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| Warmsignal:
--- Quote from: sworddude on August 02, 2021, 09:24:17 am --- --- Quote from: Warmsignal on July 25, 2021, 09:18:15 pm ---Yeah, I don't believe for a second anyone would pay those prices. The word is that auctioneer has been accused a fraudulent practices many times before. It might be worth that if it's still sealed and intact 600 years in the future, but not today. --- End quote --- i doubt it especially when it's graded probably stored in a bank vault. also with the mentality of value today I don't see it getting lost. Maybe if it becomes worthless in the future but when it's rare 600 years later as a result of that it wouldn't really matter since nobody cared at that point. I also highly doubt even raw sealed games are going to evaporate/ degrade in 600 years within normal living conditions. In an old shed sure but what serious collector stores there collection in a poorly isolated shed anything would end up damaged in those conditions even things that are build to last. --- End quote --- There was the one guy on YT who infamously did just that, and even posted a video about how his entire collection got ruined while in a cruddy old garden shed. I've never put my stuff in a shed, even a well built and climate controlled one. The things I value, belong in the security of my own home. |
| tripredacus:
A disaster can occur where the paper portions of a game collection can get ruined. You then need to decide whether or not it is worth to even keep the plastic and electronic part of a cartridge that is inside. I've had to make that decision before... there is really nothing you can do in that instance, your item will be immediately worthless. It doesn't have the same type of novelty as those VCS carts that were dug out of the Atari landfill. And while my experience wasn't on the scale of a major disaster, just think about all of the video game collections that get damaged by major floods. Everytime I see a news story about a town getting a flood, I immediately think about that there is a collector of something that lived there and lost all their stuff. :'( |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: tripredacus on August 02, 2021, 05:10:00 pm ---A disaster can occur where the paper portions of a game collection can get ruined. You then need to decide whether or not it is worth to even keep the plastic and electronic part of a cartridge that is inside. I've had to make that decision before... there is really nothing you can do in that instance, your item will be immediately worthless. It doesn't have the same type of novelty as those VCS carts that were dug out of the Atari landfill. And while my experience wasn't on the scale of a major disaster, just think about all of the video game collections that get damaged by major floods. Everytime I see a news story about a town getting a flood, I immediately think about that there is a collector of something that lived there and lost all their stuff. :'( --- End quote --- Sure but considering the amount of people that take it super seriously these days I really doubt a sizable chunk will actually vanish thanks to some disaster so many people doing it after all. |
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