A_Feisty_Pickle

Looks like turnaround estimates have grown again. Also they seem to be no longer taking Warp speed? 

Gonna keep it together for now but I'll shoot you a message if I change my mind! 

1 hour ago, AdamW said:

So here's a possibly fun thing: as some of you know I've been tracking certain Pokemon listings on eBay very extensively. Today I tweaked my population survey to exclude listings I could tell were of the same item, to improve accuracy...but while debugging it I realized the information is pretty juicy in its own right, so I made it its own little function that lets me track flippers. I wonder if I can pitch a show to HGTV. Here's some juicy highlights of flipped listings so far:

Game: Pokémon: FireRed Version, print: #1 ((WA)AGB-BPRE USA)
Sealed: False, pgserial1: 000087824
Cart: NA, manual: AGB-BPRE-USA, end date: 2020-12-27, price: 139.99 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/184598916277?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true
Cart: AGB-BPRE-USA, manual: AGB-BPRE-USA, end date: 2021-02-06, price: 499.95 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/133646006691?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

Wood Floor Guy (twobrothersgames) is in the flipping game - bought that copy for $140 in December, added a cart, sold it for $500 in February.

Game: Pokémon: Blue Version, print: #1b (U/DMG-APEE USA)
Sealed: False, condition: 75, grader: WATA, inventory: 574401-003
Cart: DMG-APEE-USA, manual: UNK, end date: 2020-03-23, price: 150 - https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/122012-17869.s
Cart: DMG-APEE-USA, manual: UNK, end date: 2021-04-15, price: 1225 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/224422345939?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

Flipping MVP here - that's a WATA-graded 7.5 CIB of the "Blue text" Sandshrew print of Blue, bought from HA for $150 last March, sold for $1225 on eBay two weeks ago. (Of course there may have been intermediate flips, my eBay data only goes back to November and I don't track sales outside of eBay and HA).

Game: Pokémon: FireRed Version, print: #5 (AGB-BPRE USA-1)
Sealed: True, condition: 94, grader: WATA, inventory: 577102-001
Cart: UNK, manual: UNK, end date: 2021-01-17, price: 2040 - https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/7239-97071.s
Cart: UNK, manual: UNK, end date: 2021-02-15, price: 4724.8 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/284184494495?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

WATA 9.4 sealed Player's Choice FireRed, flipped from HA to eBay in less than a month at more than twice the price.

Game: Pokémon: FireRed Version, print: #2 ((WA)AGB-BPRE USA-1)
Sealed: True, condition: 80, grader: WATA, inventory: 574371-004
Cart: UNK, manual: UNK, end date: 2021-02-22, price: 2160 - https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/122108-18083.s
Cart: UNK, manual: UNK, end date: 2021-04-29, price: 4136.33 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/284240540387?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

Nearly as good of a result on a WATA 8.0 FireRed second print (that's a wireless-adapter-included print, most people don't know the difference between #1, #2 and #3, they're all variants on the wireless-adapter-included theme) - HA to eBay, two months, nearly double the money.

There are some failed flips and current attempts as well, but those are the juiciest successes / most evil price gougers (delete according to your opinions) so far...:P

Might see myself on that list someday... Snagged these recently and trying to decide if I should hold on to the Crystal and Silver or flip them. Only one I needed was Gold (and now the only CIB I'm missing is Fire Red)

 

More Sega games! No S tiers but we'll take what we can get. (Only one of the Sonics are new, other is from last week) 

Did some more poking around Ebay. I'm seeing a lot more "RTB" seals over "tube" seals which makes sense since supposedly "RTB" is a later run. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

VGA - https://www.ebay.com/itm/143644010508?epid=5520&hash=item2171d9a80c%3Ag%3AHG0AAOSwefhe-Mp9&LH_ItemCondition=1000

WATA - https://www.ebay.com/itm/154400570280?hash=item23f2fdbba8%3Ag%3A~NUAAOSwr-5gaEyN&LH_ItemCondition=1000

It looks pretty similar to other sold listings on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224414846915?epid=5520&hash=item34402acfc3%3Ag%3ABLMAAOSwAHRgbQnk&LH_ItemCondition=1000&nma=true&si=m%2BzayzrSGVs5PfvjBTzmRoa7JiU%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284209837275?epid=214712312&hash=item422c39f4db%3Ag%3Anz4AAOSw9jNgQ9Y6&LH_ItemCondition=1000&nma=true&si=m%2BzayzrSGVs5PfvjBTzmRoa7JiU%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I'm not an expert, especially with Genesis games, but looks like HA classifies it as an RTB seam.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/video-games-sonic-the-hedgehog-2-wata-92-a-sealed-rtb-seam-gen-sega-1992-usa/a/122048-19682.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

1 minute ago, a3quit4s said:

Did they parachute it over your house from the plane? Did that actually come from Japan and how much was the shipping? I can't get a package in 4 days from FL to MD so that is really remarkable. 

They only charged $3 for shipping so I'm not sure what the actual cost for them was. Although maybe I'm a lucky case. I think Memphis is an international hub and I only live a few hours from there. 

49 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

Can't believe it took them this long to pivot to online sales. Although if alot of their base is out of country sales I wouldn't want to be dealing with shipping overseas. It's bad enough trying to get usps to deliver a package to the next state over

I bought a PS2 from Japan on a Friday morning and it delivered Tuesday.  Faster than most First Class packages. 

