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Legitimately my favorite movie of all time. As a kid it was just cool. As an adult, there's a layered complexity, humanity and soul that rewards anyone who took the chance watching a movie called RoboCop.

Massachusetts already passed a law three years ago for the same thing, $600 in sales and because of it, Paypal has been sending 1099's to the state and the state to the fed. As other have mentioned, it's infuriating to sell collectables now because I don't have records of what I paid for something 15 years ago, so there's no adequate deduction. It's also hard t calculate certain items in general. Say I sold a graded card. Cost of grading is easy, costs taken from eBay and or Paypal fine, but the card itself was cracked from a box. How to you declare that, the cost of the box, the cost of the box divided by cards? The average raw price online? Any accountant would be like, this is stupid. And you're that accountant. On the flip side, it's a theraputic exercise in analyzing how much you spend, how much profit you actually make, and what is and is not worth your time to invest in, collectable wise. TLDR: Whoever said start ion Jan, they're right.

This thread has aged adorably, people being so skeptical about games reaching 1 mil. It is still hyper sketch Wata being called on Pawn Stars to evaluate their own game they owned, haha. We were all so innocent before Covid and the great stonk and crypto boom.

Cant believe what an epic implosion this was, the hard push for us to make history with Goldin auctioning games, just for him to vanish into air, their ugly site not mentioning or having even a line about selling games or VHS. What happens to the poor fools who consigned to this cluster?

I feel to gen x he is most famous for his Ronco Rotisserie. Just "set it and forget it." It's interesting seeing some of these 20 year old informercials now. So many things you would never say like "so easy, even my wife can do it." Yikes. Def a great inventor.

It's material shortages. They are getting their cases out of country and there are massive disruptions in supply chains. They need to invest into an internal facility or manufacturer, and even then, may be overrun (see VGA). I can almost assure the backup is not due to an overabundance of QA, haha.

I dont agree with this at all, not for MtG cards. PSA is probably fine for Pokemon, but MtG collectors want the subgrades. Also a lot of us are uncomfortable that PSA doesn't use sleeves inside their cases. CGC was attractive because they were cheaper, faster, established and had subs. The drawback was thir blue label looks like complete crap on the majority of MtG cards. But very many have been disappointed by the harsh grading and lower resale, so they stick with Beckett.

I know many of the MtG graders are pissed at how redic CGCs grading is. Orders of 140+ getting only 2 9.5 etc.

This sale is incredible and great because it moves the goal forward, past black box and other "blue chips" investors say will hold all the value and there's no point in grading "newer" games. Grails are generational. The kid having the time of their life on Fortnite as I type this has just as much a likelihood dropping a fortune on a first print Xbox 360 than an archaic NES or SNES, and thus lay the grandness that is this robust and diverse hobby. Condition absolutely had a role in this sale, and again works its favor towards newer games as well.

OG Xbox is def a cool system to collect for, from one of the best gens in gaming, before everything was piecemeal microtransactions. PD Orta is a top 10 fav game to this day.

I barely understood your sentence. No, I don't work for Wata. I wasn't suggesting an upgrade, I was suggesting what you need to do as of July 2021 to get fast, hassle free Wata grading.

Now look up the corporate address on the main page. Wanna venture a guess why that addy is different and an office park? Surely some questions begin to form, questions IGS blocks you from asking.

Why I dont collect graded hardware despite loving so many consoles, they are destined to degrade without use. Case in point, I decided to setup a 3D gaming setup in my finished attic for PS3. Had the console, games, bought the official Sony PS 3D Display, all I needed were the 3D glasses, and there was the kick in the ball. Sony used Active 3D shutter glasses, and all official Sony 3D glasses have built in batteries that cannot be replaced and balloon and destroy them selves if not charged for years. These came out in 2011 btw. So I went through 6 pairs at $40.00 a pop until I found a pair that actually still charged and worked. Either they were designed with planned obsolescence in mind or it was another classic example of Sony being the smartest dumb people in the room. ...what were we talking about again?

Teaming with IGS just made Goldin Auctions a joke for game and collectables. It wreaks of desperation to get a piece of the pie and having no idea what you're doing. Look at the submittal form...it advises you to send your items to some dude's house. Theyve blocked many people online for asking any questions about this.

Noone is swapping games. Business are business, and there are much easier ways to make legitimate money than committing crimes. The answer is always the simplest, aka, Occam's Razor. 1. The damage happened in transit, on accident. 2. The damage happened at Wata, on accident. Wata's QA has been all over the map since being inundated, it would be highly advised to use the Warp Zone tier if you absolutely MUST grade now, otherwise just wait for them to stabilize a bit and avoid these questions.