Originally Posted by
Tanooki
The one big monkey in the room here, population reports.
There are not to back up this bs. When combined with the fact that WATA and Heritage have owners/board members on both companies at the same time, and that they double dip to make money on others goods they grade so well, it comes off as like some huge SEC worthy thing to have investigated.
Coin, stamp, comic, card, etc they all have days, months, years, decades worth of population reports that show the amount of copies of X item and how often they exchange hands and for what to help substantiate what they should relatively go for, how much they really shouldn't as well. Sure you can get a double of dumb yo-yos going at it, but really a half million bounce in that gap of time... really? It's fishy as it keeps happening with multiple grossly mass marketed items into the hundreds of thousands if not millions of copies. Sure those masses aren't all still sealed, but it's like people are being lied to believe it's the only one sealed left, only one sealed in this quality left, only with...(insert bs for reaction.) I think not.
I'm already seeing others parrot what I've said here, and other comments I've seen too elsewhere such as the obvious look of money laundering, racketeering, and the rest. Sickeningly it fits all TOO well. Nothing of this is coming off above board anymore with these moves in values on these overly populated games.
You want some real crack smoking crap that seems to have risen up along side of this WATA-HA-ownership pyramid scheme....pokemon.
Go look up what pokemon games have gone for, specifically for fun, try looking at both GEN1, but also whatever the GBA was, particularly Emerald. Also make sure if you're using VGPC to do this, single out 2 variables independently, new(sealed), and then the complete ones too. (Bonus check loose for a laugh or groan as well.) Needless to say an ungraded copy of GEN1 red/blue right now can buy you a car, not a shitty beater either, something with under 100k miles, not very old either I kid you not. Keep in mind that pokemon games they're the most published copies of any game on gameboy outside of the packed-in then sold forever aside Tetris.