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They've been trying to recruit talent and reaching out to people for a bit now. Maybe they finally found someone to help them kick things off. If competition produces better products and prices then let's see what the future brings. I will say that as a very casual card collector, I had no idea they even graded sports cards. It's PSA or BGS or bust there. Wonder if they can carve out a niche here...

All the meme stocks taking a good hit today, some of them a bit ridiculous. I may be a WISH Yolo fanboy at this point, been buying 100 or 200 shares a day for awhile now. Position is up to 2500 shares around $12.05 cost averaged. Timing the bottom is impossible on these but when you believe in something as a long play you aren't scared of trying to get some on the dips...

Yeah but this isn't just a handheld it's a console. I play in console mode exclusively so bigger screen doesn't matter to me. You'd have to get some kind of technological upgrade factored in if you're trying to appeal to the Switch as a console crowd. This is targeted for the handheld crowd I suppose.

Seems meh, the only thing I thought for sure they would do is 4k and clearly that didn't happen. Seems like a Switch 1.1 instead of Switch 2.0, very incremental.

Thanks for tag, will make for some good coffee reading! Also, was glad to see TinStar make a list at #138. I haven't played that much SNES but that's one game my daughter picked out based on box art so we tried it. I thought it was pretty solid for what it was as well.

Tough decision I'd be extremely unhappy if I lost either this day and age.

They'll be out at some point and they have they wouldn't affect my buying. We've been operating without them for years at this point so I've gotten used to it.

It's probably on the case. I get some cases with fingerprints, cloudiness, etc. Supposedly they will fix them if you reach out but I don't think any case will come back 100% perfect.

I don't like to buy a drop out of the gate but if it's a big name company I want to own I may take the chance. Last one worked out pretty good for me, eBay. Bought them late April after they tanked on what I thought were solid earnings was in around $56. And it's been pretty much straight up the last 2 months, though I only have a very small position there. End of day, if you really want to own a company a post earnings sale isn't always a bad thing.

WBA unexpectedly on sale today for the buy and hold crowd. Had to add some more shares due to the unexpected sale. Earning beat, increased forecasts for rest of year and pays a 3.5% dividend. Didn't expect to add to my current position but figured I had to at $49.

I'm not 50/50 on it, I'm 99/1. And I have at least 100 sealed Genesis at this point for what it's worth.

I'm really confused why people think that Wata would intentionally withhold population reports thinking that it affects their bottom line? They get paid on volume. The don't care whether a sealed Mario is worth $1,000 or $100,000. They are paid on the number of games submitted. You could argue that higher declared values make them more money, but I assume that extra amount they are billing just offsets the cost of insurance. Not a net gain. End of day I would prefer to see some population reports out there at this time too, but I don't see it as profit driven. It's likely just a laundry list hundreds of items of long and population report is not at the top of the priority list.

Can't describe it really, you just learn with experience. End of day I'm not comfortable with it though. No overlap seam on back like the ones in completed and the hangtab looks to be too far up without poking through the plastic. Looks like it was already popped up and seal was applied afterwards. Original seal would have the hangtab applied down with more pressure or it would poke through and cause a hole if rising that high (which is more typical with what happens).

Loved D2 back in the day, may be worth a nostalgia trip down memory lane. Sadly I just don't game at all much anymore.

Something feels a bit off to me initially as well. I also remember someone selling a ton of fakes sometime in thr 3 to 5 year ago window, kept relisting around 75 or 100 if I recall. If you have other sealed Genesis games try flicking the wrap slightly. Authentic has a very distinctive feel and sound believe it or not.

@A_Feisty_Pickle Thanks for that trick! I checked all 6 of my Post-Grading orders and I'd say the majority seem pretty close to as expected, they could be accurate. However, I did have a couple that seemed a bit off. I'd temper expectations until you seem the official in the final grading portal. I'm not intimately familiar with the grading process, but they do always put a final set of expert eyes on them and they almost always bump down rather than up if they adjust at all. Sometimes you can get a subtle box past an untrained eye but an expert will catch it the vast majority of the time. So I'd say probably a high percent likelihood that most grades will be correct, but if they change at all in post grading it will likely be down rather than up.

