Here's a link at gamesniped http://www.gamesniped.com/, brought up by googling Video Game Authority.
I love the fact the sellers called BigHed!
Let us all game on & ignore all this
Here's a link at gamesniped http://www.gamesniped.com/, brought up by googling Video Game Authority.
I love the fact the sellers called BigHed!
Let us all game on & ignore all this
Chet: It's futuristic, but that's a crate.
That neo_gamer a-hole doesn't have anything to do with this right? This is a horrible idea, and I hope at least he doesn't gain monetarily from this.
No, this isn't rediculus.
What IS rediculus is that people are paying $90 for SMB3 and $140 for Final Fantasy 1.
If i wanted to be a real asshole... i'd go have some boxes made up from the original maufacturer. Toss in some SMB/Duck Hunt, then seal it on the original equipment. Send it in to them and have them grade a "perfect" fake. See how many of those get through before people are up in arms...
Thing is Prog...unless someone broke the almighty slab ...noone would even know they had a fake if it was done that well.
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I would also like to voice my disappointment in this turn of events.
--Zero
Does anyone else not realize that if in fact this takes off it benefits the gaming community by lowering prices for non-slabbed games?
Has this benefitted any other hobby the way you're describing?
I am really asking, not being an ass...
Like in baseball cards and comics, for instance... did non-slabbed "specimen" prices nose dive once the practice was introduced? I don't think it did, but I'm making a very blind guess here. As in- I've never had anyone tell me about how they've benefitted from this in any other hobby.
Of course. Let's take comics for instance. A non-slabbed gold or silver age book will be about half the price of a slabbed version. Just check ebay. Baseball cards graded or ungraded are so worthless now it's hard to see a difference. Unslabbed coins or coins slabbed by fly-by-night companies tend to go for about 75% of their slabbed counterparts.
It's hard to find specific examples because stock changes so much on ebay, but this is what I've found during the past two or three years I've looked at those three things.
Coins cost about $20 to grade send off to grade, so realistically your coin should be worth more than that to make it worthwhile. Some people make a good living buying slabbed coins they think they can break open and resubmit in the effort to get a higher score and resell for a profit.
EDIT: I don't know much about comics, but here's CGC's faq page. I'm pretty sure they're the biggest grading outfit out there.
http://www.cgccomics.com/faq/index.asp
Last edited by boatofcar; 04-09-2008 at 07:37 PM.
It won't really affect me. I buy games to play, not to sit on a shelf in my house collecting dust. However, this may hurt the game collecting community as a whole via it will be hard to find certain games at a resonable price that are not sealed in some special grading package.
Here's a good example of a graded versus non-graded baseball card:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-Topps-21-Ca...QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/CAL-RIPKEN-JR-19...QQcmdZViewItem
Yeah... that's sorta my question.
I know I can look at ebay right now, and see a big difference in prices. That was not my original question, so let me explain it better.
When grading was 1st introduced to these hobbies- and the 1st few years of the practice being in place, what happened to the value of non graded items? Did a standard, non-graded item increase in price or did it decrease? I'm not talking about relative value (to a graded item). Does anyone know the answer to this? What did a non graded item fetch before grading was introduced, and what did it fetch a year or two later?
Last edited by TheDomesticInstitution; 04-09-2008 at 08:18 PM.