Crazy collectors are fine. A little wierd sure, but hey it's their choice. Some enthusiast 'authority' grading mass produced products - hilarious and a waste of time. An inconsistent 'authority' doing it for money ... that's sailing pretty close to fraudulent... The only way these services would be worth anything is if they were recognised by insurance companies or something similar.
it does seem weird how the gaming community has more self proclaimed experts in it then actual experts. I feel like its the fans that let the "experts" come to life just bc they read a wiki page or have a youtube channel or charge a few for something that doesn't make since
I blame YouTube.
How many problems hasn't youtube started?
Well you know what that means? Quietly go buy up the games for that system, then make it 3 consoles that don't have videos. Join the club, get rich off the suckerfish in the big pond.
I was being sarcastic, and it does feel kind of odd sometimes depending how wide the gap is at least. A little over a year ago I ditched 10 NES/SNES games, and used them to buy a home use only Pin-Bot pinball machine. 2 NES games got $600 alone another $350 off one SNES cart all loose. That was very weird feeling going from a static dust shelf ornament I didn't rarely if ever use to get a big original pinball machine with all the lights, sounds, and randomness of it. It still feels off trading up some easily dumped and emulated ROMs for that kind of money because basically you're paying for the quality of a sticker and a couple hunks of plastic plus the board the game sits on, that's it. There's really no true value there at all. Try as they might Pinball Arcade (or others) will never 100% nail down real ball physics or the feel of a real table, ever.
Some enthusiast 'authority' grading mass produced products - hilarious and a waste of time. An inconsistent 'authority' doing it for money ... that's sailing pretty close to fraudulent...
for liberating him from the most annoying and tiresome part of this hobby...
Isn't this whole grading thing about liberating him completely from his hobby by making sure he never touches his games again after sealing them in some stupid box?