Sonic 2! Seems legit but wouldn't mind a second opinion. Grade predictions? 

10 hours ago, SilentMonkee said:

Did you go to the website and check on the status of your order during that 2 months?  What did it say?

I sent a few games in for speed-run service, they were delivered last Monday according to USPS.  Wednesday the status was already in grading.  So I assume they did the cleaning service I selected.  This is my first sub so I don't know if grading means someone actually working on it or just a general term of waiting to be graded.  

 

My order is Turbo, but I've been in "grading" for 3 months now, so I assume general "waiting to be graded" status. 

On 2/15/2021 at 8:35 PM, Joyomofrobro said:

I am so happy with my line-up of games in picture collected so far for the PlayStation 3 system I included an attached photo. Still looking for more PS3 searching for certain titles. Wondering if anyone would say PS3 will have more value someday. I found it was not that expensive to collect after the PS4 released and now got all these games, that's about the time I started my collecting of PS3 titles. I one day hope to find a PS2 'VGA' hook-up with audio my T.V. that's older has PC setting and I know it would work. I like my T.V. can still display 480p. PS2 games and PS1 have high prices in most cases compared to PS3 I noticed but I figure the times will change for that system in the future price wise. Maybe someone would disagree?

I like how a lot of these titles have 3x in price since this was posted 2 months ago. 

1 hour ago, BreaKBeatZ said:

Gran Turismo, GTA 3, and God of War have all sold for over $10,000 sealed and 9.8 WATA graded

While not as high yet, I noticed Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts sold for a combined ~$9k-$10k this last week on HA. Still waiting on getting my grades back... But am expecting good results. I paid about $450 raw for the pair just 12 months ago lol. No plans on selling though, my favorite games from when I was young. 

10 hours ago, MiamiSlice said:

Here's my own contribution to the what-the-hell pile: 

 

Best of Playstation Network, Folklore, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Puppeteer, Lollipop Chainsaw, Tales of Xillia 2, Tales of Graces F are all mid tier titles that have jumped past week or two. None as bad as your example though. Glad I knocked my PS3 games out already lol. 

I haven't been waiting nearly as long as some of you (50+ days), but you'd think after a while they'd quit taking submissions when they get this far backed up. When I sent my games in, Turbo was labeled at approximately 45 business days and now it's approximately 90. Even going by those numbers, the approximate time is increasing faster than how long my games have actually been there. At that rate they'll never get graded. But of course if you pause submissions there goes your cashflow! 

Sorry if this is the wrong spot, couldn't really tell where to post this... I have a Genesis DS-16 kiosk unit that I've been able to test everything out so far except the manual cartridge switch. I have it set to loop on a schedule and it works fine, so that is nice. Someone sold me one of their extra buttons they say goes to their kiosk, but maybe it's a different connector type. Can someone point me to the right direction on finding the right connection? I don't care if it's a non authentic kiosk button since I don't have the kiosk to go with it, just want to test the functionality. Below are pictures of the connector for the DS-16 and the button I was sent. 

I sent in a Turbo run early January. We're sitting right at 45 business days now which is what the estimate was when I sent them in (but the estimate jumped to 60 days while in transit to Wata). Hopefully I'll hear something back in the next couple weeks. The longer time goes on the more I wish I would have just paid the few extra $ for Speedrun.

PS3 prices have already grown quite a bit since I started collecting them back in 2019. I'm at a little over 300 games for the console and have pretty much everything I'm after, including I think every single JRPG and horror game. Only big game I'm missing is Syberia but I don't think that'll happen. Lots of these games you could get for $10-$20 and have doubled+ in the past 6 months. 

I'm probably a little younger than most people here, so I pretty much grew up with the N64. Yeah the controller is janky, small library, etc, but probably my favorite multiplayer console. I still play Mario Party 1-3 every month with my friends. Micro Machines is probably my favorite not popular multiplayer game on the console. Throw in Mario Kart, Golf, Tennis, Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2... great time. 

Also from a collecting point of view I love the variety of consoles and controllers. Biggest gripe is not a good way to put the carts on a shelf.

Recently the notepad and two stress bananas from the DK64 press kit sold on ebay for $425. I have the VHS and keychain. Not really interested in selling, but curious if people think the VHS + keychain is worth more than, less than, or same as the notepad and bananas.

 

I've got a huge PS3 collection which unfortunately I haven't played most of yet lol. Alice Madness Returns had a really cool atmosphere with pretty basic platforming elements. I wouldn't say it was a great game, but pretty unique. 

EDIT: Whoops just saw it was on 360 as well. I'll try and come up with some other interesting titles.

I know Super Star Wars is pretty common to find sealed, but my first sealed game to find in a store. A few flaws but overall I am happy with it. Assuming it's a legit seal...

I've got some Bose QC35 II's that I really like. Wireless, long battery life, comfortable (I forget I'm wearing them half the time), and noise cancelling. They're expensive but I use them for calls and listening to music pretty much all work day. 

Starting the year off good! In 2018 I found an NES M8 locally for $300 (from a game store no less). Today my wife found a Genesis demo unit on Marketplace for $40! Unfortunately I don't have a model 1 power adapter so I'm going to swing by a game store after work and give in a test run. Fingers crossed!

11 hours ago, Romiked2689 said:

Fuck no lol. I think I half wanted it because what the hell that just shows anything goes on ds lol. I have a cooking one also lol 

The elusive "Stop Cooking"

Looks similar to the Gamestop cases. Maybe someone customized one?