Sealed MarioLand Gameboy Game Graded at 85-90?

[Igorr]

I just send out a sealed pretty mint looking MarioLand from 89 Gameboy game in to get graded. Value??

I have ALL intentions to sell it once I get it back in around 40 days. I assume it will get at least an 85.

[neuropolitique]

Vectorman is a hypocrite!

it will be graded an 85.

[Carey85]

Just make sure that you get back the copy that you sent. I heard from a reliable source that they remove the contents of the game boxes that they grade before resealing them. Caveat emptor is all I've got to say. Best of luck with your slabbed game.

[skaar]

Just make sure that you get back the copy that you sent. I heard from a reliable source that they remove the contents of the game boxes that they grade before resealing them. Caveat emptor is all I've got to say. Best of luck with your slabbed game.

Victory.

[The Shawn]

No sence worrying about it, they seal it in with silicon and then plexiglass it, you'll never get it open again anyhow...

[GrandAmChandler]

If you decide to pay someone else to estimate the grading of a videogame, three things.

1. You are insane. (Yes that includes everyone else looking to get games "graded".

2. Try VAG games, they are much better than the VGA anyways.

3. See number one.

[carlcarlson]

How much did you pay to have it graded? That amount will determine how hard I will laugh.

[Carey85]

I just got back another game professionally graded by VAG games:



I personally think it is their best work to date.

[SpasticFuctard]

I like VAG games, especially the one where you try to make it queef...

[Jorpho]

Just make sure that you get back the copy that you sent. I heard from a reliable source that they remove the contents of the game boxes that they grade before resealing them. Caveat emptor is all I've got to say. Best of luck with your slabbed game.

Srsly? I'd believe it.

[Icarus Moonsight]

How to steal peoples stuff and charge them for it... Gotta slab 'em all!

[portnoyd]

Slab sellers spend a lot of money on the games themselves and getting them slabbed. They sell so few of them that's hard to believe they are turning a profit off of them.

[rpepper9]

Just make sure that you get back the copy that you sent. I heard from a reliable source that they remove the contents of the game boxes that they grade before resealing them. Caveat emptor is all I've got to say. Best of luck with your slabbed game.

Please elaborate. Wouldn't the customer realize that the seam was different/incorrect? Or wouldn't you at least notice the weight difference?

On second thought, what would be the point of pulling the game out? Example from OP, Why would the graders want a loose copy of Super Mario Land? Even with the booklet we are looking at about 5.00 on eBay. I wouldn't think that would be worth the possibility of a bad rep for you service.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Please elaborate. Wouldn't the customer realize that the seam was different/incorrect? Or wouldn't you at least notice the weight difference?

Electric scales... We can get pretty accurate. The trifold and hori seams wouldn't be too hard, properly equipped.



Hey! Slabber! KILL!

[rpepper9]

Off topic, but the above photo of Indiana Jones brings to mind the new season of Robot Chicken. Anyone seen the episode where they have the guys constructing the tunnel up to the idol explaining everything as he goes to the chief of the tribe? And the chief is freaking out on all the money being spent!

Heeeelarrious!

[Ze_ro]

Please elaborate. Wouldn't the customer realize that the seam was different/incorrect? Or wouldn't you at least notice the weight difference?

In my opinion, the sealed game scene is so young that people really don't have the experience yet to tell the difference between a legitimate seal and a reseal. People at NA have tried to make lists of how NES games were sealed, but there are variants out there (known and unknown), and there are tons of people who have easy access to the kind of equipment used to seal things. I can't imagine spending hundreds or thousands on a rare sealed game when for all I know, the seller has already replaced the cartridge and manual with SMB/DH so he can dump the loose cart and manual on eBay for even more money.

Slabbing games seems even more ridiculous... if the best people in our hobby often can't tell the difference between a factory seal or a reseal, then why on earth would anyone trust VGA with it? But hey, no one will ever open up that slab or tear off the shrinkwrap to find out anyways, because they're too worried the game will lose it's value... so who cares, right?

When we're reduced to trying to judge the age of plastic, or trying to look for signs that a box flap may have once been opened, then I think we really need to reexamine our priorities in this hobby.

--Zero

[jb143]

I think everyone is just bitter that they didn't think up the idea first. Buy a bunch of cheap plasctic cases, collect money and a boxed game from people, open the box and replace the treasure hidden inside with a bag of dirt weighing about the same, seal the box inside previously mentioned plasctic case, assign an arbitrary value to it, sent it to your customer, laugh all the way to the bank.

[skaar]

Would you like to buy a bridge?

[dcx516]

I don't know why you would waste your money on that bullshit. The only thing they are an authority on is how to wrap something in plastic. I you could have put your game in a zip lock bag and saved a whole lot of money

[scooterb23]

I got a VAG grade for a picture of a cart I found on the internet! They really liked this one, because I didn't know they could give grades over 100! I'll probably put this pic on ebay later!