Grading does not need to be a thing for video game collecting. Don't let these vultures pretending to be "preservationists" dig their roots into the video game community.
Naturally when there's millions and possibly billions of dollars circulating around a certain market, us consumers need confirmation and validation that everything is real or else there would be many many more scams
not if the video game is sealed and you want to keep it that way. For games that are 20-30 years old, you do need to preserve them with grading unfortunately
@@sorrycashonly5651 no way. not true at all. you can pickup a videogame grading slab and preserve it yourself. the company doesn't do anything fancy. if anything they'll just mess it up more.
@@matthewchavez5322 exactly that’s what I was thinking they gotta keep those 9-10 for themselves. I hope he sue them because even the pictures they send him once they received the games don’t have writing on the front.
Just heard about this on the CUPodcast. That sucks dude. Another great reason to avoid sending anything to, or buying anything from WATA. That company needs to go down. The quicker the better. And the best way to make that happen is for everyone to stop using their service or purchasing anything that they have graded. Unless the courts take them down first for all of their shady business practices….
It definitely is in my opinion. The plastic stretch marks on the front match up pretty well to the before pictures. That would be impossible to imitate. They clearly lost the package in transit and the carrier probably wrote on the front. If that was done by WATA then holy shit that's bad.
Super sorry to see how terribly they treated your game... hopefully they take responsibility and make it right!! If not theres a whole community of hardcore collectors that are ready to come down on them!! Between the market manipulation and then something like this.. just cannot be tolerated!
I feel really bad for you. I would be extremely upset with what happened here. This is absolutely unreal! They basically lost your game (better copy) and gave you a different game in much worse condition. I am speechless!
bro this is kinda more depressing than the taliban.. :( how could they do that to you. but that target sticker was kinda crack... and in the future if target ever died. that coulda have made it worth more... im so sorry you put your trust in them. you should find more people since wata opened that has issues with this "cleaning" service" and open a lawsuit.
How did you manage to keep your cool? I wouldve leapt through the email at WATA as soon as i turned it over and seen that BS! Goodluck with dealing with their next round of excuses, i am devastated that after all this crap...this is the result!
I would have not tried to remove that sticker. Those security tags with the square pattern underneath are incredibly difficult to remove, even on the more durable plastic on a new ps2 game for example. With how fragile a gameboy plastic seal is, you are guranteed to damage the seal. I have removed those security tags from a ps2 game, and even if removed the plastic is still impressed from that seal and wont look good. In any case yes, WATA ripped the seal trying to remove the sticker it was an impossible task, and they are obviously too incompetent for the task regardless
Dude I thought we had bad experiences….I honestly think that might not be the same game you sent in. Stickers don’t seem to be lined up the same…I could be way off. Ive been suspect of them selling our own games and possibly replacing them and that’s why some stuff has been taking so long. Me and my partner Korey both still have speed run orders we haven’t gotten back yet from April. Total fucking bullshit. They’ve all but lost credibility with us. This vid just puts it over the top. I’m not surprised unfortunately. We are sorry for your loss - Jim @NM
I mean you could easily assume there are a limited number of these games still sealed. Every "9/10" they receive they could theoretically mark or accidentally rip and turn their handful of 8s into 9s by ruining the few solid 9/10s honest people are sending in to them. And with these wait times who knows what could be happening. It's all the more reason to not bother with shady companies like Wata.
Man, sorry to see that happened. This is legit the craziest grading mishap I've seen. Tearing the seal, and then writing on the game. Just when you thought WATA couldn't get any worse.
Something definelty needs to be done with them. They need to be held accountable when the fuck up someone's item this badly. If it was like a 100$ item, whatever, but this is terrible. They should be embarrassed that they provided this grading, cleaning and customer service.
This is why I NEVER would think about paying WATA to "Heavy Clean" my games. If I feel comfortable removing a sticker with Bestine, I'll do it. Otherwise I just keep them on. Not worth damaging. These security stickers are a PITA to remove, especially from delicate shrink-wrap.
Damn dude, this whole saga has been beyond a nightmare for you. So frustrating to see, and sorry you’re having to go through this. I knew from IG there was writing on the front, but man when i saw your reaction as you turned it over, my heart sank for you.
The twist at the end was so good, my heart legit skipped a beat. Bro, I feel sorry for you, for real. Good job on the video, though, I'm sure it will pay off. (Sub'd)
Mann im beyond sorry this happened! Hopefully with everything going on in the news and Karl's video makes them really step up their grading game. Aswell as deffinatly hope they compensate you for that. Thats disgusting
So deep cleaning to them means rip the seal and WRITE on the game!? 🤦🏽♂️ I feel you Ryan even I need a sip of apple juice after watching this 🤬 lol 🖕🏽WATA
I'm no defender of Wata but the rip being there before or not is inconclusive based on what is shown. The rip is very close to where the sticker was and that can be evaluated by taking a snippet at 5:04 and comparing it to 5:43. The angles are different so its very tough to tell but I agree that it probably happened in removing the sticker. Filming sticker removal is a great idea as someone mentioned. However, you cant tell if the marker is on the acrylic or the game itself? There is a space between the case and the game itself. That's unreal if indeed on the game.
