charleybrown3

Its much easier to preserve a comic? Comics were sold in convenience stores and news stands. They were shipped on pallets and exposed to open air, handled by kids, and were not considered collectible pre 1970's. Its not even a comparison when video games were sealed in cases. Games like Mario 64 are most likely still in factory sealed cases and being pulled for grading to sell to the next dope for several hundred thousand.

I place bids to set a floor for an item i may own early on. In some cases you end up owning multiples of the item. This happened with TMNT 1 and FF 1 and 5 comics where I ended up with several (worked out well). If I had paid 1.5 mil for the mario 64 and wanted to continue to inflate the bubble I would most definitely bid on this one early to give the appearance of competition. This is a high stakes game of hot potato with a game like Mario 64 and even the COD for 22k.

https://www.thegamer.com/wata-cofounder-conflict-of-interest-criticism/ I love how theyre playing telephone with the headlines now

When you think youre smarter than everyone else you think you can get away with anything and they most likely will in this case. On ebay people bid at the last second to snipe the auction. On heritage a lot of the action takes place in the live auction portion. In some rare cases my high bid that I had placed weeks before held up but that was pre pandemic. If i was pumping the (WATA) market I would want to demonstrate that the Mario 64 sale wasnt a fluke and I would be bidding up the 9.8 early on. Oh wait thats happening!

My guess is you will see a lot more of these coming up for sale. Who knows how many are in the queue at WATA? People never thought they would be worth 50k let a lone for 1.5 million. Percentage wise 1000 is a small number considering the production run.

When you have heritage auctions in bed with the grading company anything is possible. I stand by my theory that the mario 64 was bought by either WATA or Rally or someone that stands to benefit from the publicity of the sale. WATA would get more submissions and higher grading fees. Rally would get more dopes to buy fractional shares. Not even a pharma bro would be that retarded to pay 1.5 mil for a mario 64.

Recent events- Mark Haspel (WATA chief advisor) has an ebay store where he sells WATA rated Atari games (almost all 9.6 and 9.8's). He is an executive on the company about us page. 6 months after he cofounded wata he formed an LLC for his ebay business and has been selling many games on and presumably off ebay.

You have no idea how many of each game is sealed mint. Thats why you have to be retarded to pay these new prices. There are way more 9.8 A++ WATA Mario 64's. In only 6 weeks weve seen 3 (one VGA 95 and 2 9.8's).

Estimated 12 million of these Mario 64 carts produced? Out of those do you think its possible that 1000 people kept a sealed one in pristine condition? I would be surprised if there weren't at least 1000 9.8 mario 64's. There would probably be more but the employees of WATA only have so many friends.

I was being a smartass. Dont you think there's a reason why WATA hasnt released POP reports?

What POP reports?