Thread 715898832

Why would you do this to a brand new game?

to scam morons out of their money
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>>715898832 (OP)
Fun fact, the tech to make N64 carts is available for about $20 total, and you can buy a very accurate recreation of the Super Mario 64 N64 box for $5.

I've been tempted to make a fake cart, stick it in a fake box, and ship it off to be graded.
I'd sell it on Ebay.

>>715899091
That's a felony

>>715898832 (OP)
Wata owns both the auction house and the grading company, and most likely the plastic shell factory.
Also similar scams are made in other media.

>>715899091
You can't make the internals be identical, because nintendo use mask rom, while the reproductions use flash chips.

>>715898832 (OP)
shit could roll off an assembly line and immediately it would be graded a 9.8

>>715899401
No one in their right mind would open the shrink-wrapped box to check.

>>715898832 (OP)
so i don´t have to play this shit

>>715899091
They would figure it out when grading it, they use microscopes to tell if pokemon cards were actually printed the right way for whatever era they were made in. There would be a way to see that everything is fake.
You could probably just sell it on ebay as mint/wrapped and someone would buy it though.

>>715899439
Wata, while grading the card, supposing they do this kind of shit.

>>715899305
>never seen this card before
>check gatherer for comments
>the site has been redesigned and all comments are gone
o_O

>>715899305
don't forget you have to pay them 10% of what they think your game is worth

>>715902321
Yep.

>>715902321
Also the funniest shit is that they sell to themselves a game for several million dollars, so it turns into news and retarded game journos make marketing for em for free.

>>715899924
they also supposedly replace the authentic board with a chink replica because collectors wont ever open their wata sealed box.

>>715898832 (OP)
I think people are only buying Nintendo shit to sell them at this point. It just looks like a big scam

>>715902910
The whole thing is a big scam.
For example, there are 17 million copies of this game in the wild:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204522113344

>>715898832 (OP)
>grades new product with endless supply
>still doesnt get a 10
nintendoids have to be the dumbest people in gaming

>>715898832 (OP)
He understood nobody was actually playing it and just collecting it.

>>715898832 (OP)
It's a smart move, whoever graded it is playing the long game and will get the last laugh in 10-20 years when this inevitably appreciates in value and becomes a coveted collector's item. Sounds like sour grapes because you can't afford graded games

>>715905257
Except he's already got it listed for sale. It may be worth a few thousand in 10+ years, but he's trying to offload it now and for slightly less than double the price he would've paid to get the game and get it graded. And that doesn't include shit like taxes and selling fees that probably drops the potential profit to ~$50.

>>715899091
Just buy a "reproduction" from Alibaba in bulk, then sell it at a markup

>>715903997
the scratch the boxes on purpose to lower scores. theres compilations of people sending mint packagings to wata only for them to come back scratched as fuck and sealed for 8.9 grade

>>715898832 (OP)
>$250 for a download
the goddamn fucking game isn't even in the disc!

>>715905742
He's charging for the convenience of having the game without needing to go through the hassle of getting it graded manually, what's the problem? If anything compared to how much that will cost in the future it's pretty generous

it can always be worse

>>715907368
Give it back

>>715907368
It's literally like trying to sell a digital key. Are there really people retarded enough to buy this?

>>715899091
Go ahead and try it. I'm sure you're the first genius with this idea.

>>715907585
It's money laundering. Anytime you have a question about WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY FOR BLAH BLAH, the answer is always money laundering. Trump pretty much fired EVERY SINGLE PERSON CAPABLE OF POLICING AMERICA at the federal and justice level in order to do whatever he wants which in turn, made it much easier for people to do shady shit. Money laundering right now is the easiest thing to do and tons of people - myself included - are doing it, then the smart ones - myself - gtfo America and never return.

>>715908417
>I'm a thief by the way
>I'm also not going to stay in the place with thieves!
Huh... Anon?

>>715908417
But to launder money you must first be able to get it?

>>715898832 (OP)
More importantly, what retard is buying this shit?

>>715907368
retardest of retards he who does this.

>>715899091
you're the definition of a 100 IQ midwit that doesn't realize he's not smart.

>>715908909
Yep. Cope and seethe poorfag.
>>715909190
Yes and no thanks to crypto

>>715898832 (OP)
Jews

>>715903659
it is a scam, but 17 million copies of that game no longer exist, there might be a few million left if that but most of them would have been thrown away / discarded / lost / etc.