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| jipsy:
I almost always recommend not getting your items graded, too many stories of items getting "lost" or damaged while being shipped to/from the grading company. |
| pzeke:
Grading is for schmucks! All of it is a complete and utter waste of time, money, space, energy and resources; there's no inherent benefit to any of it—it's all hokum. If you want to preserve and protect your sealed copy of Little Samson, then get an acrylic case for it. Or better yet, get some box protectors and you'll surely get the same results while spending less time and money. Like the saying goes for almost everything out there: an item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If people want to be this gullible and dumb for this type of market, then, in all honesty, fuck 'em; these will be the same people that will cry an ocean when the same capitalistic ways betray them, like when scalpers get stuck with hundreds of items they thought they could flip for triple their MSRP. It's how things work in the world we live in, whether we like them or not—hyperconsumerism has crippled many hobbies before, so it is what it is. While I'm at it, I can, quite frankly, see the point people make for grading other collectibles like comicbooks, trading cards, and even toys/figures, but overall I still consider grading those a waste equally given there are alternatives—cheaper, I might add—that will accomplish the same a cumbersome piece of plastic would. My two cents on the matter, of course. But hell, there's really no "correct" way when it comes to collecting things, so I digress. To each their own, as they say. Yin and yang, my friends. Below are a couple of articles and videos for further reference: NintendoLife - Why getting your retro games graded could be a complete waste of money Sports Collectors Digest - Special Care: Baseball HOF Says No to Slabbed Cards (Concerns sports cards, but it's still an interesting read about slabbing nonetheless.) Karl Jobst - Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market Karl Jobst - The Retro Video Game Scam Gets Worse... |
| pzeke:
Here's a graded loose copy of Contra that's meme-worthy: This individual spent $175 to have the game graded, with a wait time of 14 months no less. And here's the kicker: the game doesn't work. All the ironic humor and satire aside, I think this more than exemplifies the superlative degree of nonsense and dishonesty that WATA deals with. |
| leynos:
Scam. Open your games or give them to someone who wants to play them or it's just hoarding. |
| sworddude:
I wouldn't say it's a scam. there is a market for it and it does increase the value with the correct things. that you could grade trash and lose money is all voluntary at the end of the day. it's like ordering a burger withouth the meat when you can alter the ingredients, ofcourse it's a bad deal at that point. they'll just process the order and charge you the same anyway I don't like grading either, but even way back you had people paying for grading services on sealed games in which it was much cheaper aswell. aside from investors nowadays you do have some people that actually appreciate it hence why it exists. it's easy to ignore for us regular collectors anyway, especially with retro why buy a brand new factory sealed games anyway. way more pricy for pretty much an identical to excellent upwards condition used game. I think however it's nice that it ain't like TCG. with videogames the core grading collectors stick with factory sealed games which is less than 1% of the entire thing let alone the people that would be interested in it. used grading will never take off I'd hope. it ain't for now anyway. With TCG within pretty much the entire collecting scene grading is pretty much the standard and accepted with the exception of competitive but even within those high odds that they are into graded cards aswell, raw collecting is way less of a thing if where talking more serious collectors. videogames will most likely never be that way. because than the games would be unusable which ain't okay with most folks. games can be used cards not really. cards are more of a collectors thing to look at. |
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