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Most of the picks in here are pretty good. Bomberman Quest was a HUGE pain in the ass for me for many years, until I finally got a CIB Mint one a couple months back. Felt so happy to finally slay that beast. The number of confirmed ISS 99's you used to be able to count on one hand, that game is remarkably rare. I think I sold @RpgCollector his copy many years back? I either sold it to him or Nick Morgan, and DreamTR sold one to the other person if I recall. I can't think of any other confirmed off the top of my head but I'm sure at least a couple more have surfaced (I would hope.) A couple other ones that used to give me problems not yet mentioned: Rhino Rumble - Was truly rare, then at least 3 or 4 (more?) sealed cases turned up. So you tend to see one or two always out there on eBay, but if those ever dry up then I'm sure this one will go through a drought and be quite tough again. Casper - Again, a few on eBay now, but I never found a nice one. My copy is like a 6 / 7 out of 10 at best. I wouldn't call it a top tier rare but it's extremely uncommon and very condition sensitive in my experience. Almost like Casper on SNES, you see it time to time but you basically never see it Mint.

I got called out of GME and AMC way too early, albeit at nice profits, but I wouldn't want to sell covered calls that close to the money on WISH right now. The momentum is just too strong. Grabbed another 200 shares today at $13.25. Not sure how big I'll go with the position but I'm taking it day by day and assessing the volume and pattern before committing. Great read to anyone thinking about getting into truly "Investing" in WISH. A writeup by a big instituational investor: https://docsend.com/view/zuw9nz7aq7apzzm5 I'm definitely playing the swing and would get out near term if it did a nice run to $20+, but also not scared of going long if it stalls a bit. Volume is pretty darn high though and I'd be shocked if the buyers let it fall below $12 again in the near term.

Well supposedly the change to a Year manual happened so early in the Matte production, that's why neither is labeled an IMP. I don't think the majority cares one way or the other at this point.

Don't be buying the dip here guys, learn about the technicals on the chart. It looks like clear head and shoulders, stock failed the retest of $40k on the same day the SMA200 crossed the SMA50. These are all signs that it has a steep ways to go before bottoming out.

Anyone else playing WISH? I bought 300 shares the first day at $12.50 then added 200 more shares several days in a row as you could tell $11 was holding. I'm in 1300 shares at $11.70 ish and it's finally getting out above $13. $12 was the pivotal level it looks to have blown through that finally. Would love to add more to the position but not sure if I'll get the chance. The meme hype got this on my radar but I played it for a couple of reasons: 1) Didn't mind going long and saw very little risk below $10. 2) The steep spike down to $8 on May 13 coincided first available day to sell shares post the IPO lockup period. Early adopters probably dumped it there, or emotional traders. 3) The two days of meme hype mania did ridiculous volume, more than shares outstanding in a 2 days stretch. You could tell ownership almost entirely turned over, old shares were mostly in the hands of new owners. 4) Average volume after IPO dump was around 10M shares a day, average volume over past two weeks has been about 100M shares a day, on a float size of about 360M shares available. End of day, it always boils down to price and volume, simple as that. When the volume is there you just go along with the flow and it works out much more often than not.

To be fair, the time to grade a cart is minimal. It's the 5.0 CIBs that really slog down the system, hence why Wata raised the price of CIB grading ("temporarily") to $170 per game. Cuts out a lot of riff raff pretty quickly.

My honest advice, don't quit your day job and don't give the illusion of being too precise. A 100 point scale with .5 increments is too much. You can't even get boxing judges to agree on a 1-10 scale of scoring a fight and that should be as simple as counting knockdowns and number of punches landed and thrown, right? Should literally be simple math right? Yet here you expect multiple graders (I hope you have multiple eyes on every grade, otherwise your system will have inherent bias of the only grader) to grade games the same based on .5 increments on 200 total points, meaning literally 400 different grade possibilities? I'm a math guy and a graded game guy. Yet grading is not mathematically precise as you've made it seem, there is a good amount of art / skill in just handling a ton of games and having a feel for how nice game is. The experience is far greater than a checklist scale. Also, if a company becomes successful, the amount of time spent grading is the huge bottleneck. Being efficient there is where you make your money. If it takes you forever go methodically go down a check list line by line then you've already set yourself up for the same bottleneck problem you are advertising that you can beat (turnaround times). Unless of course no one subs stuff to you anyway, then sure you'll hit those turnarounds when you barely have any work to do.

Aren't the only people clamoring about these population reports "investors"? If you want a copy of a game, do you really need to know how many games have been subbed to date? Sure, population reports need to come out but if you're really that upset about it then it's just an excuse. I mean heaven forbid we collected stuff pre-Wata like damn gunslingers of the Wild West not knowing what was out there.