Bronty
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Yes, that’s already clear. Still makes no sense value wise IMO (eg a 9.2c+ will outperform a 9.2 NS on the market) . But, if you enjoy it and don’t mind, why not
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Makes no sense, I agree. Value wise anyways. If you don’t care then go for it
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just search on wata once you bring up HA Doner. That'll bring them all up. Once you get used to the site you will see that its well designed
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41 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:
Read the NYT comments for some negativity buddy
thx for pointing me to them. That part I'm not suprised about!
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I’m surprised that the thoughts on it are generally positive. I didn’t care for the fact that it seemed to reduce the hobby to speculation and nothing else. Certainly there’s that element and a discussion of that is fine, but the fact that people love the material in the first place is why those conditions can exist and there was next to no discussion of that.
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Yeah It’s a big range because they have completely different grading criteria
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1 hour ago, GPX said:
From a casual observer, it seems in the past 12 months, WATA has been more interested in price hikes, price pumps, Pawn Stars, than what they are advertising their services ie. to grade the games!
They are one and the same.
If wata graded games sell for big money, IMO that's the best advertisement of their services they could have because ultimately sellers will use whatever service they think will get them the best price.
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Edited for clarification of facts.
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Edited for clarification of facts.
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On 1/4/2020 at 2:51 AM, Link said:
Looks like he has now removed the sticker. Why would he do that? That seems strange.
Edited for clarification of facts.
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On 12/21/2019 at 10:09 AM, DoctorEncore said:
Unfortunately, "sticker seal" is jut the standard way a lot of the Canadian games were shipped towards the end of the console cycle.
87-92 in Canada on first party titles.
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Hard to tell, but seller definitely looks like someone that could be asked and get a decent answer. Good lead.
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thx. Comics from that era are mostly worthless but have great game ads all over the place. He's taking $1 comics, cutting them up and framing single pages in $10 frames, and trying to sell the package for $35.
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most of them look like glossy poster paper because they are likely inside front cover ads, or back cover ads, or inside back cover ads (since all of those, along with the front cover, are printed on a single double sided sheet of paper which is then folded. One sheet, four pages.
This one, he got a little lazy or thought the 007 connection was good, and he took an inside page, note the newsprint paper
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anyone reading comics from the early 80s saw this ad a million times. Note the height relative to the width fits with a comic page.
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On 12/16/2019 at 9:30 AM, DoctorEncore said:
Updated with another Dragon Warrior related item. This time a poster think I remember someone requesting before NA closed down.
I don't think the poster is legit either. Many of the items he's selling are clearly pages cut out from comic books; I recall some of those comic ads vividly, can see they are on newsprint, and he sells comics too.
Note this: " framed and matted, final size 11x14". "
The implication is that the paper inside is smaller, say the size of a comic book page.
I suspect this DW2 poster is just a inside front or back cover of a comic with the ad cut out. The dimensions do not suggest a 'poster' size item.
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On 12/24/2019 at 6:25 PM, RH said:
I’m a simple man. The original art for the sword used on most of the American Final Fantasy games. I assume it was painted on a cel because it is the exact same sword art on Final Fantasy Adventure, Legends II & III, Final Fantasy II & III. I’d give up my entire collection and start over for that one item.
Would likely have been painted on illustration board and then printed onto a cel later. Nice choice!
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Well we are talking sealed here so labels wires etc etc all don’t matter?
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2 hours ago, DefaultGen said:
Population reports are only so useful anyway. If you have a 9/9/9.5/9.5 Black Lotus you could crack it and resubmit it a dozen times fishing for the 9.5 jackpot. When the price difference is $1,000s for that .5 bump, I have no doubt there are many resubbed cards on population reports. Video games will probably be worse over time because of all the upgrade potential, either to complete CIB games or upgrade mediocre components.
Got my first one the other day
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The short answer is what you remember as being a perfect job would not hold up today.
Reseals with the line are nothing new, i first saw those over 15 years ago. At a glance or in crappy pics they look perfect. But they don’t hold up to close inspection.
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The way I’d put it is that the sealed whole has a floor value equal to the inherent CIB parts on a like for like basis.
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1 hour ago, Shmup said:
I enjoy comics and have some sets that I like (mainly Alan Moore's stuff) but I also don't see the big parallels between video game collecting and comics. It feels a bit forced to me and more like a selling technique to get comic collectors onboard.
At the end of the day I hope video game collecting makes its own path in the collecting world and doesn't turn into comic collecting.
It definitely needs to walk its own path I agree.
Understand though that the parallels being drawn are not between the active part of the hobbies themselves (reading, playing). The parallels being drawn are from the perspective of demographics impacting value. (Many 12 year old readers turned into many 50 year old collectors turned into items worth $$$ - and many 12 yr old game players resulting in adult collectors resulting in $$$).
Would you rather have a C seal or NS(no seal)?
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Or are cib collectors wanting to remove wrap to justify to themselves that there is no difference?
if one “doesn’t care” about shrink wrap, one doesn’t need to remove it either.