VGA Face Palm (Just read their FAQ)

Let's all send in a lot of crappy condition sealed sports game to them and get them to flip their crap.

 

Yeah, let's all give them a ton of money, that'll really make them flip their crap!

 

Oh yeah... I really should think things over more :/

 

It's not as if they are evil - sealed games are sealed anyways, so why not put them into boxes? It's not as if anyone would play them otherwise. What I don't get is why people tend to charge such high prices for them and why some idiots pay that money, but this is not up to VGA. Most serious collectors I know do not grade, I think it's mostly a Western Nintendo- and Playstation collectors thing. Never seen too many Japanese graded games.

I once saw someone who graded a Japanese brand-new Super Smash Bros (N64) and the price tag was like $1500. New copies can be had on Yahoo Japan for $100 and they never sell. Up yours, cunt.

Well, those who collect for the please tend to not grade anyways. Personally, I'd never grade anything even if I had a sealed Stadium Events. I think it adds no value, neither for me nor for a potential seller... but that's just me.

 

I'd buy a *VERY* small amount of games to keep sealed and have put into a very nice fine case (Non VGA), just to have that all mighty feeling of having a game in such nice looking shape...never opened in perfect shape : P

 

Must be if they tore open a gold cart and ripped off the eprom stickers and only gave it a 85.

 

But you can have that without sending it to VGA. All those old sealed NES/SNES games survived 15-25 years in that very same pristine condition, why is it so important to put it in a box all of a sudden? lol

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I saw that picture before, but I wonder... why did they even grade an open game (ignoring the fact that it had never been sealed anyway)?? When that guy sold the Zelda 'prototype', it did not receive a score but an NA or something. Why did the NWC cart an 85???

 

I'd put my sealed games in a nice case/box (Again a non VGA graded set up) as IMO it just makes it look better on the shelf or in the display cab.

 

Wouldn't this erase the content this way? Opening the cart like this is just stupid anyway...

 

Not immediately, just keep it away from any form of UV light (including sunlight).

It doesn't matter if it's blank though, sealed items don't have to work.

It's likely the cart never had stickers over the eprom erase windows, but I don't know why they opened the cart.

 

Probably so you can see that it's the original PCB inside (because as we know, there's no way to check anymore once it's sealed in that stupid box). It's pretty stupid to expose the EPROMs in a way that predestines them to be erased over time. I mean, the whole point of exposing them is to show that this is the real deal and valuable, but by doing so, you increase the chance to destroy the entire item. WTF

 

It's in a UV resistant case.

 

The question is: Would you really trust that $20 UV case to protect your $20,000 game?

It's directly exposed to the light. It's basically like you're going for a bungee jump and buy a rope from a dollar store. There's no need for that risk?

 

That makes me want to choke a bitch

 

Your statements are of timeless stupidity.

 

Um, isn't checking the cart's authenticity part of what the VGA is supposed to do?

So why disassemble the cart, to prove to the people who don't trust the VGA in the first place?

 

*Passive statement*

Or so they claim

 

That's a understatement.

 

:stupid:

I do agree with the statement of trusting a $20 case for a $20,000 game,though - if I had something that expensive, it would be in a much better case than that. But then again, if the guy has a game like that we are doing an awful lot of assuming by thinking that's the only means of protection it has.

 

Seems like some guy tries to jump on the bandwagon:

Brand-new US Turbo Duo, graded by "VGQuality" with 95% --- price tag: $5,000

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Turbo-Duo-C...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

The big joke? It's been graded by "VG Quality"... and also offered for a $5,000 "grading-inflation corrected" price BY "VG Quality". LOL! Assole.