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Around CIB price in that condition.

Yeah Tater did strong, especially without poster, but it always should have been $5k plus. I only won one game from that seller, she benefited from the typical ebay phenomenon of like items at open auction always selling higher than they expected. I will say that I grabbed a CIB Tater with poster not too long ago, maybe 4 months that went up on eBay at either $2499 or $2999 BIN and no one wanted it in the first 12 hours. I knew the seller as a former NA member and he was cool with a direct payment so it worked out for both of us thankfully.

There was a Rifle that popped up on ebay the other day, seller said he pulled it for a 3k offer (figured at least 5-7.5k) IMO. I have 2 rifles, 4 carts (2x BRM, 1 MACS, 1 MTS) and an original TV (that is just Panasonic if I recall). The Moving Target Simulator is by far the rarest cart in the SNES library and they just aren't out there. BRM or MACS used to hover in the $2k-$2.5k range as a cart but they've been there a long time and are due for a bump. MTS doesn't have enough sales date to have a known price. Most people don't require them for the set but they are definitely cool!

He's on Facebook, spoke to him sometime last year.

Stop teasing us already, give us a release date!

Yes someone has been buying and grading the display boxes on HA for awhile now. Those prices have no where to come but down, the SNES ones are super abundant mint.

I struck out most of Tuesday night, only one win. I did win several PS1 last night to make up for it though. Very odd, I thought most of the NES / SNES / N64 hammer prices were stronger than my expectations, but then PS1 was flatter and I won more than expected. Maybe people spent too much the night before. The Switch 100 sales are ludicrious and first to market advantage of course. I'm sure rarebucky is happy with the results!

VGA does dock for stickers. Ones that are damaged (like the partially removed one at top) are docked even worse. Those could definitely be removed with care, and I'm sure the game would bump into the VGA 80-80+ range without them.

They take about 3-5 business days to appear.

I'm a Madden collector and have been for well over a decade. Have the only confirmed NES prototype, many high grade sealed games of his as well. It's always been more niche than Mario / Zelda, but there's been Madden collectors around. One was JD Heins (RIP), old NA speedrunner and Madden collector. Another was busdriverj (sp?) who just did CIB but he got all the releases I believe. The commons CIBs have always been cheap but finding nice high grade sealed copies was never easy. Sure you had to spend $100s instead of $1000s ($10s of thousands now?) but there was still some demand there.

I'm a huge Madden fan and of course that got a huge RIP Madden boost, first to market advantage. All Madden games have been up (both in price and demand) since his death, but you aren't replicating those type of sales outside of HA. I'm curious what a nice Genesis Madden CE will go for now. That went for $50k last year and people were shocked, but I knew it would be at least $20+. That's gotta be a 6 figure game easily now as well.

I had some orders return ship yesterday and they now include the actual serial numbers in the email that are coming back to you, no more guess. Big improvement, especially for those of us with tons of orders where it was very difficult to figure out exactly which games from which order were coming back. It is very rare for me to get an entire order back in one box any more, most return shipments are partial orders.

Nothing on ebay is ever perfect, but that's about as nice as you can get buying ebay raw ungraded. You're also missing all of the obvious dust / etc on the seal, if there's any debris under the seal then that is a box flaw on grading. That hole your circled in picture 3 isn't a flaw either, that's a vent hole and normal.

Madden for $480k was kind of a big deal.

Metroid's legit, no questions asked. I applaud people for being hesitant with the numbers thrown around these days but that's not one to be scared of.

