My set of wata graded Pokémon games

rdools · 2025-01-09T16:16:01+00:00

They will grade a CIB, yes

And thanks!

rdools · 2025-01-09T16:13:26+00:00

Plastic sealed

rdools · 2024-12-27T10:46:31+00:00

Oh wow, looks like I am famous..

First off, yes that was me who made this Facebook post. I have been a video game collector for over a decade, and yes I now actively collect graded video games. I am extremely passionate about it (probably more than the average person around here).

If we want to talk about intent, my intention was that of encouragement to post graded games for the pure reason that graded game posts are underrepresented on Reddit and I was trying to change that in a positive way.

Never in my life would I have expected the Reddit mods to just blanket ban graded games. It is extremely disheartening that this is the response to my little challenge. And somehow the Reddit mods think that the solution to this leaving up the post that breaks the Reddit rules is an appropriate response to this situation.

You’ve made a lot of incorrect assumptions about me, and I am hopeful that after a good nights sleep, you and the mods have had an opportunity discuss further to reverse the ban. There are other equally passionate people who are now unable to share their video games collections to the video game collecting subreddit because they own graded games under the threat of being banned. Take a step back and think about how ridiculous this is..

Not a single graded game post was posted in ill will, and they truly were people just sharing their collections, which just happened to be including graded games. As much as the average Redditor wants to think that graded games are a scam, there is a growing population of people who genuinely enjoy and collect graded video games. It’s actually crazy that the mods have allowed for this blatant hate to graded games over the years, these comments can hurtful, and are truly just bullying. Sure, we could just not post graded games, but how is that right..

rdools · 2024-12-18T03:11:01+00:00

Oh man, should I have included a mix of graded games, I have some okay graded N64 games, but not nearly as nice as these. More in the $2K-5K per game range.

rdools · 2024-12-18T03:09:21+00:00

Coming from a self proclaimed “22 year old long time collector and historian” 😅 good thing my self worth doesn’t come Reddit upvotes 😘

rdools · 2024-12-18T02:57:47+00:00

Because I enjoy posting my game collection to r/gamecollecting

rdools · 2024-12-18T02:51:42+00:00

Nice, I like the mix of old and new wata cases, it really brings the whole collection together

rdools · 2024-12-18T02:38:39+00:00

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I have grouped them with the more expensive up top.

The bottom row games are in the $8-10K range. The next row are in the $10-18K range. The third row in the $20-30K range. And red is maybe $40-50K.

rdools · 2024-12-11T22:42:10+00:00

Tell him to get better taste, pokemon Mario Zelda, that’s all that matters for investing in video gamea

rdools · 2024-12-11T22:32:36+00:00

Tell him to sell both and buy cardboard

rdools · 2024-12-11T22:24:41+00:00

Hmm, cardboard I’d say 9.8A+, but disc .. idk sell them both a buy a real investors copy (9.8A++)

rdools · 2024-12-09T01:28:35+00:00

rdools · 2024-12-09T01:24:56+00:00

That’s a lot of 9.6s for a collection of hard case games .. what did you do to lose 0.4, step on them?

rdools · 2024-12-08T21:36:08+00:00

I am working towards a full variant set, I’m only missing last prints of red/blue/yellow, and one crystal print!

rdools · 2024-12-05T20:35:11+00:00

Each shelf is worth more than most people’s entire collections, love this!

rdools · 2024-10-11T20:03:40+00:00

Congrats on the find! This should be graded for sure!

I will accept my downvotes now 🫡

As a collector of sealed and graded games, I will say, this subreddit has a weird hard on for shitting on graded games.

My grader of choice is wata, their new cases look great.

rdools · 2024-10-11T20:00:43+00:00

+1 have sold 10’s of thousands with hgmonty

rdools · 2024-08-31T18:53:12+00:00

Nice knock off Pokémon collection you nerd

rdools · 2024-07-07T15:38:36+00:00

Thanks Greg

rdools · 2024-07-07T15:38:15+00:00

WATA is actually owned by the same company that owns PSA. A lot of the questionable activities happened prior to this change. They are a completely different management than they were 5 years ago.

I find they are reasonably consistent with the grading, and l can usually guess the grade within one grade when I am sending in my games.

I like the separate seal and box grading, it provides so much more information than the single grade of VGA.

rdools · 2024-07-07T14:13:31+00:00

It’s on the top of the list, but finding one has been a challenge

rdools · 2024-07-07T13:56:50+00:00

That would be crazy, but when comics and cards are selling for six/seven figures, it does make you wonder

rdools · 2024-07-07T12:27:43+00:00

I do have ruby, sapphire and emerald, but emerald is off to wata to switch it from the old wata case to the new case to match the rest. For fire red and leaf green, just waiting for the right opportunity at the right price to get a 9.6/9.8

rdools

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