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1 hour ago, CodysGameRoom said:

You came back 5 hours later with a gif

Honestly fair

But mail day recently from certified and eBay (Metroid is the only eBay game).

games r fun

everyone's grail is subjective. if it's a game i actually want to keep, then i won't sell. but if it has value and i can make a few bucks from it, i'll resell for FMV to fund my collecting/long-term saving.

On 8/5/2023 at 10:59 PM, GPX said:

Another possible reason why we’re seeing more 10s is due to collectors having better eye and better understanding on what to send for grading. I can imagine in the first year or so, people new to the scene would be sending random sealed stuff just to trial the process and to see if they would continue with graded games. 

I would have the opposite impression actually. I figure the nicest stuff would get sent in at the beginning, but then that rate of high grades stays at a constant rate as people learn the grade scale over the years.

13 hours ago, Gloves said:

Mine's a lowly Sunsoft copy. T_T

wow do you even collect bro

jk obviously

8 hours ago, CIB_Wholesale said:

you would have to consider resubs affect the pop report.  my guess 30-50%. so sm64 is something like 1.5 copies

11 hours ago, Code Monkey said:

Sure..........that's the definition of peak. If they didn't decrease in value, it wouldn't have been a peak.

People here don't seem to realise why the values rose. Sure it had some to do with Covid but the real reason is the extra disposable income that arose from the Bitcoin halving. I've said this before, every 4 years Bitcoin goes through a halving process which causes miners to receive half of the amount of Bitcoin they did for the previous 4 years. This causes a scramble to purchase it and cryptocurrency explodes from all the purchasing, it happened in 2016, 2020 and it will happen again in 2024. Each time the halving occurred, Bitcoin jumped by a multiplier of about 2.5 which means next year when Bitcoin halves and makes another run, video game prices will once again explode and you'll see another 2 million dollar Mario game sale.

If you want to guarantee a triple on your investment, put everything you can into Bitcoin for the next 1-2 years.

I knew it. Bitcoin manipulated the games market and committed laundry.

2 hours ago, Code Monkey said:

What's the benefit of opening it?

if it's not in a slab then it has the opportunity to appeal to a buyer willing to bid higher thinking it'll grade high enough to justify whatever price they pay.

kind of deceiving tbh. no offense to jonas. if its true value is that high then whatever it sold for on HA doesn't matter. lol

Relevant video

Hey all. Figured I'd share some interesting data on the new pops.

This is where I've compiled all the data. For each console, you need to scroll down to the bottom-most content to see June data. Sorry it's annoying, I'm not an spreadsheet expert. lol

• Between December 2022 and March 2023, roughly 3000 new games were added to the pop. Then between March and June this year, over 5000 games were added (not including Switch, PS3, and DS).
• Sharp increase in new 10s over the last few months.
  • For comparison, there were only an additional 10 examples of 10 A++ assigned between Dec. 2022 and March 2023 (from 34 up to 44).
  • There's now been a 2x increase (from 44 to 103), excluding new platforms, between March and June.
  • More 10s have now been added than the entirety of previous 10s in given in Wata's history.
• There's now 349 total 10s on the pop if you include Switch, DS, and PS3.
• A++s saw a sharp increase too.
  • Between December 2022 and March 2023, only 212 A++s were added.
  • Now between March and June, an additional 1062 were added - a 5x increase.
• Of the new platforms added, Switch has an enormous population of 9.8 A+ and higher grades. Not surprising - it's the current generation and dealers were/are submitting sealed factory cases of new games.

Anything interesting you see? Please share. I always enjoy seeing trends in this data.

im just gonna post the new data in a separate thread. lol

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New buy. Preordered some months ago and happy to see fangamer made the switch copies fully sealed in cardboard.

Fangamer killed it with this one. Beautiful packaging. Got a couple so I could open one.

From watas black box article:

On 7/17/2023 at 10:45 AM, CIB_Wholesale said:

there are a lot of different codes on the back that can be present or missing in these 2 spots

 

In this case I believe the no code refers to the top left of this back photo. It would say “NES P SC” if the code were there.

I have a hard time naming just one. But this one was a massive win recently

Very happy to own my favorite Pokémon game in mint. New buy.

 The whole fam together:

Yeah this wouldn't surprise me at all (I haven't seen data, but I'm sure someone has analyzed it). I've also definitely found myself responding to a video by thinking, "Oh I should have bought this game already. Let me check it out."