Dan64

We did contact nearly every single seller and had them confirm they understood the change that was taking place. I believe out of just shy of 100 sellers, 1 did not get back to us and we deactivated their two listings to ensure no one was charged a fee or unable to adjust their pricing due to the change. Changes like these are rare, but I would rather react quickly to the feedback of our sellers than to drag it on. We noticed people were listing the same on our site than on ebay etc we believe to not understanding the structure. At end of all this, it was about doing what was right. Also about lowering our fee. Potentially on any transaction from 3-8% less. And yes optout, there has been plenty of sales contrary to your positive outlook and support

We had noticed that many items were being posted for same of Ebay etc so we decided to listen to the clients. We are switching out fee structure. Instead of a baked in fee that has the buyer paying the fees, we have gone to a seller fee structure. Seller Fees 12% < 20k 10%< 20-99.9 7% > 100k And to celebrate this, we are waiving the 3% credit card fee for 24 hours. Our sellers all have been made of the change so while a few priced accordingly, most prices starting right now are 15% cheaper. Thank you for the overwhelming support and feedback. We are getting there day by day -Dan

There currently is no sold date. We haven't displayed sale data as we should but that is because we are working on an overall sales data from many auction houses to display all sales as a full category. We have the format down and working with developers, I expect we will be able to have this free on our site in first quarter

I can't disagree. I will see what the developers can do about it

Yes, it is so the top portion is there in case you want to click on another category. I was debating if we should go without. Thoughts? Want the top to go with you or scroll without?

We did go ahead and post an article on No Rev-A and Circle Rev-A, please do not hesitate to correct any mistakes we made. @OptOut I look forward to your feedback so we can learn from it NES: No Rev-A & Circle Rev-A https://minusworlds.com/knowledgecenterdetails?bid=41&cid=2

We had 18 sales in first 12 hours. We continue to have multiple sales today which is great being a holiday weekend and less than a week old. A few of the buyers have reported received their games and really liked the experience so far. There is no feedback system because we are ensuring the quality and experience for the buyer. This is why the game is shipped to us, we provide a service to ensure the customer is getting a great experience. Also why we have standard for photos. We are trying to make a process that is best for the seller and buyer. We hope to continue to improve the process to have this vision prove out in what we know to be the best for everyone. -Dan

This bug is active but being worked on, we fixed a few bugs with "sold" listings that have affected this function. You can see sold listings on the home page in two spots in mean time. We have created a bug that many of the sales in the first 3 days were not being attributed but now can see them and their sales data price points

Unfortunately we disagree. That is okay, I disagree with the best of my friends. We do not play gate keepers and are working to display our guidelines Monday via pdf so it is more clear on our standards for our sellers photos and the process. Due to great feedback we are also adding "The Process" tab on top left of home page this week to do a better job explaining the site and the process. Thank you for your feedback and take care, Dan

To state what you told me, you wanted to list games without taking pictures. We believe the buyers have the right to see the item they purchase. If that is a deal breaker for you we understand and wish you the best.

The situation was a one off. As stated you are welcome to list with Minus Worlds if you want to follow our standards. We are posting guidelines Monday I want to be clear that I (not Tom) am working to release sales data on Minus Worlds. We (minus worlds) will not be adding the service of dissecting the data but merely displaying it. Currently I am trying to work with the auction houses to bring the 4 main auction houses data with the data of ebay to have a search function of sales data. We will represent Wata, VGA and CgC data points. We will not be disecting the data nor commenting on what it represents but just laying it out there in a digestible format for people to research and come to their own conclusions. Your way may be better, and support you and others who provide any service or content in video games. Being a marketplace I am very cautious of how we represent data and want to really have a neutral hub to help buyers and sellers on their collecting journey. Any questions never hesitate. thanks-Dan

Your sources are wrong. I wanted to write the clearly because if you care for truth you would never trust that "source" again. I state "We" a lot because we have employees at Minus Worlds and its a company. Clearly state, Tom has had no role whatsoever in this project besides lending his handle to it.

Let me answer these questions one by one, sorry for multiple posts but a lot of different posts to respond to and will try to go back and condense them to one post. Referring to VGA as an Authenticator is nothing more how I use grading company and Authenticator interchangeably. the Sliding scale was simply to save space. Their grading scale is much easier to represent and saved us from making the filter box too long. search for vga graded: are you typing by title? This is working on my end . If you type VGA or Wata, neither come up because not in title. we have a section for VGA grading company that we worked with VGA to use materials from their site to show their grading scale and break down their label. regarding the number of VGA games, sellers put up their games. If you want to list a hundred VGA games to level it out, I welcome you to We look forward you trying our services in time. If any questions, I am transparent because I can be so ask away. thanks and take care

Seth, let me clearly state this is 100% my own effort. Your anger for Tom is miss placed. There is no conspiracy theory. Happy to chat with you on the phone or post your questions here

Hey Seth, Dan Allegra here. Your anger is miss placed. Tom Curtin was kind enough for me to use his handle when i asked because I thought the name was perfect for this but this project is mine and mine alone. Clearly state I am the sole owner. Since I became more involved in the community aspect of video games 2+ years ago, Tom Curtin has been nothing less than a great friend to me going above and beyond. I feel questioning his values is unjust being I have never experienced anything less than a passionate collector that truly cares about this community.

This was a one off because games that this user listed at 800k and 1.5 billion dollars were blurry and not at a professional manner.

