Reminder to laugh at "video game collectors"

Reminder to laugh at "video game collectors"

It's not really worth that though, is it. It's l made up numbers.

based customs

lol. owned

As funny as it is to laugh at this guy, is there no sort of recourse for this?

What's wrong with collecting video games as opposed to other items like stamps or cars?

I suspect that the customs agent who did that comprehends the sealed video game market perfectly. If I was in his place I'd destroy every one of those things too.

Arent you supposed to enjoy stuff because it has value to you? What does it matter what happens to it after you get it, is it suddenly more valuable to you if others say its worth a lot of money?

Its *almost* as if collectors only collect things for its monetary value and possible future trades/reselling

I don't think i payed more than $70 for a single game...

Based as fuck, man children getting owned!

all money is made up numbers.

Tendies deserve everything coming their way

This is antisemitic

Does this guy have any recourse? Can he file a complaint with customs or will the online marketplace he used offer him a refund?

I suspect that the customs agent who did that thought the game was crummy

Nothing's wrong with collecting games, it's people who collect games that hate this fucking scam the most. Thanks to these grifters and their fake auctions, retarded bagholders have ruined thrift stores and flea markets as ways to get old games, they snap them up and resell them for absolutely retarded prices.

take it to the right person

that'll be $3,000 plus tip

ok, here you go

Sounds like it's worth $3,000 to me, brainlet.

DIS HERE BOX SAYS IT GOT $3000 VALUE IN DER

OPEN IT UP SHANIQUA LETS SEE IT

ITS JUST SOME POKEMAN GAME FUCK THIS SHIT YO

stop trusting gubment gibs customs inspectors with your possessions. they either steal shit or get off on destroying private property on technicalities

Fuck poketards but it is pretty scummy how customs can just tear up your shit because they think you might be hiding contraband within. Are there really no safer methods they could use?

Usually based is a tranny used word but
Yes based.

erm it's actually based on the amount of gold that your country owns plus a series of factors like external and domestic debt

shut the fuck you tankie bastard

By cars do you mean toy cars or actual cars?

Can you sue customs retards for doing shit like that?

game comes out of customs opened and ruined

rage about it online

get depressed

fire up the game to get your mind off it

there's already a save file on it called ASS

Hello, 1972.

Suing over a 3000 dollar loss? You'd pay way more than that in lawyer's fees.

youtube.com/watch?v=Lbdij5Vi8oY
famous hack frauds red letter media made a pretty good breakdown on the VHS version of this plastic sealed graded cheap consumer item speculation scam (which was started by the same people, the same way)

Actual cars

You can only be reimbursed if the property was damaged by “negligent behavior” which no judge will ever agree to because ripping shit open to look for drugs is a necessary part of their job.

wrong, it's "worth" it to mentally ill retards that have more wealth than brains

"le heckin' based" faggotry aside
customs are fucking retards and thieves

Next time just mail that shit to yourself. Don't bring expensive items with you through customs

triforce shirt

Expeditiously removed from my watch history.

probably not
what this ultimately means though is
1) eric whiteback is a retard paying $3000 for a jpeg on cardboard
2) the collector's website he bought it from is also a retard for the following reason:

if US customs is ripping into your parcel to make sure there's not a fucking bomb in it or anything, the reported value of the item was quite high, meaning he paid $3000 for it and the collector's site reported its monetary value as $3000. there was no need for this. chinese tat from aliexpress and temu is under *less* scrutiny than this.

I thought that only rich people collect cars?

because some people actually want to play the game in the original hardware and all instead of letting it rot in a shelf or use purely as trade currency.

Why collect something you apparently hate enough to seal it away?

Are there really no safer methods they could use?

yes. everything that goes through is automatically put through sniffer dogs, metal detectors, drugs detectors, everything. the only reason US customs would have a legitimate reason to open your package is:
- the value clearly isnt the same as the contents (e.g. a $1 10kg box)
- it set off an alarm or sniffer dog
- the address is on a watchlist
the person who opened this was looking for something to steal. no 2 ways about it

Destroying objects of value is what Lord Moloch wants. All of human history has been leading up to the ultimate act of evil: the complete and utter destruction of all existence, for no other reason than "Because."

Nah, I'd be losing my shit if the goverment just decided to comb through my shit for no reason
Retard if I bought something new and unopened, I expect it to arrive to me in that state

And they have x ray machines so I can see him having a good case they just destroyed it for the fuck of it

buy a game with zero intention of playing it

nande

in b4 muh investment

lmao

Sue for $3000+fees, genius

Yeah, probably thought Eric should've been importing pails of water

The reason is pointless, petty destruction. You don't need any reason to commit evil deeds except "Because I can, and because they can't stop me." That is how you demonstrate that you have power over other people: by making them suffer for your sick, twisted amusement.

oy vey

You don't understand how this scam works. retard didn't buy a sealed copy of pokemon yellow that he can't even play for $3000, next to nobody on the planet is that dumb. He found an unopened boxed copy of pokemon yellow somehow (or took a played copy with the box and sealed it in fresh cellophane) and paid a few hundred bucks for some scam artist ""grading service"" to seal it in plastic and tell him it's worth $3000, so he could list it on ebay and then be shocked when nobody buys it for $3000, and customs ripped it open when they sent it back to him, probably because a high valued sealed gameboy game rightly seemed suspicious to them.

