Game condition yellowing/original label etc...
Maybe i'm ocd, but condition has been overwhelming an issue for me. Obviously used games...20-30-40 years old will not be like new. But the yellowing of consoles or the bane of my existance...super nintendo games! I literally buy game-lots just to harvest backs lol. Gameboy games, consoles, etc... I have bought 3-4 copies of some games just slowly upgrading the condition. I hate that there are so many fakes and repros now. To this day I have a bunch of games in near mint conditon...that I am holding on until I can find slightly better, sure would like to find someone willing to take a nearly same condition copy plus a few bucks but we live in weird impractical circles. Anyone else afflicted haha?
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As for yellowing, that can be remedied with some good ol' fashioned retrobrite.
I could always do an "upgrade" later on.
Until the price triples overnight!
I've heard it said about late stage collectibles, that "condition is king." Essentially, everyone who still collects after a collectible has passed its "bubble phase" already has everything, and is just looking to upgrade their collection, like BDL. Today, a beat-up copy of a game, box, manual, or etc, holds nearly the same value as its near-mint counterpart. In the future, when only the die-hard collectors are left, the only items that maintain value will be those in immaculate condition.
I'm not sure if that is true of baseball cards or comics, or if it will be true of video games. However, its definitely food for thought.
I'm not sure if that is true of baseball cards or comics, or if it will be true of video games. However, its definitely food for thought.
Since the majority of card collectors are condition sensitive, I can attest to your statements about card collecting being true, especially for graded cards. Graded cards also take a lot of the speculation out of buying online. You can be assured you're getting a legit card hopefully graded by a trusted authority with "x" grade.
Comics are a similar beast, based on what I understand of the comic scene. You can get most of the valuable comics much cheaper by buying by buying anthologies or reading them online, so most people buying the old ones are also really condition sensitive and will shell out more money for better condition stuff.
That's one of the reasons I went CIB only a few years back. I also think the materials and the manuals are full of very interesting and helpful info, and the box art is almost always super great. But there is also the aspect of boxes being much, much more uncommon than the cart-only counterparts, and we're already seeing mint condition boxes go for a significantly higher premium than beat up or OK condition boxes.
Yeah, I did get a 20 year head start a bit, but... There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's.
Meh, doesn't bother me. Especially if that means I get it cheaper as long as it's not like destroyed
I'm sure anyone thats bought from you knows what "bertberry brown" is.
I've eased up on condition of carts lately, a few nicks or dings isn't the end of the world, just adds character and makes you feel like the game was well loved and well used.
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I'm sure anyone thats bought from you knows what "bertberry brown" is. I've eased up on condition of carts lately, a few nicks or dings isn't the end of the world, just adds character and makes you feel like the game was well loved and well used.
I know the feeling. I've recently required some high dollar games (well, for the GB market) that are in pretty good shape. For instance, I purchased a Castlevania Legends in a bundle, which ended up being in near-perfect shape. I mean, REALLY nice and it's a legit copy.
I started collecting to both have a good quality cart collection AND to play through the entire original GB library. Now, having carts in great shape, valued at multiple hundreds of dollars, I feel like I shouldn't even stick the thing in my GBA because, you know... insertion scratches.
So, I agree. "Good" condition carts are the way to go, if you're a game player.