retro.magnus

+1, checked my CIB Silver, Gold, & Crystal and they all have the P on the box.

Only sometimes I had to reach out twice for it to properly apply.

There are examples of this from all grading companies, unfortunately. Another thing I forgot to note with CGC is you have to pay for a yearly subscription, so if you submit a chunk of games it ends up being cheaper than WATA, but if you only have a handful WATA will be cheaper. EDIT: NVM, they just announced price & membership changes lol.

CGC is $10 cheaper than WATA, so if you're going for the most cost efficient route, go with them. Otherwise, imo, it's just personal preference between WATA & CGC. I have personally moved towards CGC because I was one of the people who had games sitting at WATA for over a year and just can't give them anymore money for how bad of an experience I've had with them. Also it's a lot more expensive for me to ship to WATA now that they're on the west coast (I'm east coast) & CGC is in FL.

A lot of racket with this WATA stuff coming back up. But nonetheless, I got another top of the pop game back from CGC. Took advantage of their $10 discount as well.

Just got this beauty back.

FWIW, I don't think mine was a reseal, I no longer have that exact copy but I've had many DC games graded all with similar condition seals and some with wear on the manual.

giving them out for free these days!

What @RH said, they'll get bent down. Here's an example: https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/the-flash-wata-96-a-sealed-game-boy-thq-1992-usa/p/7349-33005.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Yes, for some reason the shipping was delayed from this auction for me as well. They shipped out yesterday though. I paid via ACH and even that was delayed. If yours still hasn't shipped, I'd call them. Their CS is very helpful & each to get ahold of.

Many have had an issue with the credit even applying. It seems its a totally manual process at the moment, which is so crazy to me. Happened to me. Once I contacted them, they refunded the difference on one of my orders.

Still think that label is such a downgrade.

Something else I just found. To me it looks like this game is numbered 075. It’s super blurry but I swear that’s what it says. Could’ve been a huge order that someone didn’t care about/rushed. https://www.ebay.com/itm/354544298071?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=OkwYNr9CQ4i&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=Gzl19y7eQrK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY This one looks like 064 https://www.ebay.com/itm/266116977128?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=OkwYNr9CQ4i&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=Gzl19y7eQrK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Ok so I’ve looked through a bunch of games that this seller has sold and there are other examples of games that are way over graded. Every single one of them I have found seem to be from 3 orders that are dated April if 2022. Does anyone know if anything happened with or at WATA that month aside from recently moving? I’ve heard folks mention they got rid of the whole Colorado team..? I have an email from them dated March 29th where they state they still had Colorado open “We are keeping our Denver operation open to focus solely on backlogged orders. Our goal is to get all orders that were sent to Colorado prior to February 1, 2022, shipped back to their respective customers no later than April 30, 2022.” Is there any chance that in their rush to get through the backlog by the end of April, that games were not properly graded? Or in the rush did they mishandle games and just hand out 9.8’s so people didn’t get kissed that they got shit grades after WATA had their games for over a year? Is it possible the graders had an idea that they were going to be let go and just didn’t give a damn? The more I think about this and going back and reading that email, the more I think it has something to do with Denver closing & the madness of finishing up their backlog. EDIT: was this when WATA ran out of DVD cases? Pretty much all of the examples from this seller are dvd sized games.

Here’s a other from the seller that just ended that clearly isn’t worthy of its grade. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266162768705?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=OkwYNr9CQ4i&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=Gzl19y7eQrK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

My 3 raw games I submitted with the above order just shipped. Meanwhile, WATA still has an order of mine that they received the second week of December and moved to post grading the first week of January. Lol.

Game looks like it was relisted https://www.ebay.com/itm/266145833637?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=OkwYNr9CQ4i&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=Gzl19y7eQrK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I had to do the same thing. This is AFTER I emailed them before placing the order because the site wasn't showing the adjustment.

For anyone contemplating their crossover service. I submitted 4 crossovers to them, they arrived to CGC the 20th, I got the shipping email yesterday evening (28th). 1 game received the same grade. 8.0 A > 8.0 A 1 looks like it wasn't crossed over - I sent this because I believed WATA overgraded this and wanted to see what they'd do. 2 received higher grades - Both seemed undergraded to me. One went from 7.5 A+ > 8 A+, other 9.2 A+ > 9.4 A++

Yep they're great. They must've had cases of shit because a large majority of games they post another will follow the next week. They usually list the lower grades first then move up if they have multiple.

It was graded in April, last year.

I’ve bought multiple games from this seller. They have always described each game very well and everything I have received has arrived with a shit ton of bubble wrap. Based on my experiences with them I wouldn’t imagine they are to blame.

Hahahah I saw that lot and was literally waiting for you to post that you won

I wholeheartedly disagree with you. I have won quite a few auctions in the past 4-6 months on graded games at pretty cheap prices. Some for just the cost of grading them..

Would you really trust them? I have a hard time believing that they’ll do a better job than my Bestine does