You could file a compliant with their supervisor and see if they would reimburse the value of it. Or if you have insurance for that they would cover it.

The main thing is you would have to show that A. Their organization is one that caused its damage, and B. The item is in fact worth $3000.

be airport security wagie

see some dumb toy in a glass case like its hot shit

rip it open because bomb maybe lol

nothin white boy can do about it

Lord Moloch laughs raucously

This, back in the early 2010s collecting old nintendo stuff or shit like pokemon cards or yugioh was actually affordable because it was a niche hobby. but ever since normies and especially since these retarded investment tourists crept in theyve made the hobby shit and unaffordable to most people. The worst part is a lot of them probably dont have any attachment to Pokemon or whatever outside of having watched a few episodes of the anime when they were kids or being a normie playing through red version once using Charizard, and only see these old games and cards as get rich quick schemes. I will absolutely celebrate these people getting fucked for ruining a chill hobby for the rest of us.

wrong board, champ?

Insure high value items, don't be a retard like this guy

Everything is worth what people are willing to pay for it

Every board is the right board to spread the bad word of Lord Moloch, the insane demon god who hates everything good.

This was a $3,000 game

I paid like $40 for it new though?

- the value clearly isnt the same as the contents (e.g. a $1 10kg box)

So you agree the customs was justified in this case? 3000$ is way too much value for some video game

clown market

there's nothing good about speculation scams that ruin hobbies. the wagies destroying this jewish trickery were doing the lord's work. see and

Based, Americans deserve nothing but financial doom.

ultimately this, parasites wanting money money money over anything at the cost of anything arent humans.
i remember the NFT craze and people spaming nft versions of old mmos and all those zombies flooding it, disgusting.

Look at the world we live in and tell me what makes more sense: a kind, caring, merciful god who loves us all and wants us to be happy, or a spiteful, malicious, petty god who hates us all and wants us to be miserable?

nope

God bless emulation

Sadly.

not really
people often send gold, jewellery, rare art etc with high values in relatively small packages
the only time suspicion would be justified is if the value is meant to be below the threshold for customs charges

NOOOO THEY SHOULD LET ME TRANSPORT UNIDENTIFIED ITEMS IN A TIGHTLY SEALED CONTAINTER BECAUSE...

THEY JUST SHOULD OK?!?!?!

desu theres a bunch of awful thing over the internet and all but overall life is pretty chill but family had a really hard time some 50-100 years ago while i did hardly any physical labor and make good money fiddling the keyboard+mouse at home.

Paying $3000 for a game that sold 15 million units

Just to not play it and have it sit in a case

Pokémon Yellow is not rare, it isn't even particularly good, and this retard wasn't even going to play it. Next time save yourself the trouble and just print out a PNG if you want to look at the boxart that much.

A blind uncaring universe with no deity or at least not one that takes a personal interest in us. The world we live in is of our own making.

pngs won't get you facebook likes and reddit upvotes

there could have been fentanyl inside of that

Well, enjoy it while it lasts, because you won't have time to relax in the coming hellscape.

Ever since the gold standard was dropped, yes. That's how the stock market lost over $10 trillion a few months ago and already recovered it.

Get a flash cart so you're still playing the game on original hardware. Plus you could have every game ever released for it

Would these people buy sealed games if they didn't cost thousands of dollars?
I doubt there'd be many buyers for sealed Pokemon games if they only cost like a 100 bucks a piece

plus tip

Kill yourself

They DO understand people pay absurd amount for merch. They just think it's retarded and do their jobs.

hahaha yeah
Fuck you Nixon.

I really gotta start selling my old plastic. It's pointless i just emulate these days

dont know man, some fakes are really convincing, the level of fake make people open the cart to investigate the pcb and all.
nah, shin megami tensei isnt real.
i did that too but you know the original cart is nicer to have with the manuals and all.

There's got to be some way to avoid this. When big companies ship collectors' items and such out to customers I assume they do so with the assurance customs isn't going to destroy them looking for cocaine.

this shit is infuriating
same kind of idiot that ripped open my suitcase a few years ago
apparently I should've known that these assholes are legally allowed to vandalize my shit
got a new suitcase with one of those tsa locks, but feels like I'm kneeling down to suck their cocks
fuck this shit

do you also believe in santa claus

His tax dollars funds this

Cold Take: Games exist to be played.

Also the battery was dead anyways. I'd rather have a refurbished copy.

Welcome to capitalism 101

As somebody who was priced out of quite a few Gamecube games I wanted to physically own and play during the pandemic lockdowns, the problem with "collecting video games" is largely due to the fact manchild video game Youtubers like AVGN and Pat the NES Punk convinced an entire generation to collect every single game released for a given game console even the shitty games nobody would ever want to own let alone play. This shit then spilled over into virtually every console generation besides NES to the point that the many manchild gamer bro Youtubers that AVGN and Pat the NES Punk inspired have continued this speculatory grift persuading the next generation of gamers that owning a brand new copy of pic-related will somehow pay off in dividends decades from now...supposedly.

Anyway, the point being that for those of us who would like to get into retro gaming, let alone physically own a few games for a given console, buying even a USED copy of (x) will run you just as much as the cost of a brand new current year triple A game if not moreso again all because video game "collectors" are insistent that because AVGN reviewed "Roadkill Skunk 2000" for Sega Saturn once upon a time, its totally worth more than the ten bucks its actually worth all things considered.

