Do not support the vga!

[richy rude]

The whole issue regarding game grading annoys me and is ultimately flawed. Depending on who 'grades' your game you could see a big increase or decrease in value.
But not only that, who's to say what the actual contents are like inside the sealed game??? I've bought brand new sealed games before (but i should just clarify NOT VGA graded) and the instruction manual had been creased. This has been on sealed xbox games with the xbox certificate of authenticity still intact. And I've had this before on retro games like on the nintendo 64. I know video game retailers can reseal games but these were brand new (And you can tell if a box has been opened before as the flush fit isnt the same and usually has a small crease due to being opened already).

Anyway I'm talking too much lol. But seriously I like the idea but it's ultimately flawed as you're paying a huge premium for something that you don't know what you're going to get inside. Like a box of chocolates really.... expensive chocolates at that

[Vlad]

Y'know, we could probably do it pretty well as a community - it might work a bit like the 'What's the value of' thread, maybe a new subforum.

We're all of different regions and backgrounds so it would be a good mix of opinions and we're all big collectors, so we'd know what to look for and values and I imagine quite a few of us are into comics, you could use the same kind of system as them.

The trouble would be that we'd have to do it from pictures, videos and detailed descriptions so it would be more for a personal thing rather than having a label to use as a sale tool, no matter how meaningless that is.

Of course, if it really took off and you could make money for the site and possibly even a commission thing if it became massive folk could send stuff to an approved representative for a certain region then you could send it back boxed with a more official grading and with a bigger charge.
That brings up the bigger question of how to pick representatives but I'm just thinking out loud and just now the community is that nice size where everybody I've come across so far is friendly and it's a really nice atmosphere so I don't know if it would be a terribly huge issue now rather than if we had tons of folk that were all isolated from one another.

[mosavon]

Originally Posted by richy rude

The whole issue regarding game grading annoys me and is ultimately flawed. Depending on who 'grades' your game you could see a big increase or decrease in value.
But not only that, who's to say what the actual contents are like inside the sealed game??? I've bought brand new sealed games before (but i should just clarify NOT VGA graded) and the instruction manual had been creased. This has been on sealed xbox games with the xbox certificate of authenticity still intact. And I've had this before on retro games like on the nintendo 64. I know video game retailers can reseal games but these were brand new (And you can tell if a box has been opened before as the flush fit isnt the same and usually has a small crease due to being opened already).

Anyway I'm talking too much lol. But seriously I like the idea but it's ultimately flawed as you're paying a huge premium for something that you don't know what you're going to get inside. Like a box of chocolates really.... expensive chocolates at that

Why does it matter about the inner contents? Its not like anyone buying a VGA graded game has any intention of opening it.

I understand why people buy graded games, but personally its not really something for me.

[SwiftDeath]

Originally Posted by mosavon

Why does it matter about the inner contents? Its not like anyone buying a VGA graded game has any intention of opening it.

I understand why people buy graded games, but personally its not really something for me.

Only matters if someone like you goes crazy and actually opens their collection

I would agree that 99% of people that are willing to pay the kind of prices VGA graded games bring will never ever think of opening them.

On the other hand, I remember reading about a Nintendo collector who had to sell their sealed NES games, I think it was NES, and did so locally to some rich guy. It was probably like a 1000 USD sale or something for maybe 10 games??? I don't remember the numbers so well but anyways rich guy was buying the games for his 9 - 10 year old son who he brought with him. Rich guy pays for the games and then hands 10 sealed games to son. Son proceeds to open every single game in front of collector, collector proceeds to lose his mind....

[geralds]

Originally Posted by SwiftDeath

Only matters if someone like you goes crazy and actually opens their collection

I would agree that 99% of people that are willing to pay the kind of prices VGA graded games bring will never ever think of opening them.

On the other hand, I remember reading about a Nintendo collector who had to sell their sealed NES games, I think it was NES, and did so locally to some rich guy. It was probably like a 1000 USD sale or something for maybe 10 games??? I don't remember the numbers so well but anyways rich guy was buying the games for his 9 - 10 year old son who he brought with him. Rich guy pays for the games and then hands 10 sealed games to son. Son proceeds to open every single game in front of collector, collector proceeds to lose his mind....

Good games are ment to be played anyway. I do see why people collect sealed games but it just seems so freeking silly to me the games are ment to be played so why not leave it at that.

[Madigan]

Originally Posted by SwiftDeath

On the other hand, I remember reading about a Nintendo collector who had to sell their sealed NES games, I think it was NES, and did so locally to some rich guy. It was probably like a 1000 USD sale or something for maybe 10 games??? I don't remember the numbers so well but anyways rich guy was buying the games for his 9 - 10 year old son who he brought with him. Rich guy pays for the games and then hands 10 sealed games to son. Son proceeds to open every single game in front of collector, collector proceeds to lose his mind....

Originally Posted by geralds

Good games are ment to be played anyway. I do see why people collect sealed games but it just seems so freeking silly to me the games are ment to be played so why not leave it at that.

That's why you buy 1 to play and 1 to keep sealed