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    WATA Finally Getting Sued?

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    6 hours ago, ExplodedHamster said:

    Now, one thing I will say, is at some point WATA could and probably should have changed their estimates on the lower tiers. I doubt it’s legally actionable, but it likely would have helped them from a PR perspective and curbed some of the anger. I think that’s a fair criticism for sure. 

    Yea, like I feel a lot of this could have been avoided if they had just taken the 2 minutes to update their website with realistic turnaround times.  That had to have been a conscious decision not to, for whatever reason (Likely to keep lower order going that they *knew* had no hope of being anywhere near the estimates).

    I have no idea if any of that is legally actionable, but that was the one part of this that they could have very easily controlled and communicated.

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    Top 5 biggest Video game investor FAILS of 2021!!! :D

    in Sealed & Graded Collecting

    Posted · Edited by Maertens29

    8 minutes ago, OptOut said:

    I was TOTALLY ready to unsubscribe if Mario 64 wasn't number one dude, my finger was literally hovering over the button! 🤣

    Hilarious to see the Pokepark in there too, what on Earth were they thinking with that one?! 🤪

    It got so weird in the second half of 2021.  During weekly auctions, you never knew if some random ass 9.8 was about to sell for $10,000+ (or like Bioshock Infinite randomly selling for $1000).  Just complete lunacy, really.

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    Wata NES pop report now available

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    1 minute ago, AdamW said:

    Dragon Warrior has always been pretty cheap for what it is, hasn't it? From a quick search, raws seem to go for low to mid three figures, and the priciest copy HA ever sold was $2340, for a 1HP first print. That seems a very low price for a game that big. Seems to me like the market's already pricing in that it's pretty common?

    1HP or bust as far as I'm concerned on DW1.

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    Heritage Auctions Thread

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    1 hour ago, RETRO said:

    Fixed it! And separate from that, I'm also really glad to know this (about the first printing) because it increases my excitement to see what happens over Halloween weekend. While I'm concerned about certain broad trends (mostly downstream effects) and the ongoing business ethics components of all this (e.g. the conflict-of-interest issues re: these auction/grading house parent companies), I generally agree with you that there's no reason to get worked up over how other people spend their money. And as an active collector, I feel like I can both enjoy being in this sphere and also criticize it (because I want it to evolve) at the same time, i.e. I'm not just a crank—I really do like collecting sealed/graded games. So there's definitely a part of me that is extremely and maybe almost academically curious about what is going to happen with this first printing of Zelda and the auction overall. I doubt it'll be as fun as the CertifiedLink auction, which felt like it was a blast to both watch *and* participate in, but this should be pretty historic nevertheless!

    PS You're a warrior, man—six hours of live-streaming in 48 hours! Really enjoyed watching the parts of it I did.

    Oh absolutely haha.  This Heritage Auction will be entertainment of a whole different kind vs Certified Link.  Certified Link was a playground for a "normal person" to grab some games and have some fun.  This upcoming signature we get to see where the "affluent" toss their money, and what kind of overarching headlines and narratives will come from it.  It sounds weird to say I'm very excited for it, but I love watching all of this madness unfold in the hobby (for better or worse).

     

    And always appreciate you popping in, man!  I didn't realize it was going to be such a marathon when I first day down to stream on the Tuesday😅

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    Heritage Auctions Thread

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    1 hour ago, RETRO said:

    I realize it's on a $5/month (cancel anytime) subscription website I author, so I'm certainly not hard-selling it and won't say more about it, but I'm guessing at least one or two of you will want to know that this was just published. https://retrostack.substack.com/p/breaking-news-halloween-night-video

    Just a small amendment in the portion that is free to read: the Zelda that sold for 870K was actually a 3rd printing.  In the bottom right hand corner of the front, there is a small "R" instead of "TM". And on the back, the top screenshot shown has been changed from the 1st and 2nd printing to reflect a different image.

     

    That's part of the excitement and aura of the upcoming signature Zelda.  It is the first time a true 1st print has come to the open market in the new collecting era (hell, I'm not sure the last time one has traded hands, period.)

     

    Here is a 1st print listing from HA where you can compare the differences vs the one you have linked in your article: https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/the-legend-of-zelda-wata-85-cib-nes-tm-no-rev-a-first-production-nes-nintendo-1987-usa/a/7263-28037.s

     

     

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