Gulag Joe
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NWC gold found at church rummage sale
Gulag Joe replied to docile tapeworm's topic in General Collecting Discussion
I'm def in the gulag on this one -
Is virtua racing for Genesis the most expensive home console video game? We're there any other games from 8/16 bit that came in at $100+ retail?
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I like what Wata does with their matrix. If I sell a Wata game, another person can use the data from the case to find all the contents of the box, including the baggie. I'm not sure if VGA offers the same assurability. The baggie is the most important part of the CIB. If you don't have it, the game is unpure.
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I have not seen that email, but did get an email from Heritage that they're looking to hire video game aficionados.
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Thought this was a little unique and had to share even though it isn't a game. Sealed Galoob NES Game Genie
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Not into qualified. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I want to buy one and want to know exactly what's inside that box, is there a way to find that out or do I have to hope the seller maybe paid extra to have VGA scribble the contents onto a piece of torn notebook paper?
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Ok I feel way better now that I know it's that. The first thing I thought was there's some ridiculous Wata collection circulating auction houses that's called the Cowabunga collection and it's making every ninja turtles game way more expensive than usual.
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The wut?
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I'm not sure if there's already an existing term for them- l call them true CIBs (all original contents of the game are there, like inserts, baggie, etc). Anyway, just watched a raw NES Turtles 2 mint CIB sell for $750. A similar ebay auction of the same title sold for over $800 a few weeks back. This obviously isn't the case for every NES game, but the "true cib" market for mint titles is certainly trending upward.
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Ungraded Stadium Events for $30k
Gulag Joe replied to Gulag Joe's topic in General Collecting Discussion
I had many of my games graded by VGA a hundred years ago because the cost was about the same as a nice acrylic display case. -
The turnaround times are fast now because most of the people who collect video games already sent all their games out to Wata and VGA. There's not that many games left to grade because they're scarce and rare AF.
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My point is not about companies not delivering on their promises. My point is CGC is losing money in their video game grading endeavor with every passing day they're not open for business.
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CGC had all this talk about launching a grading service and here we are all these months later and still nothing. Each day they aren't open is akin to that scene in Interstellar where every minute is 7 years.
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Wata graded games are flooding ebay right now. Not with any games in particular, just in general. We're gonna see some leveling off here very soon.
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Ungraded Stadium Events for $30k
Gulag Joe replied to Gulag Joe's topic in General Collecting Discussion
The ungraded subpars are commanding that high end now, so that is the new reality. I think anything above a 9 would be fair to command that price- especially something that's already graded. But a raw copy? It's a hard reality. -
A subpar ungraded cart only Stadium Events sold for $30k. Has anyone notified the Wata police and the youtube squads for fraud? Or are we now beginning to accept reality?
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I had a bunch of dvd cases shipped recently Edit: I want to clarify that this was for a turbo order from December 2020
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I would not bid on that. That auction looks suspect.
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What a steal!
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The number of words in the email is the number of business days you still have to wait to get the order you placed in November 2020
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I can agree with this. How about "they are the pros because they effectively marketed themselves as such" VGA doesn't have much of a marketing presence other than "we exist".
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I don't see these being a thing down the road. Maybe the collectors edition version.
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Welp. Prices seem to be coming down and leveling off around the 100k-500k range.
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Hot take on the Goldin Auction: The zelda sells for a million The Sonic sells for 500k
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Yea you def have something there!