No but a package like that should have absolutely been insured

woops, wrong pic

It's not chinese gacha NFTs so this board hates it

Nobody paid $3000
This is the core of the scam and how they get morons to pay to have games sealed in 25 cent acrylic shells. Dipshits like you see GAME VALUED AT $3000 and think somebody's actually willing to pay that much for a copy of fucking pokemon yellow that they can't even play, and then some of you who think that, happen to have access to or find a boxed copy of the game, and send it to the guys who run both the grading service and the auction site, and pay them hundreds of dollars to tell you 'yeah bro that's worth thousands you're gonna be rich bro thanks for the $500 (muffled laughter)' and then you put it up on ebay and nobody buys it. Or in this case you don't even get to that step because the customs niggers ripped it to shreds for giggles because even those sheboons know ain't no way a gameboy game is worth $3000

"US customs"
was this on a flight?
Would have been better for him to have posted it to his own home address?
Or did they go though his mail?

This sealed game and WATA rating shit is incredibly stupid and all, but was it really necessary to cut the front of the box like that?

This would be the ideal way to transport drugs or explosive devices, to pretend it is some sort of super valuable thing that cannot be opened. Cope.

i didnt know the nursing home allowed Anon Babble

Funny how "video game collectors" mostly seem to center around nintendo

trannies don't say based, where did you get that? "based" is a real man's word.

is there even any proof that this guy didn't destroy his copy for social media clout?

trannies don't say based

bro is getting mad the trannies like action-figures too

based

actually based is said by a nigger, ironic isnt it.

I'm not mad. Just correcting your dumb ass, based is a hyperborean, sneed feed and seed warrior term

sliced the front of the box off

For what purpose? Was there no other way to get inside?

What the fuck gives this shit value other than people simply saying it has said value? Like what makes a sealed video game cartridge from 20 years ago worth $3000?

Dunno the whole game fits in like a single image.

convinced an entire generation to collect every single game released for a given game console even the shitty games

Only the Nintendo consoles though, simply because most other consoles are basically impossible to do fullsets on.
PS2 USA and PS1 USA are the most attainable PlayStation collections and even those have very very few collectors for it.
PS2 PAL is basically impossible due to garbage shovelware with like a dozen known copies and also infinite regional variants, PS2 JAP has way way too many variants to even catalogue properly and also loads of weird limited releases, PS1 PAL and NTSC-J are filled with garbage shovelware that doesn't even have Mobygames or Pricecharting pages, PSP is just a mess for even knowing what released when and where, Every region of PS3 has games that sold like ten thousand copies total, PS Vita and PS4 have tons of limited releases of indie games and shovelware with like a thousand copies total.
Meanwhile in Sega land you've got games that only have a few known copies, and loads and loads of japanese mail order exclusive shit.
What this ends up meaning is that there's PS2 PAL releases that had a total print run of 25k copies not managing to sell on online marketplaces for even 5 bucks a pop, and meanwhile there's Mario Kart games that sold tens of millions of units going for 40 bucks loose in fucked up condition. Rarity has nothing to do with value.

Graded game cases always seemed retarded to me, same as graded unopened packs of cards.

When you import something from another country through the mail it's liable to go through customs for extra inspection separate from your mail carrier. I'm not American but the one time I had my parcel opened by customs it was because the price declaration was high for what it was.
A $3000 video game is going to set off alarms and those grading cases are basically impossible to reopen without destroying them. Slicing the box like that was just an extra fuck you though lol.

funny how?

Nothing, assuming you plan to play the games you collect
Same goes for cars, but stamps get an exception because they get destroyed in the process of using them

This is why we have to do the least possible at work.

you are fucking retarded.

How are those auctions going for you, bagholder?

the world

not being littered with many gods all trying to uphold the primordial truth

yeah just like peepee poopoo pepes and wojaks from Anon Babble would make sure they never escaped Anon Babble containment too

not all drugs or explosive devices show up on xrays
if they still have doubts about the safety of the item they are well within their rights to disassemble it as much as required to thoroughly ensure that the article is safe to pass through
He has no recourse, he is simply out $3000.

Because most people who do it are posers and are only interested in making money off other people's hobby.

They aren’t going to waste the time to look for the right way to open a package when it’s 1) literally a $0.05 piece of cardboard 2) they won’t get in any trouble and 3) the sender was stupid enough to not realize customs can and will open up anything you send.

and how they get morons to pay

Who's they?

you can't open the inconspicuous package because UGH... you just CAN'T!

Bro keeps shilling Heartgold as the best pokemon game ever

Fine lets see how much it is

In 2021 the cheapest one I found was 200 bucks without the box

Find an emulator online for free and play it on my phone

Wasn't a bad game, but fuck these faggots and their gay little "collections"

Tendies deserve it

idk why people get upset when someone points this out. Money doesn't actually exist, it's just a bunch ink on paper or some 1s and 0s on a computer screen

The scam artists who "grade" and seal video games and VHS tapes and whatever in plastic for a few hundred dollars. WATA or whatever.

Gold

not according to the person who bought it

because it's a nothing statement. No one thinks money is a physical thing, it's a quantifier of value to facilitate trade.

Nobody bought it for $3,000 though

Why?

But before they pumped up the market with grading there was still a high demand and high value placed on those items.

