Sealed copy of Pokemon Yellow graded A+ allegedly destroyed by US Customs

Marc_LFD · Jan 29, 2023

LainaGabranth said:
Collecting something to deny it its purpose is stupid, full stop. Imagine buying cars only to never drive them. If you do not have the appreciation of something you collect, such as vehicles and their engineering or designs, to use them for their purpose, you literally just want something for status. There is no empathy for people who engage in nonsense like this. In fact, I hope customs actually *charges* them money just out of spite. Collectortrogs do not belong in my hobby.

Isn't that what Jay Leno did?

To be fair, it's a garage, not sealed up containers/cases/boxes.

qweasdgo · Jan 29, 2023

ShadowOne333 said:
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Stephen Kick, who runs under the username of @pripyatbeast, posted on Twitter an image of a received package after being handled by customs. The package was supposed to be an encased sealed copy of Pokemon Yellow, graded A+ with a score of 9.2 by Wata Games with an alleged worth of around $3'800 dollars, but instead, the owner got a broken acrylic case, with a mangled seal and sliced box of Pokemon Yellow.

The highest rated Pokemon Yellow game is also an A+, but with a score of 9.4, which is currently going up for around $10'500 dollars in price.
While the morality and legality of sealed copies of widely available games as Pokemon Yellow is highly questionable and up for debate, and regardless of its alleged worth, it's always heartbreaking to see something you ordering getting destroyed in shipping or customs.

smf · Jan 30, 2023

LainaGabranth said:
Collecting something to deny it its purpose is stupid, full stop.

Sealed games have no purpose, if they did then they wouldn't still be sealed.

wolf-snake · Jan 30, 2023

Kanakops said:
I don't say the contrary, the problem is that some people don't look at this only as a funny anecdote, they are just genuinely glad that someone lost a lot of money and saw their product destroyed because they despise it

Well Wata Games is quite notorious for artificially inflating scores for people's personal gain. So thats the reason people are celebrating this to an extend.

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