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| wiggy:
Typical NA excessive bullshit drama for no good reason. I almost never use the term "get a life", but here it definitely needs to be said. |
| larryinc64:
Pat on the CU podcast fallowed it (also has one of the signs now) |
| Megatron:
I actually think the whole story is pretty funny. Glad to know there are more of these things out there. Not that I'll ever own one, but I hate the douche bags who drive up market value deliberately, so it's nice to see them sweat. |
| Shadow_Zero:
--- Quote from: TDIRunner on May 12, 2016, 11:57:52 AM --- You've got a lot of reading to do if you want to get caught up on this story. http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=159716 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=161589 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=161776 --- End quote --- That is indeed a lot of reading! I did some reading, but I don't quite comprehend it all. Can someone give me a summary? Is atwoodtm the good guy or bad guy? (seems like a good guy, but he and his wife are banned from NA...??) But yeah, this is getting kind of a problem. A collector wants to expands his collection, but with the increasing amount of resellers you'll have to pay big bucks for it. So what do you do when you sell something from your own collection? (trading would be a marvellous solution, but also not that easy/practical). |
| Megatron:
The short version... This guy (Atwood) is a long time collector and has a ridiculous collection of sealed in box games, including several shipping boxes (6 games in each) that are still sealed. He enjoys the hobby and doesn't really brag about his collection. Lately, some of the top dogs of collecting have been doing shady dealings (such as buying several copies of rare games) in order to drive up the value of games like Stadium Events, Bonk, Dinosaur Peak, etc. Atwood has called these guys out before and basically feels games shouldn't be an investment. At least not when you're buying 20 copies of an already rare game so you can bump up the resell price. Having had enough, Atwood stated that he will sell some of his mighty collection - flooding the market with these super rare and expensive games. Now "flooded" is a generous term, but when only, say, 15 sealed copies of Stadium Events are known to exist, and this guy introduces 12 more into the market, the value on this game (as well as the open box version) is going to drop considerably. It will still cost a fortune, but significantly less than what they are going for now, meaning flippers may not make back the thousands they invested. As for why he has been banned, my guess is it was because he pissed off the elitists who run the NA forums. I think one of them is someone Atwood has called out in the past for this type of stuff. Anyway, I don't know if the guy is a hero or an asshole, but he sounds awesome, and I would love to check out this guy's house just to see this stuff with my own eyes. |
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