It would be funny if this is how he found out the game+box were counterfeit and worthless anyways
Some of these 'repros' are basically indistinguishable from real copies nowadays, enough to fool graders even (and I suspect the graders are in on it too)
after all, you're taking their word that it's actually worth as much as they say and genuine, what are you gonna do, open the sealed box and destroy the value to check?
there is an extremely high likelyhood that many of these collector graded copies are repro fakes and none of these collectortards are aware large swathes of their collection are likely worthless

No there wasn't, actually. There were only a handful of old cartridge games with any notable auction value, because of their rarity. Mostly games in popular series that had minimal distribution due to coming out at the end of the console's lifespan, like Ninja Gaiden 3 or Megaman X3

Not that anon but by that logic they should rip open literally everything. The potentiometers in my electric guitar could be blasting caps and the glue around the truss rod could be C4. There's nothing bomb-y about a GB cart. It's a cracker-sized board with a few chips and a watch battery.

I once ordered some fencing equipment shortly before a tournament from a guy overseas.
Fucking customs opened up my packet of a dozen items, took the ONE FUCKING ITEM I NEEDED TO PASS THE SAFETY CHECK AT THE TOURNAMENT out, and NEVER FUCKING PUT IT BACK IN.

Later, I ordered some shit from ali, it was nothing but random household items like organizers, display shelves, car organizers...and a cheap pair of crotchless stockings (not for me, I swear), when that shit went through customs It took them THREE WEEKS to clear it, and when I finally got my package, guess what was fucked with?

Meanwhile homeland security keeps sneaking packages through no problem during their system tests.
FUCK those people, fucking useless cows the lot of them.

He can file a claim, but it will likely not be taken seriously

If they weren't allowed to do this drug dealers would just put everything in these manchild boxes.

There are no such collectortards. Go fucking find some manbaby with a bunch of awkwardly sealed games on his shelf that he paid thousands of dollars each for, I dare you. The only people with them are the speculators who paid to have them graded, and they're all sitting in boxes waiting for somebody to actually bid on it on ebay, and the games are just as worthless whether they're real or fake.

Based

They could do that. They often do that. Customs are worse thieves than the taxmen.

reported for antisemitism outside Anon Babble

I'm not saying it's physical either, I'm saying the abstract value we give it isn't actually real. It really is just ink on paper, it only has value because we believe it does

If you find the right person you can get ass fucked for probably 10k bucks. But you would gladly do it for free any time any day of the week. So how much is your ass worth? Absolutely nothing.

BURP! GOD ISN'T REA, M-MORTY!

how come customs doesn't just put everything through the scanning machines like they have at airports...
wouldn't that be significantly faster, more reliable and less damaging than cutting into everything or cutting into things at random?

You have to be retarded to pay $3000 for a game that you can get for like $25 rn across multiple platforms... Assuming you even pay for it to begin with.

"B-But, the original ite-

IT DOESN'T AND SHOULDN'T COST $3000!!!, YOU ARE GETTING SCAMMED!!!

buy an unsellable item at vastly inflated price.

I smell money laundering.

Because the people here are miserable, but desperately seek happiness, so when they see another person fail it reminds them that their situation isn't entirely their own fault, and that brings them joy.

sealed retro pokemon carts are also rare, just not by limited distribution. There's a huge market for older pokemon merchandise

They are doing random probes since they are not searching for anything specific. Airport scanners are calibrated to look for specific things.

Good to know. I've only travelled locally and the airport popos were fairly hands off.
Thanks anon.

What's worse is that the absolute retard could have bought fresh new components and even printed the box art accuratedly yet separatedly and then assembled everything including inserting the game file in the cartridge after having bought the game through a virtual platform as that gives him the right to emulate it (assuming he cares of the legality of it) so not only did he got scammed by some foreigner, he scammed himself first by making himself believe that Pokemon fucking Yellow is worth $3k buckaroos.

literally the best-selling games of the best-selling consoles ever

rare

Funnily enough, it's the people trying to sell some imaginary collector a pokemon game they can't play for $3,000 who are getting scammed, by the companies telling them that somebody will buy that piece of shit for such a ludicrous price if they only pay to have it graded and sealed.
Nope. You're right that people like buying old Pokemon stuff, but go look on ebay right now, the most expensive auctions for Pokemon games that actually have any bids are refurbished cartridges with fresh batteries for 50 bucks or so. The sealed games just sit there, listed for months or years with a few people watching, probably out of curiosity to see if anybody actually buys the thing, but 0 bids.

The reason why I don't kill myself? Because me being alive makes the world a worse place.

This is just a normal thing to do. I remember ripping those NES-GBA boxes to play the game as a kid and regretting it today.

that's the joke, price tags like the one on the OP are completely worthless for low liquidity products, since they don't have a strong supply-demand relationship that dictates their worth

Yeah people bought them all up. A new unopened copy of pokemon red and blue are hard to come by. Just like older unopened booster boxes of Pokemon TCG.

nintendo made 4 or 5 copies of pokemon red and blue for every man, woman and child on earth in 1996. Entire shipping crates of new unopened copies flood the market every time a mismanaged toys r us goes out of business and they auction off all the old stock that's been collecting dust in a corner of their warehouse for 30 years. There are 400 listings for 'pokemon red boxed' active on ebay right now.

