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[Domo Arigato]

On 8/26/2021 at 12:55 AM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

How have postage stamps been doing?

No idea.

CHASEnBLUE stole all of mine so he could mail love letters to that cousin of his. 

 

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 8/26/2021 at 1:00 AM, Domo Arigato said:

No idea.

CHASEnBLUE stole all of mine so he could mail love letters to that cousin of his. 

 

@CHASEnBLUE How much were those stamps worth? 

[COI]

On 8/26/2021 at 1:55 AM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

How have postage stamps been doing?

The last stamp collector died two weeks before the last Titanic survivor.

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 8/26/2021 at 1:20 AM, COI said:

The last stamp collector died two weeks before the last Titanic survivor.

So they went down with the Titanic? 

Just figured with all of collectibles exploding and the spectacular job the post office has been doing, They would have made a comeback.  

Guess Halperin needs to start a grading company for those... 

[comicwiz]

On 8/25/2021 at 11:00 PM, COI said:

If Dan was the owner of both Heritage and WATA, it still wouldn't change the bad arguments made in the video. 

People sure do love ascribing motives on the internet.

AK, first thing I want to say is it's awesome seeing you back here posting. Now I read through the issues you presented about the way the author of the video makes his arguments, good or bad, it's effective for anyone who is just now getting into the collectibles market. Most of us knew the moment we saw Halperin was involved, and that Heirtage were getting into a relationship so quickly with an unproven grader, that this was going to be the outcome. And therein lies the problem. How many times have we seen people simply throw up an article about Halperin's NCI days (Forbes was a good one, but that one's gone or behind a paywall). Or the issues with NP Greshem - those too are conveniently slowly, and surely disappearing too. I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but these boards are too slowly going through some major purging of old threads, and whether or not they are being archived, moving that data is making it near impossible to search on it anymore using Google, because of the native search function of these boards being too rigid and time limited. As it stands, someone like myself, who understands a lot of the pre-history of the players involved might have a hard time trying to pull together all the chain of evidence to back the assertion or claim, even if it's just to warn people of how their involvement in any company is bad news for the hobby. For these reasons, I do believe the video author pieced together a lot of this from what was already being discussed on chat boards (I saw a forum site talking about the issue with Jeff Meyer from 2019). I have the corporate filing information for WATA in front of me on my screen, and he's definitely right about the people involved. In sum, I believe the video author got all the main issues teased out well enough for anyone to understand the market, and well enough that when people see what's really been going on (even if it's people with no pre-history on the people involved, or may not understand all the dynamics of the market itself), it makes a lot more sense to them now what was behind the price manipulation. And that's what essential about it's effectiveness here.

Edited August 26, 2021 by comicwiz

[MatterEaterLad]

On 8/25/2021 at 8:47 PM, Guardian Comics said:

So what you are saying is this….that first 100k video game was in a VGA holder and then cracked out and graded by WATA.  The owner decided to sell it (who was involved with Wata) and sold it to an owner of Wata…so weird, seems reasonable to me.

...sold by Heritage, owned by Halperin, who has a stake in WATA. 

It's wildly unethical for WATA and Heritage to promote this BOOMING GAME MARKET without disclosing the record sales were all by people with ownership positions in the grading company and the auction house. 

And you can try and discount the maker of the video, but he's not the only one making these claims. There are actual journalists, like the one I mentioned earlier, digging into WATAs data leak. .

[Microchip]

On 8/26/2021 at 2:29 AM, Bronty said:

I love comics, but comics haven't been read by the masses since about 1994, and nothing lasts forever.   We are 27 years out from 1994.      Is it really shocking that people are hobbying elsewhere?    20 years from now, when all of today's 55 year old comic collectors are 75, what's the health of the market look like then?    Who will be left to care about anything other than the most desirable comics?      Comics, as a hobby, have eroding demographics and in 20 years those demographics will be similar to stamp and coin demographics.    Games, pokemon, etc have better demographics.      You shouldn't be surprised to see pokemon cards and desirable games gaining strongly against most comics/coins/stamps.     

 

You're neglecting the biggest aspect of comics.   Comics for all the decades that have been in prevalence, have been directly, and indirectly connected with the American cinema culture.   And never more so than the last decade.   Nearly anyone who see's a movie now, know they're watching a Marvel, or a DC movie.   Not Warner, Columbia, or United Pictures film, it's Marvel, or DC.   It's a story of fantasy and high drama, with characters building on established genre.   The comic book, and it's more popular characters are being iconised for the next 50 years, and beyond.   The executives in charge of these films are well aware of the phenomena they are creating, bringing characters and storylines to the celluliod(4K) stage.   Comic books are the inception, and the life blood of these films, and like so many things, people pursue where it all started.   