First off, don't give me that shit attitude like you do everyone else. I don't give opinions on real vs. fake anymore because I get tired of giving free advice when people don't appreciate or then want to argue about it (like this). I went thru our PMs, looks like in July 2020 I said hey I'm interested, you said you had no idea on value, then I responded I went back through the pictures and couldn't authenticate it as real so I'd pass. I'm one of the biggest sealed Madden collectors around so the fact that I wasn't willing to make an offer should say something. I only have this game sealed clamshell, not cardboard. Regardless, the Wata one sold was a V-overlap seam and finally a legit one sold on eBay after his death. This is what a cardboard style seal should look like, yours is neither. https://www.ebay.com/itm/203756983260 So, while I don't think it is a factory seal as we'd expect in the USA, the good news for you is that Wata authenticates all sorts of non official seals sometimes (like the LJN copies that were weird, the SMB3 "export" seal which isn't V-Seam, etc.) The lines on your boxes look like there's no color break at least, so perhaps wata could grade it as NS (No Seal) or name it as some distributor seal. That seal wasn't done by the traditional factory sealing method though, that much is obvious. End of day you'd now probably have to pay at least $10k to get it graded in declared value and worry about getting it across borders. I told you to get it graded in July 2020 if you were serious about selling, waiting has only costed you thousands of dollars in the meantime. You shit on grading plenty but now that it's convenient for you of course you'd be interested. No more free advice here, I've said my piece and people can make their own conclusions. I also barely check these forums once a day if that, so heaven forbid if I have better things to do than log in repeatedly to see what threads I need to respond to.

This was a reseal, thought most people realized that.

That's about the actual description of having Covid for me too. IT was 24 to 36 hours of intense hot (sweat beads) to cold (teeth chattering / goosebumps) and I hadn't really slept in 4 nights until last night. First time in my life I took I sleep aid (3mg melatonin) and man I slept like a baby and feel great today.

My deepest thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, may you all get through this together. Wish you the best in these times.

Welcome aboard!

I was the last person in the house to get it, our 7 year old brought it back from school I assume. I was positive 4 days later. Nonetheless I'm just sharing my experience for people to reach their own conclusions.

Don't get me wrong, if you don't want to die than the vaccine is your best solution. That is entirely different from let's get the entire population vaccinated so covid is no longer a thing. Point 2 is how it's been spun all along but that narrative needs to change to be vaccinated / get boosted every 6 months if you want to have the best chance of avoiding it entirely. Otherwise it's about reducing your symptoms... even though I'm the only vaccinated person and have had it the "worst", which is relatively mild thankfully. No sleep for 2 nights sucks though, feel more drained than anything else.

But that's exactly the point, viruses mutate faster than vaccines, hence why the Flu shot has limited effectiveness. I also know people first hand who have gotten it with boosters. Again, the point is that the vaccine simply reduces your risk posture and does not prevent it at all. And again, my unvaccined wife took it better than I have thus far. So many variables here and the vaccine is not as good as the Government leads you to believe. Mandates make zero sense if you can still catch it and spread it anyway! Someone is mandated to get it and then contagious 48 hours before symptoms onset, perfect for spreading it like wildfire. The mandate is about protecting others, which it isn't as effective as believed. We'll be on a new variant by summer likely.

I haven't noticed any difference compared to other outlets like ebay / forums / social media. Probably 5-10% of the population is flakey in some sense, either playing games in negotations, giving you a cold shoulder or misrepresenting items for sale. Sometimes misrepresentation is from ignorance rather than maliciousness, but it can still affect the value of the item you're buying.

Covid check in here, 7 year old postive Friday, a day or two of low energy but quick recovery (still in quarantine). Wife tested positive Sunday, pretty much a solid 24 hours of aches and staying in the bed not doing much. Been minor congestion and such as she heals but full energy to do things now. 5 year old and I both tested positive yesterday. 5 year old barely symptomatic at all. It was pretty mild for me on first 12 hours or so, but from 4pm to midnight I was wrecked with hot / cold flashes. I.e. beads of sweat off your head to teeth chattering and goosebumps. Been two nights now of very little actual sleep (just laying in bed tossing turning), and a low grade consistent headache has been noticeable too. Fingers crossed but I hope last night was the worst of it, seems mild based on rest of household. Never has a warm cup of coffee tasted so good though. Oh, and if anyone was wondering, I'm vaccinated rest of family is not. Last shot was in May though so out of 6 month window. And last point, this has chanced my opinion on vaccines. They don't do anything clearly. My symptoms were at least as bad as my wife's if not worse. We were preached about "herd mentality" which is obviously a crock of shit, even if 100% were vaccinated we'd all still be getting it. Elderly should strongly consider getting them but any type of forced mandate is bullshit. My opinion at least. This is going to be no more effective than the annual flu shot which is 50-60% and we don't mandate those. Get them in you're risk adverse but it doesn't guarantee shit.