Remember to laugh at cucks who doesn't own physical games instead.

Everybody on twitter and shitddit use that buzzword for years now, dumbass.

based customs

Yeah, based for spending tax payer money to reimburse someone for a fucking video game.
If they destroyed something with a value of 3k they will get fucked over for it.

you know it's just... funny

Games should be played not put in cuck boxes collectors are just nft bros

Even if there was, customs would pay what it's actually worth, not the $3000 he paid for it.

reimburse

If you think anyone’s getting reimbursed you’re the dumbest person in this thread by a mile.

the GDP of Ghana is rotting in some New Jersey warehouse as we speak right now

be legal resident of US

government legally allowed to break your shit as you fly home

Why do people still live in the US? Why not sell your collectible shit and live literally anywhere else?

If it was unboxed customchads would have busted open the cart.

a chunk of cardboard with a 27 year old gameboy cartridge inside is worth 3000 dollars because it has the plastic seal

I will never understand this.

How many times does it need to be said, he didn't pay $3000 for it. He had an unopened copy of pokemon yellow and sent it to a scam artist grading company that put it in a plastic shell and TOLD HIM it's now worth $3000 dollars.

you now understand it. be grateful.

v was based on this day

No, what I don't understand is why anyone would pay that much for something like this. I don't care if this guy paid that money, I'm talking about the general concept.
The only reason I could see for buying this at 3 grand is to later sell it at 4 or 5 grand to an even bigger retard.

I just searched pokemon red sealed on ebay with a minimum $50 price parameter and there were only 22 actual listings of sealed pokemon red copies. Searching pokemon red unopened had even less results. If you know where to buy a sealed pokemon red from somewhere else let me know so I can flip it for a couple grand.

The only reason I could see for buying this at 3 grand is to later sell it at 4 or 5 grand to an even bigger retard.

ding ding ding ding

you are now qualified to become a collector

I'd sell off all of my video game shit if I could but it doesn't seem worth the effort

They wouldn't. Nobody does that.
The retards are the ones sending ancient video games to a company that seals it in a plastic shell for 100 bucks or so and tells them it's worth thousands of dollars now.
Quick question: When you were looking at the listings of sealed pokemon red copies in the stupid plastic shells with a starting price of thousands, did you see any of them with any bids? Even a single one?

JUST LIKE DONT LET IT INFLATE

Just sell stuff in a batch.

There weren't any up for auction, graded or not

Ah yes.. Direct sale listings that sit there on ebay for years and years with no activity. The sign of a real hot ticket item.

Let's not go that far. Customs workers are definitely still awful.

government destroying private property

:|

government destroying private property, nintendo

:O

Sure it's funny in this case where some retard who thinks a copy of Pokemon Yellow can be resold for $3,000 but it's pretty shitty how government employees can just damage anyone's property under the guise of security just because there's a 1 in a million chance someone is carrying weed for personal use or something.

Inflation is real easy to reduce.
Reduce the number of people.

To be fair, most people collecting are usually looking for historic games from a time that was heavily dominated by Nintendo, I think it's less that people are biased toward Nintendo games and more just that they are a kind of common denominator. I think many collectors have mostly games from other studios or platforms but most of them have some Nintendo games.

Nevermind, I just watched the video. Good Lord, those guys need help.

mouthbreathing 90 iq manchildren aren't going to soiface about sealed copies of necrodome or jill of the jungle

if they're not looking for anything specific, then why are they looking at all?
What isn't detected on the airport scanners that they don't want smuggled in? why can't they have the airport scanner, and then the belt runs like an assembly line into other scanners that are tunned for other things, like even smells?

retard

the video game isn't worth 3k dollars.
you just paid 3k dollars.

the game is worthless, since I can just emulate it. it's only worth whatever time i spend to download it.

You can just easily look this up

you never know, mexicans might start packing fentanyl powder in to gameboy cartridge shape with a similar density to plastic and send them across the border in fake graded game boxes, as a cover for why they're sealed in multiple layers of plastic that'll stop chemical sniffers from finding it.

Things that didnt happen

it challenges the system that ive learned to exploit. that mindset is a threat to me.

If I worked customs I would do this shit all the time lmao
Get fucked perceived cost cucks

if you want me to lose any sympathy for you just start bitching about muh private property
it's the most antisocial bitch nigger kind of argument every time, instead of making any kind of case for why something is good or bad you're just punting to "ummm but how is it your business, it belongs to someone else"

That's not ebay. That's the totally real and totally not a scam auction site directly associated with the grading company WATA, which is why the prestigious and totally trustworthy grading company that graded the game appears in the listings - all us collectors totally trust the pedigree of the gameboy game grading experts at WATA after all.

sure looks like ebay

what is the context for this
why would you buy so many cards, and then take them back to a hotel
what kind of situation would lead to this faggotry

lmfao casefag crying

I will resell it for more than it cost me one day.

