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Theres one on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bugs-Bunny-in-Crazy-Castle-4-Nintendo-Game-Boy-Color-MINT-COMPLETE-CIB-RARE/303670137357

I've noticed a bit of a cooling breeze blowing too. That's why you always play both sides of the coin. A bit better buying but not as good selling.

I don't like to see individual person lose money, but I do like the swift blow to the market that people who pay attention will notice. You shouldn't expect to just buy graded and let it fly at auction without consequence. I will say that when it went for $2100 I thought it was more like a $750 - $1000 item and the open auction agreed. Finding a nice box on the large NES RPGs can be tough due to how much was crammed inside. And finding truly Mint Wata 9.4 and up manuals for those games is extremely tough. If you get someone trying to upgrade their internals I'm sure they'd spend $100+ on a manual that was guaranteed a 9+ at Wata. Which unfortunately the only way to do is to buy the graded CIB itself.

Eh I think it's completely fair, especially with the emphasis on IMPs and making sure the variants match. Back in the day when you married parts it wasn't nearly as precise and if you just kept the best conditioned cart or manual during a CIB upgrade then you may have matched the wrong components. As long as as it's the right variation it doesn't bother me. Besides, the cost of grading a CIB is more than Sealed and it isn't exactly cheap. People will only grade the stuff worth grading and only pay a regrade fee if they are pretty confident that the new component is in fact an upgrade.

NES is too old at this point. If we're talking about something that is most likely it'll be a newer console.

Yeah come on man, I know you have the custom shelving for VGA games but if there was ever one game in your collection to grade, that would be it. Just get around to it already

You just upgrade as high as you can afford and find. If its a desirable title and you are almost certain you can bump from 9.0 to 9.2 I would do it. Or at least keep all the components and add it to you to be graded pile somewhere down the road.

Why didn't you just congratulate someone on their find instead of posting some passive aggressive comment?

Congrats, I didn't even know this was a set and I can't imagine more than one or two other people have ever been able to say that!

Yeah I mean in all honestly I love the upgrade where you can see photos. That will be invaluable years down the road as these links expire. A thumbnail is better than nothing. But just don't pretend to be an unbiased price tracking site when you decide to exclude nearly a decade of sealed graded sales of VGA items. And then just lump together "graded" when it could be a graded CIB or a graded sealed game that is $1,000s of dollars apart in value. I like GVN but the amount of rookie mistakes they are making here is a joke. Theirwhole thing is to pimp Wata graded sales and they can't even do that correctly.

I see the main page takes you to either "price guide" or "wata cert lookup", if anyone was still on the fence about where the site is going.

GoCollect has an ownership share in Wata and bought out GVN. They are making a conscious decision to eliminate the VGA tracking to push more people to Wata. Let's just be transparent about that. They are doing this with profit in mind.

If you're on the fence throw him an offer for less and it either works out or it doesn't.

So you're too busy to pay for items, yet not too busy to spend time searching ebay, finding the ones you want, and determining a max bid? See the thing is, most collectors actually look forward to receiving the items they bid on. So, they generally want to pay in a reasonable time frame so they get their item shipped sooner. I've dealt with thousands of buyers and sellers over the years and if you don't pay within a day or two you're in the less than 1% club. And in that less than 1% club, these people also tend to be the one that play "shenanigans" as I call it. Whether that's doing returns, buyers remorse, asking a million questions, trying to renegotiate after the sale, etc. And all of those 1% people get blocked from me after the sale is complete. I will GLADLY take less money from a no hassle buyer than deal with one who has issues. You can justify it youself however you like, but sellers do not want to deal with these people period.

I sold a manual two weekends ago and some people were still offering $500 for it like that was a fair price, lol. Yeah a graded beat CIB copy sold for $6k a few months back and that one isn't slowing down.

You have no idea how much I REALLY, REALLY bite my tongue everytime I see the damn investment word come up. These people will lose money though, joke's on them.

Wow beauty for the thread, nice job!

That's not exactly the argument, look at it this way. Some small subset of the population will become collectors of something. Maybe 1% of total population are collectors of something (pick whatever number you want). Those people may collect cards, autographs, games, Pokemon, precious metal, comics, etc. Or even maybe knick knacks of little tangible value like stuffed animals or rocks or who knows. 1% collects something. The argument is not that videogames will increase the pool of collectors, it's that with those 1% having to collect something, what do you think they will wind up collecting? Certainly not music, that collectibility died with records. Likely not movies, there's already digital. I understand someone can make the argument that if games go digitial then collecting for them will drop off too... but even digital only games get physical releases as collector's editions that sell out instantly. So with that said, if you could pick one thing that those 1% collectors would be most likely to wind up collecting, what would it be? I can't think of a better answer than video games and that's the argument being made there.

Just when you think the prices and hobby can't get any nuttier... And I thought Facebook raffles were bad!

It has nothing to do with that for a lot of people. It's as simple as liquidating one 4 or 5 digit item and using cash from that sale to buy the next thing. If you've been collecting a decade plus then the items that were $100 then are $1000s now and you just move the cash from one thing to the next.

Yeah it's not that rare there's been a lot of them on ebay throughout the years. I think I may have linked you to the one you bought @RpgCollector a few years back?

Eh I think your demographic is off. I'd say heaviest NES players are probably about a decade younger in the 35-45 bracket, on average. Maybe not the true types that drop millions in a year but heaviest meaning the majority of the "high end" action, in terms of 4, 5 or 6 figure deals. I also notice that the 40 and up crew is more into Atari while 35 and under would rather do N64 or Gamecube. SNES / Genesis somewhere in between. I also expect to be a lifelong collector, everyone needs a hobby. Will there be natural thinning or reallocating of a collection as you approach older age, sure. But no one is going to be fireselling their grails just to dump it and put money into travel or something like that. With prices as they are today it's really not that hard to grab a game or two and pay for a whole trip. Could be the same thing with college tuition, you sell a game or two at the beginning of a semester and there goes that bill. Mint CIB and Sealed will always command a lot of value but sure there will be peaks that are unsustainable and dips along the way.

While true, a lot of the old guard has done the selling to the new guard. We get to decide how we spend the money from those sales. You don't have to have comic book speculators becoming set collectors (they won't) to push up the oddball titles that the old guard will appreciate.

ALL SOLD! Title Box Man Cart Extras Price Bomberman Ex Acptble VG $ 50 Double Dribble Ex Ex Ex $ 15 Fire N Ice VG Ex Ex $ 365 GI Joe Real American Hero Acptble ---- Acptble $ 115 Ice Hockey VG Ex Ex NES Poster $ 20 Kickle Cubicle VG G VG Poster $ 70 Monopoly VG Ex Ex Poster $ 15 Pinball VG Ex Ex $ 30 Pipe Dream VG Ex Ex Reg Card $ 15 Robocop 2 G G G $ 50 Super Team Games Ex Ex Ex $ 15 Tetris VG Ex Ex $ 15 The Three Stooges Ex Ex Ex $ 30 Toobin Acptble Acptble Acptble $ 25 Ultima Exodus VG VG VG Poster / Reg $ 30 Where's Waldo VG VG Ex $ 25

Yeah 100% reseal should be H Seam.