Jim Jimmer

Id argue the vga95 mario 64 is still criminally « undervalued » especially when comparing to the 9.8 A++. other than that pretty strong all across yes!

Yes it has been graded 9.6 A+ and will likely be the front page if the catalogue. I dont know the story to it but i know there was a lot of sealed ps1 longboxes sent to HA raw and were subsequently graded (re1 being one of them). will be an interesting auction thats for sure.

Wouldnt let me upload 2 pics..

Hi, I own a copy identical yo tour LTTP. it was indeed given to employees and resealed by nintendo. wata will grade it and mention its a first party reseal. Very nice piece. Here’s mine for reference. it has the same shrinkwrap with the large venthole in the back

That VGA copy needs more promotion as the only thing everyone is talking about at the moment is Wata lots of action early and towards the end as other pointed out. The 30min rule prevents snipers so that people that bid on an item can bid in the 30min extension. I guess you can see budding wats at that time but id assume that rule is there to keep people « honest » so that you dont end up trying to snipe dozens of items at the same time, for potentially hours

1000 9.8 sm64? Are you out of your mind? Game has been out for 25years this month and so far there are 3. Three! unless you mean players choice? Maybe there are pallets of those in a warehouse somewhere. but the thing people forget with popular games is that most were ripped open to play. My general rule of thumb for n64 is that if a game had a players choice release its because most red labels copies were sold and they stopped that print and filled the store shelves with PCs. im not saying that there arent more mint sm64 laying around, but claiming 1000 is far fetched, especially in 9.8 …. heck even SMB3, one of the most common sealed game doesnr even have close to that graded total. Ive heard of 2 9.8 A++. Not tens or hundreds. Its a hard grade to get (so are vga 95s). and to your point about 3 showing up in a short time frame, it is to be expected when the sale figure reaches such a high amount. The real question is what hap’ens after these 2? 2 more? And then likely crickets for a while. It took 2 years for HA to auction a 9.4 and 2.5 years to auction a 9.8 . It would have been a big $ game way before last signature (admittedly not remotely close to the 1.56M figure obviously). Yet they didnt show up.

I think it’s fair to assume that the person who consigned one of those mario 64 first is pretty pissed off that another showed up. however they should be taken for what they are: 2 mint games graded by different companies. Both are likely the highest grade anyone can hope to put in their collection. The 95+ is unlikely to go anywhere for a very long time so 95 is the highest that will be available period. Just like the 9.8 A++ is likely to be the highest available. A lot of people think vga95 is a better grade (and i an in that camp) but some people won’t touch vga and some won’t touch Wata. The results will speak for themselves but it seems like its the first time a « high end » VGA game will hit public auction since Heritage started offering games. The end result will be highly influenced by the marketing/education of goldin to the new investor/speculator crowd that VGA is as viable as wata for graded games. From what we’ve seen so far the wata is definitely getting a preferential treatment, which is too bad but understandable given July’s sale. It is still early and i’m sure Goldin will promote both. Ultimately it will be beneficial to everyone if they BOTH do well. As someone pointed out if only Wata does well then people will cry foul/manipulation/scam etc. if they both do well then it will be good for VGA obviously, but especially for goldin since they will be auctionning a LOT of vga games in the future. This would help increase excitement for consigning vga games and will allow them to offer games that have never been offered at HA because wata doesnt grade certain consoles. So yeah we will see but this is definitely a very, very interesting showdown.

How so? I haven't seen anywhere that they’re in trouble. getting bad press yes, but that likely wont impact either company.

Hello, im from canada and have shipped numerous high $ packages to the us. That includes wata vga ha and private collectors. 1- i use canada post xpresspost. Never had an issue. Sometimes people will request another carrier which is fine, but its at their own risk. 2- you cant insure it. It will raise a LOT of suspicions at customs if you insure for 100k for example. i know in the us there are 3rd party insurers that insure for damage done during transit. You can thus have a low declared value for customs and get it correctly insured by the third party. Perhaps you could have a friend kn the US help you out with that. 3-hard to say but id guess you’d be close to the high end lf the 100k range. Its a nice copy even if not perfect! 4-i would only war’zone this with 100k value. 5- talk to HA and secure a deal of AT LEAST 0% seller fee if you consign. Try to get somE bp back too given the game in question. they will grade it for you and you will pay for it using the proceeds of the sale. This is nice as its no out of pocket costs for you! 6-not sure i understand the question? I mean, id wish to know if you 100% intend to sell it. Perhaps you could trade it if youre after another grail etc. If you want to keep then id prefer in a vga case as they look better for n64 than wata. feel free to pm me if you have more questions/wanna discuss further. Congrats on this nice game!

Things have been quiet lately. Here’s my latest mail call!

Thanks for the update.

Yep me too. And this is much, much more of a concern for me than waiting a month or two extra to get an order back. With a grading company clients expect to receive their game in the same condition it was sent in, but in a slab. Nothing less. This kind of incident is the kind that shys customers away and they dont come back (justifiably so).

Im bored tonight so i snagged a few pics!