Enjoy your 50 dollars and 45 cents profit after 20 years

50 dollars plus 20 years of inflation may be something like 10,000 dollars at the rate we're going. I'll take it.

aftermath of a pokemon card armored truck heist

You think it's a good thing that cops and border agents can just randomly pick out people who've done nothing wrong and just destroy things they paid money for even when there's no probable cause of a crime being committed? To me that seems like more antisocial behaviour, having class of people that think they're allowed to just bully the general populace and get away with it.

no seller or location info

dark theme

not ebay

SAAR

I think preying on collection autism is antisocial and should be suppressed by the state desu
I don't really respond to "ummm you have a class of people who can oppress others???" like yes nigga that is what a state is and I think if you try to scam people into paying multiple thousands of dollars for a ROM then you should be oppressed by the agents of the state

NTA but it's too close to not be eBay.
eBay phone app has a dark theme and doesn't show seller name in search results, I just checked it. However, on my app it does show the location. But it's just so close to the eBay format and layout, it's got to be a difference between Android/iPhone version or a regional thing. The burden of proof has to fall on you for this supposed WATA-associated website, we need a link.

why are retards trying to make this a jab at the jews when leftists actually believe this

Why not just have that stuff because you like it and it's cool
Every desktop browser has a dark mode extension also, they have for fifteen years

I do have it because I like it and it's cool and it's a relatively liquid asset.

because antisemitism necessarily includes an element of anticapitalism
jews have used both socialism and capitalism to their benefit but they do truly thrive under capitalism (which is why the national socialists, contrary to popular belief, had a fundamentally socialist economic theory and only worked with the national bourgeoisie in what they saw as the short term)

yeah and by then a burger will cost 5000 dollars
are you retarded

Leftists believe it. Jews make it mandatory global law.

Man, fuck customs. They literally opened a sealed mtg box i bought once and even a booster pack inside it for whatever fucking reason. It didn't matter everything was clearly factory sealed or that it was a shipment from Amazon and not some random ebay seller.
At least they didn't steal any card.

Then I can buy 2 more burgers than I would have been able to. Also you can't really into math if you think that tracks with the ratios I put forth in the prior post.

Except it's not usually scammers who are affected by these policies retard. It's usually people who just want to bring food home from holiday or bring a sentimental item like a teddy bear that end up having their money wasted and personal items destroyed because big daddy government says 1 event half a century ago means all of a sudden everyone needs to be punished. If you think that's ok then I hope security tears your suitcase apart the next time you go on holiday.

I love gaymers realizing their pieces of cardboard don't actually mean anything

lmao you're such a faggot

based
I denounce the talmud

i don't think i've even spent $3000 on videogames total.

The Jews are...LE BAD

Love how you can immediately tell a thread is infested with Palestine-loving trannies, lol.

You're Jewish which is an immediate DQ

I of course opened every single pack afterwards, like i intended to. My point is that customs didn't care the shit was factory sealed and tore it open. It being cardboard, a book or a phone is irrelevant.

Hope Goldberg sees it, Andeet

I'm a faggot because I think governments shouldn't go around fucking with other people's stuff for no good reason? Good one. Maybe if you stop being such a bootlicker for one minute you'll be able to think up a better argument than "lmao you're such a faggot".

As opposed to you, who has nothing but the mental illness and retardation

you approve of the state doing something good? what about them doing something BAD?

ummmmm but GOVERNMENT!

yeah you should kill yourself

out of curiosity are you yourself a collector/scammer, or are you engaged in some other kind of antisocial activity that you don't want to be punished

Nooo they shouldn't use the $150,000 xray machines the government paid for

They are, but they're not responsible for people being completely irrational about materialistic objects that have no inherent value.

It's worth vidya gold. That means it's intrinsically worthless money

t.

Anon Babbleraelis on suicide watch rn

they're certainly responsible when they take advantage of those people
as an american, what did i win
certainly not a whiter country

implying you can be antisemitic on the paperwork and origami board

What am I missing?

No American gives a proper shit about shit-skinned muzzies. Trannies do, though.

the only one winning is China

also lol lmao enjoy your ground invasion and massive casualties (again) if you want to actually get the palestinians out
i LOVE watching kikes die
t. american

you are jewish

put game in classic game in plastic case

add $2550 to the price

I wish I'd thought of this scam.

No, I'm not a collector/scammer or engaged in antisocial activity. Do you think the only people who have issues with government overstep are secretly criminal masterminds? I've seen enough videos of people just minding their own business in their cars or homes where the government makes up BS reasons to intrude and end up shooting them to know they aren't to be trusted.

Now answer my question. out of curiosity to you genuinely believe all the laws the government makes up in the name of public safety (monitoring calls, social media accounts, entering homes under the guise of public safety) are actually helping society or are they just giving the government more power over innocent people?

when they take advantage of those people

eventually the fault lies on the retard being scammed rather than the scammer

So if I grab a random cheap ass GB game, change the cover to Pokemon Yellow cover and put a acrylic holder on it can I sell it for 3k bucks?

You're not supposed to say that

I hate Paki's and Jew's.

It's almost like both are just expressions of prole resentment towards successful people.

Not trying to take customs side here. I don't trust them and have sued (and won) on several occasions, but you need to clearly mark the packaging, along with producing appropriate documentation with the item in transit. It doesn't sound like the plastic collector did this.

yeah actually, pretty much, i view your race as a hostile/predatory group whose strategy is to parasitize on mine, including but not limited to doing so by attaining success under capitalism
the fact that capitalism is so vulnerable to your race is an indictment of the system

the retard bears some level of responsibility but ultimately less because you can't trust a retard not to be retarded
you also can't prevent retards from existing but you can prevent scammers from scamming, or at least increase the costs/risks of doing so

negligent behavior

It's not always about neglect as there are many different types of tort.

