Gloves | 12,261 Administrator · Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 This kind of garbage is part of why everyone's Wata orders take for-goddamn-ever by the way: Who the fuck decided to slab a 5 cart-only Earthbound? 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,404 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 27 minutes ago, Gloves said: Who the fuck decided to slab a 5 cart-only Earthbound? Plot twist: the same people who is also paying $100,000 for a slabbed N64 game. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonebone | 1,329 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Gloves said: This kind of garbage is part of why everyone's Wata orders take for-goddamn-ever by the way: Who the fuck decided to slab a 5 cart-only Earthbound? To be fair, the time to grade a cart is minimal. It's the 5.0 CIBs that really slog down the system, hence why Wata raised the price of CIB grading ("temporarily") to $170 per game. Cuts out a lot of riff raff pretty quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWunderful | 2,932 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 6 hours ago, Gloves said: This kind of garbage is part of why everyone's Wata orders take for-goddamn-ever by the way: Who the fuck decided to slab a 5 cart-only Earthbound? I bid 4800$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tidaldreams | 654 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 14 hours ago, MrWunderful said: I bid 4800$ Damn, I was gonna bid $420.69 but I guess it's yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,724 Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 6.0 Stadium Events cart went for $9.6k on Comicconnect. 3 SEs for auction at once, lowest grade, smallest market, summer, investors aren’t interested in incomplete/randomly rare games, etc. Still interesting to see it at basically 2017 prices after the absolute madness of the past few years. The two on HA should be interesting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 1 hour ago, DefaultGen said: 6.0 Stadium Events cart went for $9.6k on Comicconnect. 3 SEs for auction at once, lowest grade, smallest market, summer, investors aren’t interested in incomplete/randomly rare games, etc. Still interesting to see it at basically 2017 prices after the absolute madness of the past few years. The two on HA should be interesting. This is encouraging for my future CIB hunt, although I suspect the HA ones will go for significantly more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xjwebb1982 | 50 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) Comic connect auction for 9.6 Zelda 2 rev A round went for $15.7k. Last two exact same grade and variant sold on HA for $38.4k in April and $30k in November. Market signal or just unique to comic connection? Really would have thought this would have gone for more. https://www.comicconnect.com/item/919265 Edited June 22, 2021 by Xjwebb1982 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doner24 | 1,224 Moderator · Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 2 hours ago, DefaultGen said: 6.0 Stadium Events cart went for $9.6k on Comicconnect. 3 SEs for auction at once, lowest grade, smallest market, summer, investors aren’t interested in incomplete/randomly rare games, etc. Still interesting to see it at basically 2017 prices after the absolute madness of the past few years. The two on HA should be interesting. I was an underbid at $9424 and would’ve gone higher, but was golfing and forgot. I think it’s more about using Comicconnect for the lower prices than anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW | 714 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Yeah, it's interesting but I think comicconnect having no buzz and a terrible site has gotta play into it. It'll be super interesting to see where HA and certifiedlink auctions end. I'm guessing a small number of things will go super high but quite a lot will underperform, but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut | 9,031 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 5 hours ago, AdamW said: Yeah, it's interesting but I think comicconnect having no buzz and a terrible site has gotta play into it. It'll be super interesting to see where HA and certifiedlink auctions end. I'm guessing a small number of things will go super high but quite a lot will underperform, but who knows. Erm... Weren't you supposed to be cataloguing copies of Super Mario Bros for us?! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW | 714 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Haha! Sorry! There turned out to "only" be 8. certifiedlink doesn't have any. comicconnect had 4, two of which are still up for offer: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/864980 (6.0 CIB second print, highest offer $3500)https://www.comicconnect.com/item/919092 (9.2/A sealed 9th print, priced at $150k, no offers yet) The other two sold: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/912001 (6.0/B 10th or 11th print, $7600)https://www.comicconnect.com/item/919370 (9.4/B I think 5th print, $225,000) That last one is a pretty big fish! Surprised there hasn't been more mention of it. HA has four too: https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/7261-28053.s (6.0 CIB first print (test market), current bid $8250)https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/7261-28054.s (5.5 CIB first print (test market), current bid $1900)https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/7261-28055.s (9.0/A 7th print, current bid $75,000)https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/7261-28056.s (9.6/A+ 10th or 11th print, current bid $50,000) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,724 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 The 6.0 Mario has the "wrong" manual ("Year"). The 5.5 is uglier but has the correct/earlier manual (No Year). Both are pretty rekt, neither even still have the sticker which is like... the thing you're buying right! I'll be surprised if the later one sells for $1000s more based on eye appeal in the same low grade, since the only reason to buy one of these at all is to say you have the earliest, and the 6.0 isn't the earliest. Then again I won't be surprised because nothing matters anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonebone | 1,329 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 26 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: The 6.0 Mario has the "wrong" manual ("Year"). The 5.5 is uglier but has the correct/earlier manual (No Year). Both are pretty rekt, neither even still have the sticker which is like... the thing you're buying right! I'll be surprised if the later one sells for $1000s more based on eye appeal in the same low grade, since the only reason to buy one of these at all is to say you have the earliest, and the 6.0 isn't the earliest. Then again I won't be surprised because nothing matters anymore. Well supposedly the change to a Year manual happened so early in the Matte production, that's why neither is labeled an IMP. I don't think the majority cares one way or the other at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,724 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 6 minutes ago, jonebone said: Well supposedly the change to a Year manual happened so early in the Matte production, that's why neither is labeled an IMP. I don't