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Are you saying like:

in Street Fighter 2 when you up the difficulty the computer fighters actually skip animation frames when executing attacks, so they are straight up cheating to win.

Or...

Mario Party 3 (specifically, though I'm sure the rest are bad in their own ways) the CPU lands on hidden stars and shit at an alarming rate to gain a seemingly ridiculous unfair advantage. 

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While this isn't directly related to my continued SNES game hunt, I finally have a game room that I'm comfortable in and am satisfied with (aside from some small changes).

All console connections are hooked up to one of the TVs and ready to go, and the consoles are in the drawers w/ controllers. I just need to run the cables under the desk and I already have an organized way of doing that which should look clean in the end. There's a slide-out surface (not the black coffee table) under the center desk that's perfect for whatever consoles are in use.

Also,  I have way more SNES that are in drawers that will eventually be put in rows on individual shelves.

The color of the LED lights lining the cieling can be changed, I just picked my favorite color for the first few pics.

23 minutes ago, Armageddon Potato said:

This kind of scenario happens somewhat often to me, and a lot of times it's just someone who google searched your item and came to see it and wanted to purchase it without thinking too much about it. Just ship it with tracking+insurance and you won't get scammed. If you need help PM me, I get a few scammers online per day minimum, but I know how to handle them easily.

Everything worked out well. Buyer got on his regular account and paid and item's been shipped and arrived at destination. 

I was skeptical in the beginning but I always struggle giving odd situations the benefit of the doubt. I was off-base here, I guess, and I'm glad I was!

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Interesting update:

Yeah, so I messaged the buyer and they actually messaged me back. They said it was a secondary account that ebay created for them for using a different login (or something along those lines?)

Anyways, I cancelled the transaction and they said they'd rebuy under their actual account.

I wasn't sure they would, but after relisting, sure enough, they purchased it again under their main account that had a ton of solid feedback. Same address, name, etc.

So, I feel bad for being skeptical,  but the buyer was very understanding in the messages.

Needless to say, not the outcome I expected at all.

23 minutes ago, kazuo said:

Technically you could just not ship it and take the hit to your seller account. eBay's pretty strict these days, so I don't recommend it if you like to sell on eBay.

Did you Google their address? It's possible it's someone from overseas, using a proxy service. You can usually suss this out from a Google search of the location, or even an oddly-formatted address (e.g. it has some weird box number). If so, just ship it. If they try to scam you, using proxies violates policy and they don't qualify for buyer protection. You win any case they may try to open.

Do you have any other reason to think it is suspicious?

I googled the address and it's a suite in Manhattan that sells for a couple milli. There's a phone number from the same area attached to the account.

I messaged the buyer and I feel like a lack of response will give me more info. But, yeah, 0 feedback and account created yesterday seems odd to me.

7 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

If it says paid and they have provided an address that you ship to I’d say mail it. As long as it gets to its destination and shows as delivered with the tracking number you are safe. If they try to pull something after it’s delivered eBay will probably just look at how new their account is and dismiss it as long as you have adequate feedback as a seller. If it’s a really high priced item throw insurance on it and require a signature for delivery. 

It's not insanely high priced. Just over a thousand. I've encountered an issue in the past where something got delivered and the receiver said it was broken in packaging,  etc etc even though I know I mailed it off well protected.

They wanted partial refund and i didn't want to go through the rigmarole of Ebay's dispute process, so I gave a partial. I just don't want to walk into a similar situation. 

I have had an item for sale on ebay for a month or so, and it's probably overpriced by a hundred or two, so I have a "best offer" available.

Anyways, someone paid outright for it without making an offer. Also they have zero feedback. Also they made their account yesterday.

It says they paid, but I'm really leery about sending this thing off. I'm thinking something is going to "go wrong" with the transaction on their end.

Surely there are many ways they could be trying to pull one over on me.

What recourse do I have here?

Edit: I mean I guess I can just cancel it, but has anyone experienced this before? Surely.

29 minutes ago, captmorgandrinker said:

You guys realize he's in his late 20s or early thirties by

He'll always be a child in my eyes

13 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

Yup RICO was passed in the 1970. It’s interesting because any group that convenes to commit crime meets the definition of an enterprise for RICO via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle_v._United_States so if you could prove that the entire relationship between WATA and HA was created to defraud people well there you go. Someone would have to leave an idiotic amount of dialogue somewhere for that to happen or someone gets somebody very important to flip on the others 

Pretty sure Deniz would flip like a pancake. Time to put the pressure on the kid.

Find it unlikely that WATA survives this.  Even if the RICO doesn't hold up, the class action will sting, and barring that failing, their reputation might be beyond repair.

Idk what kind of rebrand can save them now.

Looks like I'll have to try out CGC

I'm just glad most of the graded games I have are for my personal collection, and I believe I can say I've never purchased a graded game before.

$2 a piece at the local thrift shop!

People drop off donations to the local church here in town, and I know someone who works there that sends me pics of video games whenever they float in.

They were there when these were being priced, sent me some pics, and of course I said, "I'll take them all!"

And yes, I gave them more than $8 for their heads-up work.

Best score I've had in years for the price