Intentional torts

Intentional torts rely on the allegation that the tortfeasor committed an act and knew, or should have known, that the act would result in damages.

Strict liability

In both tort and criminal law, strict liability exists when a defendant is liable for committing an action, regardless of their intent or mental state when committing the action

Even trespassing includes ones PROPERTY, it's not just land or a house.
It can mean a handbag, luggage or personal possessions.

He could absolutely sue for the first one, there is no condition or provider that states customs have rights to demolish property like that. Not even under suspicion of like a bomb or something, they have containers to deal with that shit.
A simple xray would have shown there is nothing in that box other than a plastic game cart with a battery.
There was no need to disregard someones possessions and destroy it like a caveman.

Either the customs person was a boomer that just hates everyone or some salty cunt that knew what it was and just wanted to destroy its value.
Regardless, it should have been insured, i'm sure the insurance company suits will have a field day getting their money back.

Okay but why did they boxcutter the front of the fucking box off instead of just, like, opening it normally?

Collecting stamps doesn't really harm anyone. People hording old games in retarded quantities makes playing authentic copies way more expensive than it would otherwise be.

You can even sue them if they don't do shit like that. You could sue them right now.

You can't download a car

Is there any chance all this ranking stuff isn't just market manipulation? With TCG cards and all the 9.8s they put out, it's hard to imagine it's actually based on an organic metric.

laziness, I've seen them do similar things to books of historical significance. You get what you pay for with these people, and you're generally not paying for intelligence.

Good lad, you can sue anyone if you hire the right lawyer. Just because there are protections in place to protect someone does not mean that there aren't ways around them.

It would be easier to open it the regular way though. You can just swipe the little sticker off and it slides out with one cut - as opposed to doing FOUR cuts

t would be easier to open it the regular way though.

Yes, but you are a intelligent individual that is thinking critically.

True, didnt consider that

yeah, €90 was the most i ever paid and that was for CIB CE SotN 15 years ago. now everyone's charging like €200 for Klonoa or Tomba or MML or whatever and despite making dough i no longer feel like collectan.

This isn't even unique to tcgs or video games. This whole investment idea has taken over basically every single collection hobby. Vinyl is especially bad with it. Comics have had this problem for ages. This whole idea of making a return on something instead of just enjoying the hobby is killing hobbies. Vinyl used to be affordable. Now it's not.

Pirateniggers and collectorfaggots are the equivalent of right-wing/left-wing extremists

One cannot perceive the value of games at all.
The other is obsessed with the value of games.

wow, you're so centrist! such smarties!

Well yeah... I don't autistically seal games and inflate the prices, but I also.. y'know, don't steal

threw

I can just imagine the conversation they had before customs decided that this dude was a retard and smashed his box open.

Participating in an international pyramid scheme, 3,000 buckarinos down the drain. Not like he needed it. Maybe dont smuggle contraband into the USA bucko.

well deserved

3000 game

Most likely means he never played it then.

God, I fucking hate scalpers.

Evil, filthy Hew detected

Not anymore LMAO

Oh shit, fuck time to watch China IL again

Piratechads unironically win yet again

I think they can do it randomly too. I import from Japan all the time. Only once had a package came to me clearly rummaged through. The inside was extremely disorganized, package and the package looked hastily resealed. Thankfully nothing was damaged. I didn't have anything in there listed at a high price, so not sure what else would have triggered them to search it.

And all language is made up words, what’s your point

gold is definitely relevant so i'm on your side anon
other precious metals held by the state, as well as military and industrial power and control of international financial and political institutions, also matter. in fact i'd say they're more important in the overall picture, but china wouldn't be buying gold if it didn't matter at all

no game cart in picture

The seller destroyed it.

it sucks but why not check in advance?

What a rip-off! I only paid $15 for my copy of FireRed!

do they at least kiss you if they fuck you that hard?

i found a copy of that at a thrift store for $3 one time

That's even more retarded why not send it to be graded in the US (if hes in the US otherwise just send it to be graded anywhere else) and avoid any risk of it ever going through customs?

Why does every single liberal faggot type the same way?

LEAF

also you bought a revocable digital license to play the game, not a copy of the game itself, friendo :^)

nintendo

pokemon

niche

You’re a retard.

No sympathy for Pokemon cucks. They are drones with no standards who literally vote for slop with their wallet.

They’re scalpers. They go around buying everything they can to resell on eBay for 10x

person interviews people waiting in line for Pokemon cards

asks them their favorite Pokemon

one guy doesn't even know and has to call his friend to get told what it is

It is a weird time. I don't get why they even care. Most of them must be losing hundreds of dollars if they accounted for time, gas money, money spent vs profit, etc.

So... collecting these things is basically pointless? I don't get it.

Most of them must be losing hundreds of dollars if they accounted for time, gas money, money spent vs profit, etc.

If they actually were business-savvy then they wouldn't be speculating on fucking children's card games.

MONEY BROS NOT LIKE THIS

you've never met a redneck

thats not a $3000 game, thats a $3000 collectible

I was in my local indie used game store and overheard a discussion between a guy and his girlfriend debating whether to buy a copy of Crystal for $100 or whatever it was, and the argument he used was about how the price is only going up and how it's a great investment. That's when it clicked for me that these people don't care about or play games, they're in it to rip off gamers.

