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26 minutes ago, Bronty said:

It’s definitely tough once you fall behind.   Don’t communicate and people are upset.   Communicate and people say you should be spending that time clearing the backlog.   The only way to win is to not fall behind.   Part of that is managing expectations. 

I don't even think it's that, they started a new venture and there are many moving parts. Ppl are reasonable, they just want to know what's going on. That's being part of a community. Anyone in services can attest that no communication is the worst of all. 

Finally broke the 90 barrier, right before ppl start paying more attention to PS1.

1 hour ago, MinusWorlds said:

That’s fair. I guess my point is they come from this community. That should mean something.

I get where you're coming from but this is a logical falacy. By that definition, everyone should always trust family because they're family, and many of us have experiences when that trust didn't pan out. Noone on TV being interviewed about some criminal act ever said "oh yeah, I totally knew they were shady, even though we hung out all the time." It's always a surprise.

I'm not saying Wata is suspicious, but actions speak louder than words. They were part of this "community" when it came time to announce and advertise, but over the last year when orders weren't being met, communication was starved and many on NA were asking for any form of acknowlegement, where were they? Maybe if you were lucky, someone would quote something off a FB post if at all.

TLDR: It doesnt matter if you can vouch for someone as a good person to talk to, when it comes to business and the exchage of money and services, you have to walk the walk too.

8 hours ago, jonebone said:

The fact that some people deny the conflict of interest only further exacerbates the issue.  People aren't dumb.

This is basically the summary. 

My objective analysis being a 20 year sealed game collector on Wata:

I love their site

I like their cases

I dislike their unprofessional unresponsiveness to paying customers.

I dislike their unprofessional non-guarenteed times without any mention on the ordering page

I hate that they don't classify drillholes on ps1 games as flaws, making grading imperfections pointless

I hate that they don't classify employee or promotional punchouts on ps1 games as flaws, making grading imperfections pointless

I hate that they don't classify giant ass non factory sticker and pricetags on games as flaws, making grading imperfections pointless

It will always be what it has always been, key significant titles and the rest just remains flat or falls.

The next spike will be the extremely significant titles for PS1 while everyone else is wasting time on the B and C class Nintendo stuff.