think the majority cares one way or the other at this point. Yeah I don't know enough about correct pairing, I just think if you're going to blow $1,000s on an ugly matte Mario to check a box you might as well get the earliest everything in it, let alone if it's cheaper to do so. But I'm sitting here looking at IC and FDS date codes which are beyond what no one cares about monetarily, so my thought process is different than the average HA buyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApebitMusic | 130 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 6/18/2021 at 12:25 AM, Gloves said: This kind of garbage is part of why everyone's Wata orders take for-goddamn-ever by the way: Who the fuck decided to slab a 5 cart-only Earthbound? This is pretty dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,123 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 9 hours ago, DefaultGen said: The 6.0 Mario has the "wrong" manual ("Year"). The 5.5 is uglier but has the correct/earlier manual (No Year). Both are pretty rekt, neither even still have the sticker which is like... the thing you're buying right! I'll be surprised if the later one sells for $1000s more based on eye appeal in the same low grade, since the only reason to buy one of these at all is to say you have the earliest, and the 6.0 isn't the earliest. Then again I won't be surprised because nothing matters anymore. That's my old matte SMB! I'm interested to see what it goes for. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliboy24 | 47 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 The signature video game auction is ending in a few a days. Just going through current prices on some, I see a bunch of games sitting pretty cheap compared to what they sold for previously. I guess most of the action takes place during the live auction itself? Hoping I can maybe win a game or two for a good price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inasuma | 1,228 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Caliboy24 said: The signature video game auction is ending in a few a days. Just going through current prices on some, I see a bunch of games sitting pretty cheap compared to what they sold for previously. I guess most of the action takes place during the live auction itself? Hoping I can maybe win a game or two for a good price There's a 9.8 A++ Pokemon Emerald sitting cozy at $15.5k. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,724 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Caliboy24 said: The signature video game auction is ending in a few a days. Just going through current prices on some, I see a bunch of games sitting pretty cheap compared to what they sold for previously. I guess most of the action takes place during the live auction itself? Hoping I can maybe win a game or two for a good price Prepare to get wrecked! (Actually sometimes 1-2 slip through the cracks and don’t sell for “HA prices” but probably not with a hundred eyes on this one). Whoever bids weeks in advance is probably bidding against the item owners, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliboy24 | 47 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) Let's take for instance Adventure Island WATA 9.8. First one that caught my eye and one of the first to be sold soon since it's in alphabetical order starting with "A." The last one (might be this same one) sold on Heritgae just this year April for $16,800. Currently, the game is sitting at around $2200 lol. I'd expect with just 3 days left, the bidding should be within around that 50% threshold of what it sold for previously if it were to match or come close to that price. I'm thinking now either the previous sale price was an outlier/possibly considered overpriced or this one would be sold at a bargain price. It also appears that most bidders are more focused on the sole "highest graded" games seeing that the bids they currently have are eye popping. I dunno, we'll see but I'm still predicting that there will be a lot more bargain priced games to be had in this auction than in any other Heritage auction. Edited July 6, 2021 by Caliboy24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulag Joe | 590 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Caliboy24 said: Let's take for instance Adventure Island WATA 9.8. First one that caught my eye and one of the first to be sold soon since it's in alphabetical order starting with "A." The last one (might be this same one) sold on Heritgae just this year April for $16,800. Currently, the game is sitting at around $2200 lol. I'd expect with just 3 days left, the bidding should be within around that 50% threshold of what it sold for previously if it were to match or come close to that price. I'm thinking now either the previous sale price was an outlier/possibly considered overpriced or this one would be sold at a bargain price. It also appears that most bidders are more focused on the sole "highest graded" games seeing that the bids they currently have are eye popping. I dunno, we'll see but I'm still predicting that there will be a lot more bargain priced games to be had in this auction than in any other Heritage auction. Which games do you think might be picked up at a bargain price in this auction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tidaldreams | 654 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 3 hours ago, Caliboy24 said: Let's take for instance Adventure Island WATA 9.8. First one that caught my eye and one of the first to be sold soon since it's in alphabetical order starting with "A." The last one (might be this same one) sold on Heritgae just this year April for $16,800. Currently, the game is sitting at around $2200 lol. I'd expect with just 3 days left, the bidding should be within around that 50% threshold of what it sold for previously if it were to match or come close to that price. I'm thinking now either the previous sale price was an outlier/possibly considered overpriced or this one would be sold at a bargain price. It also appears that most bidders are more focused on the sole "highest graded" games seeing that the bids they currently have are eye popping. I dunno, we'll see but I'm still predicting that there will be a lot more bargain priced games to be had in this auction than in any other Heritage auction. You should realize that the current price of an auction has no relation to the ending price. I've seen auctions where 90% of the bids happen in the last 10 seconds and others that have no bids in the last few hours. If I'm interested in anything, my bid goes in the last 5 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumars2001 | 164 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 1 hour ago, tidaldreams said: You should realize that the current price of an auction has no relation to the ending price. I've seen auctions where 90% of the bids happen in the last 10 seconds and others that have no bids in the last few hours. If I'm interested in anything, my bid goes in the last 5 seconds. This is 100% correct! These current prices will go way up in the last few moments of the auctions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,724 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 It takes a lot to shock me these days but did Dave Mirra himself buy this game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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