Recent NES black box sales

[Kevincal]

ok heres something i think is stupid about vga, they only grade sealed games.

baseball cards and comic books, they will grade anything including used and beat up.

for instance I just sold a very near mint mario bros 3 CIB etc for like $40 buy it now. Had it had shrinkwrap on it new i could have sold it for maybe $100 or so. If it were graded by vga , sold for what, 300, 500?! If video games are now being graded I would like to see the opportunity of used games being graded, why not...

Also ebay needs to make their grading scale much more detailed. sellers should be given a scale of 1-10 instead of the 5 choices given. and a real collector should be given the task of the criteria for each grade. I noticed ebay kinda changed the grading, now its ok to list a game with manual as good instead of just acceptable, but it mentions nothing about a game with just the box being ok to list as good. grading is too vague on ebay.

[jonebone]

for instance I just sold a very near mint mario bros 3 CIB etc for like $40 buy it now. Had it had shrinkwrap on it new i could have sold it for maybe $100 or so. If it were graded by vga , sold for what, 300, 500?!

VGA 85, probably $400. 85+, I thought was maybe $600-$800, but that new guy showed up and screwed up everything I knew about pricing.

Highest confirmed, 90+, $20,000. Wonder how much he got paid.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-199...item3cc49999f3

And even a 90, $11,999 OBO, though no idea what offers he's getting. I'd imagine at least $1.5k+.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mario-...item4ab66084e5