2020 at 9:58 PM, jnak25 said: Does VGA have population reports? I want to say yes, but my edit says otherwise. Not only does it appear that they dropped it on VGA, but they also have dropped a portion of their population report on AFA as well! Ugh. Edited November 14, 2020 by FenrirZero Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-134928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,294 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 On 11/10/2020 at 6:24 AM, Gulag Joe said: This is what they told me,in regards to the pop report: "We have future plans to release it as a merchandisable guide book." Data was meant to be free! 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-135121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 4,184 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 2 hours ago, ThePhleo said: Data was meant to be free! ? 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-135178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mijael | 347 Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 I bet that when the population report goes live we will see a lot of those sealed "rare" Marios and Zeldas 1 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-135670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciobar1980 | 20 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 “When WATA has them ready”. What’s to get ready? They should have been counting them on a spreadsheet since the first submission. Haha. Honestly though I’ve been saying the same thing about VGA not having pop reports for years. Comics and card TPGs seemed to figure out this counting thing a long time ago. 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-144195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coops_Collection | 18 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Luciobar1980 said: “When WATA has them ready”. What’s to get ready? Once they've milked the speculative market for all its worth through Heritage Auctions I can't imagine buying PSA graded cards without pop reports Edited December 9, 2020 by Coops_Collection 3 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-144234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulag Joe | 591 Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Coops_Collection said: Once they've milked the speculative market for all its worth through Heritage Auctions I can't imagine buying PSA graded cards without pop reports Those pop reports made many cards from the junk wax era actually have some value Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-144265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,126 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 12 hours ago, Luciobar1980 said: “When WATA has them ready”. What’s to get ready? They should have been counting them on a spreadsheet since the first submission. Haha. Honestly though I’ve been saying the same thing about VGA not having pop reports for years. Comics and card TPGs seemed to figure out this counting thing a long time ago. As far as I know, they have them for internal use. Anytime I've asked about a specific game, they have been able to give me the info. Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-144311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
undamned | 6 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 I think the most generous explanation for why they haven't released pop reports is that their "matrix" QR code app/system isn't ready and they don't want to publish pops before then. Alternatively, they are just being scummy and letting Heritage reap the benefits of people dropping wild money for items that may actually have high pops. -ud Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-206143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
inasuma | 1,228 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) sev On 11/9/2020 at 9:58 PM, jnak25 said: I actually emailed Wata the other day to ask about population reports, and was given this not so helpful response:Population reports are not available yet but will be when Wata has them ready. If you would like updates on when they become available, I would utilize the newsletter: https://www.watagames.com/learn/newsletter I then asked if they didn't have the reports available online yet, can they provide me the information on specific games, and was given this not so helpful response:As a start-up, Wata is still trying to accrue a certain number of each game in our database before presenting it to customers as ideal for reference. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience of not being able to give you that information at this time. Where's the transparency? Just provide the numbers, it's not that hard. Does VGA have population reports? They give kind of a disingenuous response if we're being honest. They have the data, they have the database, they have a website. I'm a software engineer by trade. Give me 2 weeks to learn their system and I'll implement it for them. There's really no excuse here. Before it was a matter of low pop being used to manipulate the market. But it's three years later and hundreds of thousands of games presumably graded. Their matrix tech is cool but a mobile app shouldn't stop them from publishing a simple, searchable table UI No. Excuse. EDIT: Bonus: their whole site is written in React with an api-based backend. I could build this in my sleep. lol Edited June 29, 2021 by inasuma 1 Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-206150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 5,344 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 21 hours ago, inasuma said: EDIT: Bonus: their whole site is written in React with an api-based backend. I could build this in my sleep. lol [REDACTED] Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-206151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
inasuma | 1,228 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 [REDACTED] Link to comment https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/5762-wata-population-report-census/#findComment-206154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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