Gulag Joe

1 hour ago, CasualCart said:

 

 

Let's all pretend that we've never already done that!

59 minutes ago, Gloves said:

If you send a game in without any foam block at all, would that impact the grade? Seems kind of odd.

I might be wrong on this but I think if you don't have one in your cib wata will add one for you.

3 hours ago, CodysGameRoom said:

If I send my CIB Bases Loaded 2 to WATA for grading would they be able to tell my foam block is REPRODUCTION?!

That foam block isn't a part of the overall Wata CIB grade

3 hours ago, Hammerfestus said:

You mean CIB PS1 with the jewel case swapped out?

Yea

Been seeing more and more of these for ps1 wata graded games. Not sure how I feel about it. Does wata grade NES CIB that have replacement/reproduction boxes?

Look out, Super Mario 64!

I know there's still 3 days left, but alot of the games in the Goldin auction are sitting at low prices at the moment. Anything can happen but at this stage for HA auctions the prices tend to be slightly higher. Perhaps this is where we see the great drop off?

1 hour ago, Code Monkey said:

Where did you get this information?

VGA. Invoice completion date lists July of last year. Sent them my order in February of last year. I emailed them in October of last year asking for an ETA. They told me it would be 6+ months from the completion date on the invoice. I have still yet to receive my order to this very day.

4 hours ago, Code Monkey said:

Finally got an update today. VGA actually sent me an invoice for the games I submitted in November.

That means you now have at 6+ month wait from the date on that invoice. Best case scenario- you will have your vga games back some time in August.

6 hours ago, 3rdStrongestMole said:

Is there a font that does this with the capital and lowercase letters,  or do you have to keep spamming shift or what's your secret?!?  

Dedication to the troll.

9 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I mean let's be real here - most of the actual "grails" are pretty shit, as games go.

I'm just fishing for opty

Surprised nobody said "buy it, open it up and play it" yet

The snes Mortal Kombat is a good one too. Def a good find but nothing to deter the market value of anything. All the hard ons in the thread won't last long.

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2 hours ago, OptOut said:

But wait, @Gulag Joe promised me that sealed video games don't exist!

My world is melting, everything I have ever known is a lie! 

Gulag Joe sees not too many big titles. Cool find, but a nothing burger. No SM 64, not really any NES. No NBA Jam, no Griffey, just mostly the games nobody bought, per usual.

1 hour ago, GPX said:

If anything, that suggests to me VGA isn’t part of the market manipulation ring. And that the people heavily involved in the big bids are supporting WATA more likely.

Did something actually sold for $1, what was it? 

No the lowest sold for $61. Quite a few sold for that and around that range. Many sat at $1 until the end and I think some sympathy buyers scooped them all up. Brutal.

I understand the allure of the box and the Wata slab, but you can get the CIB of the actual game in the same condition for likely the same price. But you get an actual game and manual with it. Heck you could probably get a sealed version of that for a little more than double that amount. It's not the white buffalo Ken Griffey Jr. Presents...but still.

56 minutes ago, drxandy said:

@Gulag Joelooks like the Griffey box sold on the 8th, what'd it go for?

$204

Wow roughly 250 of the games in this auction sold for under $200. Most of them were PS2 and newer but still. Some of these sellers lost a lot of money on this one.

WOW! I can't imagine sending games off to VGA to take more than a year to get graded and then to try and flip them in an auction only for them to sell for $1!

LOLOLOLOLOL

VGA needs to enter themselves into these auctions and bid them up because this auction is looking like a real big bust and every title is slabbed by VGA.

Looks like mostly junk to me. There are maybe 2 titles in there that I'd be mildly interested in. These auction houses are running out of content QUICK.

Anybody else watching the Ken Griffey Jr. Winning Run "empty box" auction?

What a stupid comment 

4 hours ago, GPX said:

Sometimes you don’t need population reports to deduce how pricey a game is. Historically thru yearly Ebay sold listings, Madden games (including sealed games) have been of little value or if at the pricey end, has always been the more affordable among the most sought after franchises. Coupled with the fact, no one ever makes a big scene about the bargains they got from buying up a Madden stack of games on forums/YouTube/etc. No one that is, before the crazy prices have popped up out of nowhere on HA in the recent 1-2 years.

What you’re doing it seems, is seeing the current prices on HA, and then extrapolating that to mean the title is “holy moly” rare. Which I don’t think this is the case here. 

No. I was pointing out that people do collect Madden. Me. I agree that they've been relatively inexpensive when available. But again, all the ones I've seen have been around the 8.5 or less grade range and they rarely come up for auction. I'm not talking about HA. I'm talking about the last 15 or so years on Ebay and how infrequently they pop up for sale. 

24 minutes ago, GPX said:

It was never talked about in terms of holygrailness among any of the conversations from sealed collectors within the relevant forums.

While this may be true, I never frequented or participated in forums like this until some titles started selling for high amounts and there was no population report in sight. With that said, I've always been tracking original Genesis Madden as well as the IBM and Apple versions since 2000. They are few and far between. Most of the Genesis Maddens I've seen offered had too much damage for my liking. Should've bought the broke ones when I had the chance.

31 minutes ago, Kguillemette said:

I know this is a whole different topic, but what exactly is a "real gamer?" 

A real gamer accuses everyone else of hacking