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The whole thread smells "stinky" because you want a frontal picture and phone number? Kidding aside, I said the reason to not want to put name to the one starting a conversation. If that detours the conversation because I raise questions of a Wata employee coming to market several hundred Wata games less than 3 months after working there, thats your perspective. I prefer Wata over VGA. I think Wata is a great company with great leadership. My motive to post this was meant to see if I saw this incorrectly and get other perspectives. If you have any perspective or aspects of value I would love to hear your 2 cents

my other account has been stale for some time but will make sure to contact you to clear that up, thank you. I thought the questions would be a good conversation for this group on video game collectors and good knowledge for all. I am confused about what pre-conceived notion B.A. is eluding to, please do clear that up. Wata is a great company that is doing great things in my opinion for video game collection. I think they grade games fairly as all evidence has shown in my eyes. But the question is, should employees be able to purchase games for resell while working at a grading company? Should an employee of a grading company be able to get an item graded from his former employer within 12-18 months of working there? This does not have to be specific to WATA, I ask the same question for VGA. I would say the same for CGC comics, CBCS, and ... naw PGX should not be in the same sentence.

I started the conversation under an alias due to concern of backlash from Wata. I would guess I am not the only person who does not feel comfortable saying anything that can be contrived as negative about the company that handles your most prized possessions. Like I said in first post " I am actually very pro Wata and think Deniz and Mark have set-up and built a great company and why this topic had to be addressed. " You can not improve if you do not see the flaws in your ways. This was a way to address a concern so going forward an issue like a dealer working at the company and buying up many hundreds of games, getting them graded by wata, and reselling them would not happen going forward.

It is surely possible he bought hundreds of games while working there than got them graded during the 8 weeks he said he is giving as a grace period between working at Wata and starting a video game resell company. Would make sense why Wata is so backed up Wata should decline to grade the, They should not grade an ex-employees games for 18 months- no question a conflict of interest

I am sure a company like Heritage that sells hundreds of millions in assets would not be pleased if this is true. Isn't one of the co-founders on the board of Wata?

I want to clarify that I do not think having dealers as graders is a problem. No third party grading company can evade all conflicts of interests and I do think Deniz does a great job himself of separating himself from those conflicts. I think letting employees get games graded and allowing them to selling video games within 18 months of working there is the two main issues

Do not worry, this is not a bitching and moaning about dealers or inflated prices, I am pro-market and long term collector of video games. I am actually very pro Wata and think Deniz and Mark have set-up and built a great company and why this topic had to be addressed. Recently comic book dealer Rob at RedHood Comics worked at Wata for 6+ months. After leaving in August, he converts to RedHood Games and says in a few weeks he is opening his new game dealer store of hundreds of Wata games. One at minimum could assume he purchased hundreds of games to sell while working at Wata. The two main questions I have is: 1) If employees can access population reports the public can not, is this not an unfair advantage? If only 1 9.8 of Golden Eye has been graded by wata, that information is crucial to all buyers, collectors, and dealers. To me it would be like an employee of the SEC buying stock of companies and be allowed to sell their stocks 8 weeks after. 2) Wata as far as I know is less than 10 employees, wouldn't an Employee getting games graded by his or her co-workers be a conflict of interest? 3) Should employees be able to sell games after 1 year of working at Wata? 8 weeks is the turn around for 1 game in the Turbo scale. This is in no way against the Wata team or even Rob, but I know if I was wondering these questions- I am sure others would have interesting views on the topic. I ask these questions so Wata can learn from their possible mistakes and grow stronger "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."