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
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