ExplodedHamster

100% re-seal. Still pretty cool, great game!

Great seller, would highly recommend. Thanks man!!

They are going to have a Signature Series at some point, where they use a service to verify and then give these different labels. I’d wait on that.

There’s not much evidence suggesting it can pass via mail, especially mail that takes a few or more days handling. My personal experience and social media suggests lots of people are getting shipments back. Collectibles, including high end games, appear to be skyrocketing during these times as there’s plenty of money out there, people are bored, and the stock market stinks atm. They’d be wise to keep pumping stuff out, demand appears to be at an all-time high.

It's possible a crack could appear without damage to the VGA case, if it wasn't packaged well, but no way that rip occurred because of shipping.

Sure would be. It's this guy. I bought an 85+ Simpsons that had a massive crease all along the bottom and crossed over to a WATA 7.5. Last year, he had a Mario 2 round seal VGA with no h-seam on the back! Check this one out. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bases-Loaded-II-Nintendo-NES-Brand-New-H-Seam-Sealed-VGA-Graded-Silver-85/372880910270?epid=5690&hash=item56d16f27be:g:KxQAAOSwYJ9eHzxN Would VGA really grade this an 85? Again, 100% feedback, and I'm not comfortable saying it's definitely happening, but I have my suspicions. Either that, or VGA really effed up a few times. A Mario 2 without an H seam?? This user has also changed his name numerous times now...Actually, looks like a brand new account.

Is it the dude from Maryland, by chance? I strongly suspect there's some guy in Maryland I've bought from who is swapping out games. He lists a ton of VGA stuff on Ebay.

What happens when you rub his nipples?

False alarm! Phew, thought GVN was done for sure, at least.

Yup, phew. PC looks to be good. GVN, I’d guess less good news.

I would guess the idea was always to buy both, but that’s a pure guess.

There was an attempt to buy PC and PC said no. Whether GVN attempted harder recently, I dunno...

Well GVN clearly is. So either it’s a coincidence and PC happens to be down, or they bought PC, too.

They’re both down, GVN won’t even load and says the server doesn’t exist. The same guy who bought NA bought GVN, so looks like we might have a pattern here? Was PC purchased, as well?

GRRRRRRRR

Aha, ok, thanks all! Well, there will be no new games soon anyway

Hmmm, recent sales still show up for me on GVN. What’s not being updated?

The 450 sale on Brady was the auto limited 100 run, the one you cite is the regular auto. Hence the difference. Wonder what a Brady 12/100 auto in 9 or better would sell for. A million? Also, population 14 PSA 10 for an elite modern card is extremely low. The best comp is probably Jeter, pop 12 PSA 10 on his SP foil, and that’s gone from 50k in 2017 to 180k last year, leading up to his HoF induction coming this year. Brady’s a bigger name for sure. Seven or so from now when he enters the HoF? Who knows. Regardless, for me, anything that moves grays closer to golds is a good thing, especially on the higher end grays. They are seeped in so much more history. There is definitely more going on behind the scenes with them now, as well, especially after this trade (which was a legitimate one for one swap, yes). I’d say that 7.0 up is probably one of the top 10 or so nicest known copies. It will be interesting to see how that one ends. What will also be interesting is where the dozens of 5.5s will settle. How big will the gap be between high grade (I’d say 7.0 or above) and lower grade copies. As for the highest, there is a 9.0. Given the harshness of the WATA scale on these, that’s mint as hell.

It was likely designed to lead to such results, so probably quite predicable. That notwithstanding, operations have been moving faster. Still not hitting some deadlines, but significantly faster than before. Hopefully the improvement continues.

They have probably put like .25% of their time into promotion, unless you count the conventions. It doesn't take a lot of time to answer a call and some questions for an interviewer, and most of the time it's been sellers initiating it anyway. There are plenty of things to criticize legitimately, but the promotion thing is way overblown. Especially since promotion is a good thing anyway.

Well, now I know who nabbed that! Nice score, that was a deal and a half!

I'm working on Shining Force, hope to have some damned time to get the rest of the way through it in the coming few weeks or month. Been shifting the save file back and forth between my computer and an Everdrive.

Depends for me. If it’s a cool original KayBee or Mars sticker, I leave it on, but if it’s an orange 9.99 bargain bin sticker, I take if off.

When this item sold for 100k in February, a mint oval seal SMB would sell for $1000. One just sold for 20k this weekend. I’m not saying the Mario gloss is worth 2 million, but the market generally is wayyyyyyy beyond where it was when this sold. And 1Upped is obviously legit, so if a lower grade 4th edition is going for a 75k offer, it’s very easy to see 250k or higher offers for this highest graded early copy known to exist. Another thing to consider...do we know for a fact that the 100k bought 100% equity in the game? For all we know, the seller retained 25% equity and the valuation was 133k or something.

Not sure, but if he is, you think investors can’t use the products they invest in? As long as WATA isn’t cooking grades, it’s fine. And I do know for a fact because I know the person who offered it. I find it funny people STILL question this given current prices. People decried the 75k on Megaman for weeks and said it was worth well below that. How’d that work out? It seems a lot of people here simply have not followed the market this year. Go look at this past week’s auctions. A Bandai Golf just sold for four figures, for God’s sake.