The difference was taken by the government via central banks.

If i was loaded i would do this constantly and document it.

because America is the #1 destination for drug smugglers. Lucky you that you don't have entire nations whose economy is based on poisoning your population to death.

Imagining a guy working there just saying "What is this shit" and just absolutely destroying it is hilarious. Feel bad for the OP, though.

It's literally more work to cut the face of the box off than it is to just tear the top open like a child though.

'capitalism' is a slur literally invented by a Jew to demonize white European society.

Based is a nigger word, it was coined by a nigger african american rapper negroman. Real men reply "based on what?" to the grammatically incorrect nigger usage

both are le bad sweetie

Why yes, ignorance of law is no defense
Why would it be?

everyones a nigger on the internet.

its just like the vaccines, slowly turning people more and more into cattle

because the scammers that are telling these retards their "sealed box copy" of pokemon piss yellow aren't based in the US. that's why.

el oh el!

I was at an anime convention today. $320 for HeartGold, CIB.

Two years ago, I paid the equivalent of $40 for the same game from a used game store in Osaka.

Grow up, dude.

show me literally any time and any place when deflation was actually a thing, and maybe i'll believe you
otherwise you have a terminal case of keynesianism

it was never a 3000 dollar game and all they did was break an acrylic case and rip some cardstock, the game still works fine
i hope every speculative investor has their games reduced to actual value. the fucking fact that the more popular and common a game is the more it's worth to these retards just goes to show how retarded the whole secondary game market has become.

super bing bang yahoo guy?! WOW! this must be worth like 1 gazillion dollars!!!!! i see him everywhere!

Deflation never happens as businesses suffer and bear the cost of it. Debt must grow.

fuck business whitetards i want funkopops vidya and hamburgers for cheap cheap deflation now

I thought they were real men

back to law shool buddy

What's the point of a videogame you can never play?
I have nothing against wanting to play on the original hardware or have a display collection, but this graded shit is fucking retarded and cancer.

investment tourists crept in theyve made the hobby shit and unaffordable to most people

It's called capitalism
If you don't like it, you don't like capitalism

Youtubers like LGR have made the price of vintage PC hardware go up 10x
20 years ago you could get a PC like this one literally for free

If the person got shipping insurance on it, they can file a claim with them. They can file a claim with Customs for gross negligence of the package, especially when all they had to do was send this thing through an X-ray and be done. The fact somebody ripped this thing apart means they were intentionally damaging the product and using their power to do so. But that person is still fucked. Can't sue the US government, and any government representative isn't going to care all that much about this

can't sue the US gov

biggest corpo can't be sued? what a shocker!

Defnitely united airlines
youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

be aggressive

Money was invented to help proportionate value. Some dumb fuck goat farmers probably got mad they wanted a bag of grain but the grain farmer wanted a whole goat and had nothing additional to exchange to make it fair and so invented money so they could keep some of the goats worth. Then goat farmer discovered the infinite money glitch of milking his goat and selling the milk, only for grain farmer to discover the same thing with growing his ingredients and thus both competed to have more than the other as to make the value of their items fair since grain farmer having 10 sheds full of grain and goat farmer having 2 buckets of milk means there's a scarcity therefore it's rare therefore price goes up. Now we have made up value based on EVERYONES grain and goat milk, so aforementioned goat farmer with 2 buckets of milk could be vastly less valuable thanks to goat farmer #2, a few towns over, milking gallons a day. This means goat farmer #1 goes out of business because he can't compete against the efficiency of goat farmer #2. If we apply that same situation to pre-money it'd be like if you were a grain farmer and asked #1 for milk, dude says 5 barrels of grain for a liter, and you visit #2 and dude says 1 barrel for a gallon. Nobody would do business with #1. But apply to the modern era and #1 would argue it's artisan goat milk and retards would happily throw money at it because #1 sneakily invented the concept of vegetarianism and pushed forth propaganda campaigns highlighting the health benefits of goat milk.

us gov is the biggest corpo

The US gov is the biggest puppet on a string controlled by other corporations and wealthy well connected individuals. Every politician is in the pockets of whatever corporation gets to them first, and most politicians are guilty of insider trading. Not a single bit of their wealth is organic. Not a single thing they do is for the people, except for the lowest rung of politicians that effectively gimp their growth because they don't accept under the table payments.

Work in shipping business

Part of job is packing up people

s stuff in order to send it off

One day this soifaced dude, his hamplanet wife and their little son come in with 5-6 heavy duty plastic tubs of Pokemon cards new in box, each box weighed probably 30 pounds each

We're helping them for a good 2-3 hours of the day just because of the sheer volume of cardboard and plastic crap they're sending out to multiple people, we run out of a couple of our box sizes helping this family as they take apart the boxes to find out which is going where

meanwhile the poor kid has this look of absolute sadness on his face, he clearly wants to open up the Pogeyman cards like it's his God-given right as a youngster to do so

The only thing he ends up getting is a Lucario coin that was in one of the box sets

End up giving him some bubble wrap to play with just because of how bad I felt for the poor little fucker

I just can't imagine how shameless you need to be to be doing this crap while denying your kid the opportunity to be involved in it. My mom used to get really into Yugioh and LEGOs for me when I was a kid but she always did it with the mindset that she wanted to support an interest of mine, not because of whether or not it would be an '''investment'''

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