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Thank you for proving my point in a quality summary fashion. Anyone talking about DD while not referring to bra size is a bona fide WSB autist.

I like that this thread is on page 46 and yet not one of you that has commented has any idea how to interpret a corporate balance sheet in order to calculate a valuation for a company. Instead you just regurgitate things you saw in a meme on WSB on Reddit. Stonkz!

150 pages, and we can’t yet agree that everyone associated with WATA are assholes?

I find it impossible to take seriously anything a guy that wears tank tops says or does.

I’m right there with you. FOMO has now flipped to fear of missing cashing out.

I think that at this point if you’re a WATA or HA defender, you should have a CAT scan done on your head immediately to find out what mentally debilitating brain injury you have.

I’m going to assume that by “investor types”, you mean bidders with an ownership stake in Heritage Auctions and/or WATA. In that case, I agree with you 100%.

It’s happening! Metal Jesus made a video of little substance about it! Wooooooooooo!

Show me an actual buyer. I’m not interested in the multitude of probable scammers that are making offers. Show me someone that has paid actual money and doesn’t have a corporate interest in driving up the prices of sealed video games.

We’re nearing page 100 I see. Has a single buyer of a 6 figure game (better yet, a $500k+ game) been located yet that isn’t affiliated with a video game grading, auction house, or fractional share company? Until such people appear from the rock they’re apparently all hiding under, I’ll continue to perceive the explosion in sealed video game prices as 90% scumbaggery and 10% naivety.

The easiest and cleanest way for it to be proved that the explosion of values of sealed video games isn’t 100% caused by the market manipulation of grading companies, auction houses, and/or fractional share companies would be for buyers of the 6 figure games to reveal themselves and not be affiliated with a grading company, auction house, and/or fractional share company. That would prove that there is actual demand at these prices. I honestly have never believed anyone without a corporate agenda has bought any of these high priced sealed games.

Thanks a lot! This is exactly the info I was hoping for.

Is there an easy way to spot the foil versions of Zelda Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons from pictures? I’m looking to buy a complete copy of each game, but when I look at listings online I can’t seem to tell whether or not I’m looking at a foil version.

That is a nicely diversified portfolio.

Found one

I would like a show of hands. How many of you that are up in arms about the prices paid for some sealed video games own meme stocks and/or cryptocurrency and don’t recognize the irony?

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It looks like someone rolled a pizza cutter with fine teeth across it. Unless it travelled through a black hole into a new universe while on its way to WATA, I’m 100% confident it wasn’t damaged during my shipping. WATA’s awful return packaging is another story. The shipping box they used was thinner than a typical shoe box. I realize arguing with a WATA fan is like trying to convince a MAGA fan that Trump lost the election, but here I am.

I think you’re out of your mind of you think an NES game packed as game-plastic box protector-bubble wrap-box-bubble wrap-outer box got damaged all the way across the front of box when I mailed it.

To clarify, the NES game box I got back ungraded from WATA is for sure the same game box I sent them, it just now has extra damage to the box. I figure either WATA accidentally damaged it due to them rushing through orders to try to catch up, or it was damaged during return shipping due to WATA’s shoddy packaging used for return shipping. Either way, I’ll never do business with them again.

Funny you mention this because I received a CIB NES game back from WATA last week after they sent me a strange email saying they couldn’t authenticate the manual and offered to grade only the box and cart. I told them to mail it back to me ungraded. When I received it, it now has a seemingly fresh indentation line across the front of the box that has a pattern to it - almost like you’d expect to see if a cookie dough roller cutter was run across the box. I mailed the game within a plastic box protector and packed it very well (bubble wrap, double boxed). WATA mailed it back to me without the box protector, with the game within one of their typical plastic zip lock bags, and then wrapped in 2 thin layers of bubble wrap. They also used the seemingly thinnest shipping box they could find. This was my first and for sure last time using WATA. On top of the game box damage, they’ve now twice dodged my emailed question of whether or not they plan to refund me their grading fee, replying to my emails with no actual answer regarding a refund.

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This is my cat, Gizmo. Every day, Gizmo inspects the mail when I bring it into the house. In this picture, he’s inspecting a couple envelopes that contained NES posters.

Depending on how you measure either a 1st print CIB Zelda NES with “cassette” manual I paid $50 for that would grade as 8.0 or 8.5 overall, or a PS3 sealed 3D Dot Game Heroes I paid $1 shipped when a retailer was clearing them out.

I would rather buy a pile of sealed 4.0 Wata graded Intellivision games from Heritage Auctions than invest a penny into crypto.