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Startyde

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. I know many of the MtG graders are pissed at how redic CGCs grading is. Orders of 140+ getting only 2 9.5 etc.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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?
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. This is an interesting perspective. AFA and UKG have started to change how they grade figures because people were taking carded sealed figures with wear, and cracking then open to grade the figure by itself as loose for a higher grade, thus accelerating the destruction of rare carded figures. While reprints are not "rare" per se, with the grading of CIB, I could see people start to open games with scuffy wrap or a damaged box to try and get mint components to Frankenstein a higher CIB grade for resale. Something to consider when talking about preservation.
  17. This succinctly explains it. Also worth noting there was no debate here, it was just snuck in like the assholes our reps are. For their part, eBay is trying to fight this. They don't want to be in the game of suddenly being responsible for sending millions of 1099s a year. https://youtu.be/weYWF_eIiaM
  18. PS3 will undoubtedly go up greatly in prices. It was a generation of some really bonkers titles and there some great IPs that started here like Uncharted. I also don't believe it will be the last collectable era. We're speedily moving towards an all digital future with subscription streaming outside of niche physical releases. All media disks will have a quaint collectability one day, with premiums for rare or significant titles. Whether this is within our lifetime is another issue entirely, but even with prices being where they are, speculators will begin to move into any cheap, fertile areas looking to strike first on the next big thing. For the sake of full disclosure, I sold two graded PS3 games for 5K just two weeks ago, non CEs. When you have money and grow up with these games, that's all it takes.
  19. That's because you use common sense. Their rationale has never made sense. All grading companies have always released census data, even their rival game graded VGA (until very recently). It's not Watas job to police and influence the free market, and they are also being underhanded about it because the census data IS shared with certain contacts who can inside trade and profit on the information. None of this is pro collector.
  20. They're withholding all census data because they don't want to "lead consumers astray". So instead they let sellers make up how rare something is, which is infinitely safer I guess.
  21. I rarely block a bidder but the situation that triggers me is if I have something listed as X BIN and they offer something less than half that. You know what fine, I appreciate the Hussle so I counter with something I feel is fair for the item. Then they counter back with $5 more than their first offer. It's at this point I'll usually block because everything about them screams that they'll be trouble dealing with. No regrets.
  22. "After careful consideration" Would love to know exactly what that consideration entailed. Do we wanna make more or less money? Hmmmm.
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