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yeah I just notice lmao.

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Now you have seen one https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1423438042002513921?s=20

Oh you mean the games that they'll ask for an unknown amount of money for before sending back to you graded? The ones that have all significantly shot up in value in the year that WATA has had them sitting around collecting dust? lol

Sooo they have a shortage of everything.

More confirmation on the DVD cases. We'll see if they ship the other non DVD games out before they get those cases in. A shipment of parts we needed for encapsulation of all DVD sized games (Wii, Gamecube, Xbox, PS2) was unexpectedly delayed, and has not arrived yet. Unfortunately, that means that your games, while graded, are not encapsulated and ready to ship. As soon as the shipment arrives, we'll be encapsulating as many games per day as we can and processing them in the order they were received. We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but we'll have your non-DVD sized games out as soon as we can!

Sorry if my original question was confusing. Was your order only for those 3 games? My order are rather large and I'm trying to figure out if they'll partially ship an order back to me if certain cases are in stock or if they will only ship whole orders out.

Did they ship your whole order out, or just partially ship?

It's all a game.

Very true.. But most businesses haven't been as miserable with things they've promised/said as WATA has (imo) Not sure what your issue is, but anytime I have a USPS issue, I call my local post office and the Postmaster is always super helpful.

She isn’t there anymore afaik. They’ve generally been bad at communicating unless they’re asking for money in my experience lol

The crease in the box is a clear giveaway.. Unless there isn't the white crease that I'm seeing in the picture. Not sure what else you're looking for?

Looks like a re-seal unfortunately. Besides the seal itself, you can tell if a cardboard box has been opened (this one has) by the white crease on the red flap where it was bent to open.

Oof. I'm sorry. The post-grading pics on all of mine thankfully look good. Were those games all on the same order? Did you get the dreaded email asking for more money before they shipped them to you?

Has your order moved out of post grading yet? Lol

Not as knowledgeable about the glue. But the one thing I'd suggest looking at is the case artwork and making sure none of the edges have wear.

Where has the second part been mentioned? I've heard the whole contradictory statements about why they aren't releasing in your first paragraph multiple times, but never the second part. Wouldn't doubt it, just wondering where he said that.

hahahah you really can't make this shit up. Good catch seeing it initially

Yep. While I don't think it's safe to assume any of this. It's hard not to wonder after what has happened over the past year & specifically the past couple weeks.

I have personally received 4 resealed games from DealTavern. They have blocked both of my eBay accounts from buying from them lol. I can still buy from their Amazon. Yeppp I was looking at the same thing. The IGS photo is low quality & filtered, but to me there's a small white spot in the same top right corner of the insert too.

OMG the burnout case literally has a bend in the plastic bahaha.

I'm sure you looked, but the only sold BL on eBay is this one. Seems to me there is clear wear on the case insert on the top right of the front and bottom left of the back. Seems suspect. But who knows. EDIT: Same seller has Burnout that also looks like a reseal from the insert damage/wear

Did you ever actually see it in store for sale? I remember my local Hollywood Video so vividly & all the stuff they had for sale. EDIT: Holy shit I actually found a picture of the store before they demolished the interior. The huge black shelving on the left used to be a bunch of CRTs. All the registers were downstairs & 95% of the rental inventory was upstairs.