Yes, that has been on bug list for a bit, it drives me nuts when listing a game as well

Ebay does let you go back many years last time I checked with their api. Getting the data is not as hard is organizing it right. The other part is that Ebay really has to be combed to ensure relisted items arent put back up etc. We are working with auction houses etc to do this right. We are doing this as a free service because we feel it is really needed for everyone. We want buyers to be able to make educated decisions and most of us to simply enjoy researching easily. This projects take time to really get processes right so we arent going back and getting stuck on this one project when we can focus on the future. The one good thing is we spent a lot of time making a database of tens of thousands of games already and an identification system that we have as our back bone. You barely see it now but if you go to list a game, when you pick the system, it narrows the games shown to that system and if click on the game- it autofills the game developer and year of release. We still got to clean it up a bit but while seems simple, there is something like 18,000 games in our database. We will get there. While juggling a few major we are working on, it is critical that when we launch one it is right. Does not mean it is perfect but means when we launch we can learn and get it where it needs to go quickly. As many flaws as the MW website had, it performed amazing and many errors already fixes or will be fixed shortly.

I probably should mention that on Instagram my personal handle is d.a.n_64 Some of you we have interreacted previously and you can get a sense of my collecting, podcast, work with artists, etc. Please do continue to post feedback, critiques, etc. I like if you have a contact and direct answer from myself than just assuming the worst. Here for the long haul.

a) Shopify unfortunately does not have marketplace capabilities as well the customization and expansion we can do with investing in building this out right. Having the ability to add any function we can imagine and go any direction was the right move. 2) We do not store credit cards. We use stripe for credit cards currently. Feel free to read our privacy policy. We are not selling data to outside or sharing with third parties. d) Thank you for kind words. Will reach out in time if so and appreciate the offer.

Whoops, I was rambling so I cut myself off

Yes, I like the effort here. My biggest hurdle is really how to format it to keep is digestible. We hope to do something similar but with all auction houses and ebay. The problem with ebay is really has to be manually combed through but we will figure out a way that makes sense. If there is a will, there is a way. I like the charts he did. The date of sales is nice touch. I think how I intend to do it is the seal grades are broken down in the box grades and you can open up the box grade row to see the seal grades. But we will test run a few different formats. Our goal really is really to be a neutral knowledge hub for the community. Our data will not be represented any differently than other data points. We are hoping to have links to each sale so it is helpful and transparent. But I am getting way ahead of myself, I get excited for what I know we will get to in time.

To be honest, we had some issues the first day where the items were not marking "sold" so some games were marked up to avoid double sales. Those sales are legitimate, 9.8 was full price at $5750 and Shinobi 9.2 sold for $2200 I believe. We just fixed a bug that shows the sales, it was not working last 36 hours or so where there were many sales but they are not showing in that section. We will make sure they get represented and accessible asap. Sales Data The reason why there isn't a bigger category for it is that I am working with all the auction houses to bring all sales data onto Minus Worlds. That way users can look at all sales data easily for FREE. This project has been in the works for months and we are a few months out for completion but wanted to mention why we had not done a better shop making sold sales more a category. Also we got to figure out the format better to make the information digestible. The developers are working daily to bring this site to a higher standard, we are not there yet but we will get there. The backend functionality is quite amazing. This is a site literally made from scratch. I am very pleased with the developers, First day the site was bogged down due to 1100 new photos uploaded. The problem we have with images is that I have asked them not to cap the seller's size of images. I do not like anything the inconvenience users from using the site, or having a hurdle. But with that you will notice how it bogs down the home page on loading. We are working to some automation compression techniques and we will get there. Last note, we are expediating the start of creating an App. We originally were going to wait to create it 6-12 months till we started but we will begin that process in the next 6 weeks. It will take 5-6 months but we are starting now to be able to bring a better experience for the mobile.

I am currently playing/enjoying Doom II nightly, surprising how great the Doom series is to play still 25+ years later

What happens if the game (i.e. the WATA or VGA case) gets damaged on it's way to you or the buyer or you or the buyer claim it's not what we shipped? All items are opened under camera surveillance in our office. If we receive game and we ship to buyer, they say its empty- thats our problem and not the seller. We wouldn't even tell the seller the problem, they delivered the game to us and we pay out the seller. If game is damaged we have an insurance policy for such. Also, how would we get paid? 14 days after delivery the payment is cleared for payment, currently we are mailing checks on that Friday (with tracking.) We will have an ach type payment within 4-8 weeks but we are swamped and want to take time to pick the best method for our sellers. Can you also describe exactly how you would be packing the package to the buyer (if you are repackaging it)? We re-package the game for the buyer. I see each opportunity to satisfy the buyer as extremely important, I know getting games myself is like opening a Christmas gift. Sucks when is smells like smoke or re-used trash to package. We have created custom end caps and boxes specifically for graded games. This is also double boxed. I posted a video of our custom boxes on Facebook groups. I believe High End and Wata games group. I think you mentioned your facilities will be under video surveillance when you open the package. Will the video of opening up the package be available to the seller? I think this will alleviate a lot of concerns that I and perhaps other potential sellers have if you send us a copy of the video (of our own games ofc). While we like the be as open and transparent as possible, having constant videos uploaded for orders with no problems reported would not be productive for our time or bandwidth. Can I just use my ebay feedback or do you need one of your buddies in those FB groups to act as a reference? I literally have hundreds as a seller with zero neutrals and zero negatives You can apply and we will look at this at a case by case basis. More references the better. Once you apply to be seller, we send an application and we review the applications daily. We try to be as accommodating as possible. In total I hope this answers some of your questions. If you are very concerned with the site, I will be the first person to say wait till comfortable. We are here for the long haul and will look to prove our intention of being an amazing platform for buyers and sellers to transact for years to come. Thank you and hope you have a great Thanksgiving as well. Take care