Grading firm Wata is facing a lawsuit for allegedly ‘manipulating the retro game market’

[Wyo]

without getting too philosophical, makes you wonder what they're really after

I'll get philosophical . Haha.

10% street credit....but mostly cash money, and "return on investment".

It's really sad watching former retro gaming collector YouTube channels turning into flipper channels....because that's the, "in" thing right now.

Goes without saying but literally everything is a commodity to be flipped now....from video games to housing.....dreading the time when/if it comes to necessities, like food and gas....that's gonna be some mad max shit right there.

 

[rod90]

does this mean we're duck guys now?

Who are you asking?

 

[MIPS]

It's really sad watching former retro gaming collector YouTube channels turning into flipper channels....because that's the, "in" thing right now.

That's called The LGR Effect /The Techmoan Effect / The 8-Bit Guy Effect / The Youtube Effect.

A major youtube personality makes a video on some obscure piece of hardware (it can be anything) and the viewerbase makes a rush to buy the same obscure thing as well, causing the value to spike and long-term availability dries up. (EG a particular USB adapter card for ISA was a thing for a decade and nobody cared, until suddenly it was impossible to find them for cheap)
As a creator myself it can also be detrimental to other smaller youtube creators because the line is very vague between someone separately being legit interested in the same obscure thing as some other major personality recently talked about and not being aware a similar video had recently been released, or they only made the video to try and cash in on second-hand clicks.

 

[AboboBrazil]

I want to wave my duck but I'm too mallardjusted.

 

[KaBoom1701]

I'm ok with this... if your dumb enough to pay one million dollars for a NES cart you deserve to be scammed...... with that said brace yourselves.. Bitcoin is next.

 

[osver]

with that said brace yourselves.. Bitcoin is next.

I dunno, it's going to be awful hard to grade bitcoins and encase them in plastic.

 

[rod90]

I dunno, it's going to be awful hard to grade bitcoins and encase them in plastic.

I am sure that they can give you a strongly worded certificate of authenticity.

 

[Alpha-tron]

I want to wave my duck but I'm too mallardjusted.

Fire up the Daffy meme. Laughs

 

[advans13]

I want to wave my duck but I'm too mallardjusted.

Same, too bad the headliner was already double billed.

 

[AboboBrazil]

 

[advans13]

Promise im just responding to this thread

 

[Infa Red]

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Promise im just responding to this thread

Is that considered quacking off ?

 

[jawhn]

This thread is becoming a duckumentary of sorts...

 

[Wyo]

This thread is becoming a duckumentary of sorts...

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Come on, it's only 40K....with inflation, it almost evens out.

Sports car vs Ducktales sealed in a plastic box.....hmmmmm, wonder which one would attract the chicks?

 

[bobbyb13]

I'll get philosophical . Haha.

10% street credit....but mostly cash money, and "return on investment".

It's really sad watching former retro gaming collector YouTube channels turning into flipper channels....because that's the, "in" thing right now.

Goes without saying but literally everything is a commodity to be flipped now....from video games to housing.....dreading the time when/if it comes to necessities, like food and gas....that's gonna be some mad max shit right there.

At this point, so many intelligent and industrious people have seen half-wits make so much money in the stawk mahket that nearly the whole world seems to have given up on offering an honest service or actually producing something of value to get ahead.
It's as if the entire world has become a casino.

 

[Infa Red]

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Come on, it's only 40K....with inflation, it almost evens out.

Sports car vs Ducktales sealed in a plastic box.....hmmmmm, wonder which one would attract the chicks?

Well, lets look at it like this though. If the world keeps heading in this asinine direction of fake value, market manipulation, etc.. THEN the DuckTales cartridge would attract more chicks. Cause in a few years you sell it for a 2 million dollar profit, and have way more than that sports car that depreciated the moment you drove it off the lot. Chicks like money too, not just cars. The new way is to Uber everywhere anyway.

 

[Wyo]

At this point, so many intelligent and industrious people have seen half-wits make so much money in the stawk mahket that nearly the whole world seems to have given up on offering an honest service or actually producing something of value to get ahead.
It's as if the entire world has become a casino.

Yeah, it's crazy.

Before I was making custom cabs, when I was college, I was making custom GI JOE action figure packaging. I made this one based off a legit real guy. I was standing in line at Walmart in the middle of nowhere Wyoming and this guy was checking out buying a bunch of the same GI JOE figure. (hot items at the time)

He pretty much looked just like this, skullet, sweatpants and all. Little does he know he's got an action figure of himself. Art imitates life. Haha. The ironic part is I sold this to a guy who begged me for it to give to his kids....and it ended up on eBay a few days later and sold for three times what I let it go for. Merica!

 

[LyonsArcade]

This stuff all seems so obvious to me and to 'us'... but sometimes I wonder if back in the 1920's businesspeople and things thought similarly. So for instance when the market crashed in the 20's were there people saying "I told you so!" and felt like the world had gone to hell from the glory days of the 1910's or something.

 

[Wyo]

Well, lets look at it like this though. If the world keeps heading in this asinine direction of fake value, market manipulation, etc.. THEN the DuckTales cartridge would attract more chicks. Cause in a few years you sell it for a 2 million dollar profit, and have way more than that sports car that depreciated the moment you drove it off the lot. Chicks like money too, not just cars. The new way is to Uber everywhere anyway.

Great points! Never thought about that! Now I just need that Ducktales and I can start flipping my way to the new 2.6 million dollar Lamborghini Countach!

Of course, Id never actually drive the Countach. I'd just get it graded and let the chicks look at it in its acrylic case.

 

[Alpha-tron]

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Come on, it's only 40K....with inflation, it almost evens out.

Sports car vs Ducktales sealed in a plastic box.....hmmmmm, wonder which one would attract the chicks?

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