   

[jaybuck43]

On 8/26/2021 at 8:32 AM, Microchip said:

You're neglecting the biggest aspect of comics.   Comics for all the decades that have been in prevalence, have been directly, and indirectly connected with the American cinema culture.   And never more so than the last decade.   Nearly anyone who see's a movie now, know they're watching a Marvel, or a DC movie.   Not Warner, Columbia, or United Pictures film, it's Marvel, or DC.   It's a story of fantasy and high drama, with characters building on established genre.   The comic book, and it's more popular characters are being iconised for the next 50 years, and beyond.   The executives in charge of these films are well aware of the phenomena they are creating, bringing characters and storylines to the celluliod(4K) stage.   Comic books are the inception, and the life blood of these films, and like so many things, people pursue where it all started.   

   

And to add to this, it's also brought comics and comic fandom into the mainstream.  Look no further than Con season.  How many new comic conventions have sprung up in the last 15 years?  When I was a kid, you went to a dingy hotel lobby and walked around for a few hours meeting Golden and Silver age artists and haggled over dog eared dollar bin issues.  Today NYCC spans multiple buildings and runs for 4 days (even that, I was at the first NYCC in 2006, when it was 40,000 or so guests in part of the Javits center.  Now it's 160,000+ each year).  Conan O'Brian used to broadcast his show from Comic Con each year.  The comics industry still is a billion dollar annual industry (TPBs, Comics, Digital etc.).  Every time I go to get my pull list there are always little kids in the store, excitedly getting their comics. That's the next generation, falling in love with it just like we did.    

[Transplant]

Has anyone yet mentioned the suspicion (knowledge) that Heritage owns/owned a piece of CGC?  

[jaybuck43]

On 8/26/2021 at 10:32 AM, Transplant said:

Has anyone yet mentioned the suspicion (knowledge) that Heritage owns/owned a piece of CGC?  

It’s not suspicion. It’s well known. I can post the link later. 

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 8/26/2021 at 10:32 AM, jaybuck43 said:

It’s not suspicion. It’s well known. I can post the link later. 

Is this true before the recent buyout of CGC, after, or both?

[jaybuck43]

On 8/26/2021 at 10:33 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Is this true before the recent buyout of CGC, after, or both?

Before. He and ivy each owned 12.5% of NGC.

[blazingbob]

On 8/26/2021 at 1:52 AM, valiantman said:

Every house in my neighborhood has increased in value by at least $30,000 since WATA started grading video games.  That's 2,000 houses, $30,000 each.  $60,000,000 out of thin air... 

AND...

Jim Halperin sent me a Heritage catalog in 2019.

COINCIDENCE?!?

Clearly instead of Rallyd you should be investing in real estate

[Buzzetta]

On 8/25/2021 at 9:43 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

For God's sake, go on and enjoy your little $100 investment in Action #1.

But it seems to me that if the "smiles" you're getting were enough, you wouldn't be so hell-bent on being RallyD's #1 superfan and PR man.  Everyone who has read your (many) posts gets it, you're a big believer.  Hope it gives you everything you're looking for.  

Participants in matters that Rally Road are engaged in are dependent on fresh meat to enter the fray to support it.  

[jcjames]

On 8/26/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatterEaterLad said:

...sold by Heritage, owned by Halperin, who has a stake in WATA. 

It's wildly unethical for WATA and Heritage to promote this BOOMING GAME MARKET without disclosing the record sales were all by people with ownership positions in the grading company and the auction house. 

And you can try and discount the maker of the video, but he's not the only one making these claims. There are actual journalists, like the one I mentioned earlier, digging into WATAs data leak. .

 

[Buzzetta]

On 8/25/2021 at 11:58 PM, jaybuck43 said:

3) After Halperin gets involved games start routinely breaking the 6 figures mark.  Shockingly, almost all of those major sales happen at one place, Heritage (owned by Jim Halperin) To my knowledge CC has not broken the 6 figure mark, but please correct me if I am wrong, I may have missed a sale.  The only other record sale is Rally's $2 million SMB BUT that's a private sale and I have my own suspicions about what happened there.

heh heh

[Domo Arigato]

On 8/26/2021 at 7:15 AM, MatterEaterLad said:

…the record sales were all by people with ownership positions in the grading company and the auction house. 

Please tell us who the sellers and purchasers were of all the record sales  in the last six months.  
 

Thanks.

[valiantman]

On 8/26/2021 at 9:52 AM, blazingbob said:

On 8/26/2021 at 12:52 AM, valiantman said:

Every house in my neighborhood has increased in value by at least $30,000 since WATA started grading video games.  That's 2,000 houses, $30,000 each.  $60,000,000 out of thin air... 

AND...

Jim Halperin sent me a Heritage catalog in 2019.

COINCIDENCE?!?

Clearly instead of Rallyd you should be investing in real estate

What do you mean by "instead"?  You think I don't have money in everything that exists?  

Edited August 26, 2021 by valiantman

[blazingbob]

On 8/26/2021 at 11:28 AM, valiantman said:

What do you mean by "instead"?  You think I don't have money in everything that exists?  

Everyone cannot be an expert in everything.  Maybe you are missing your calling that real estate is your ticket to financial freedom.

[valiantman]

On 8/26/2021 at 10:32 AM, blazingbob said:

Everyone cannot be an expert in everything.  Maybe you are missing your calling that real estate is your ticket to financial freedom.

I got 99 problems but a ditch ain't one.