Oooooof. I feel for you dude. That is a mess WATA has had my copy of Budokai since mid-March. They dodge my questions constantly. Definitely won’t be working with them again myself. I hope you get compensated for you definite loss!
Wow. Cant believe you had such a terrible experience with the grading. As a "new collector" definitely appreciate having this kind of knowledge before sending my own games to grading. New to the channel but definitely love the content. 👍
I know this is bad mate but any publicity is good publicity as they say I’m afraid to say I never heard of you before this but you’ve now gained a new sub in me n I reckon your subs will shoot up abit from all this so there’s a silver lining to all clouds I look forward to checking out your previous content 😉👍
Bruh, I'm so sorry to hear that this was the outcome of your experience with WATA. They really messed up and didn't make it right. Lawyer up? They really need to compensate you for this atrocity.
I'm pretty sure the writing is on the inner plastic holder. Still crazy though that someone didn't notice that or at least... look at the game before shipping it to you. 😒
Wow what a horrific business…safe to say I will never ever grade anything with WATA. If you can’t respect the customers who keep your lights on you shouldn’t be in business, hope you can get some sort of compensation for your terrible experience
My theory is that the Target employee pressed the sticker against the box to the right, so when they took it off, the stress was relieved and the shrink wrap went back to where it was originally. As for the "receiving" writing, yeah that's a colossal fuck-up, what in the holy hell even happened. I can't imagine any situation where they'd deliberately write that on the game though, I'm 99.9% sure it's on the protective casing inside. Both copies have the same subtle indent on the middle-right where the seam lines up, so they must be the same copies.
As a coin collector coin grading by PCGS and NGC predated game grading by many decades. They’ve been doing it since the mid 1980s. However unlike Game grading if PCGS or NGC damages your coin during the grading process they will pay you the fair market value of the coin or replace it with a replacement of the same coin of equal condition. In this case WATA should pay Ryan the fair market value of a similar condition copy of Pokemon Red OR replace his copy with another sealed authentic copy of Pokemon Red in equal condition to his.
Jeepers....I can unfortunately understand the tear caused by the attempted removal of the sticker (I can't believe they didn't admit fault for that), but the writing on the front.....the worst.
I lined up the pre image with what they sent you, and it definitely looks like they tore it. I also can't tell, due to lighting differences and the case and everything, but I'm not sure the puckering lines up between the two. And that "Receiving" on the front is a huge wtf. If this is the one you sent them, they were probably trying to figure out how to clean off the sharpie.
What I hate about emailing customer service for anything is most of the time, you get that copy and paste bs response which is extremely irritating, especially when the reason you contacted them in the first place was for an important issue
Unacceptable. I’d write a VERY strongly worded email to them, and demand a refund for both the grading, and the los of value. This might be grounds for a lawsuit
Absolutely mind boggling bad.... If you want to try and get the writing off, generally a magic eraser would take that off quite easily(with a tiny bit of 91-99 percent alcohol. If its just on the WATA case, shouldn't be hard at all. If its on the game, that definitely more tricky but doable
Or just use a dry erase marker if it's sharpie because dry erase markers have a solvent in them for sharpie. Scribble over the marker on it and use a cloth to clean it off.
I don't think the game is swapped. The sticker angle and position are correct (the outer edges of the sticker would be where they are if the core was positioned like that. It is all correct). It says, "Receiving" on the front. It is possible they write on all the games (probably a dry erase marker) and forgot to wipe it off because they were so focused on their error on the back.
Also, those anti theft stickers are notoriously hard to remove. Surprised they offer “deep cleaning” for those kinds of stickers (and that they don’t f it up more often).
That's fkd up. I leave stickers on unless they are very obtrusive. Security tags are a PIA and hard to remove for a reason -theft prevention , 90% of time will tear the seal. Price stickers use Goo Gone, soak for 5-10 min if difficult. GL next time.
Videogame collecting has gone to absolute shit, makes me sick how all these games get sealed into worthless plastic shells and put in storages! 🤮🤮 Screw WATA, dont even fuck with them anymore, horrible company!!!
I swear they graded my box a 7 and cart 7… i feel like the box is an 8.5 and my cart was minty… i don’t get it. I have 2 other orders i hope they come back fairly graded this time. Great video 🔥 and sorry about the situation… unreal. Like we all said “oh wata mess”
they over graded everything in 2019 and 2020 so in 2021, theyre purposely downgrading everything to make pop reports look more realistic when they release them...
You will magically see a grade 9/10 pop up in a few months time from wata. 👀 It would be worth checking any selling companies to see any sold a red game with writing on the front
i would let more people know. There needs to be accountability for this, I would be absolutely heart broken. I’d be in a plane the next day. Considering the condition prior to sending it in.
I'm guessing they over saturated it with steam and tried to peel it off with tweezers rather than scrape it with a small very sharp blade. I've removed a lot of stickers from sealed games I've graded, that is so hard to look at especially because it was so clean to begin with.
Really sorry to see that. Rip couldn’t have been under the sticker originally or if it was, they made it much worse. Don’t know why they would write on the game/slide.
The angle of the magnetic sticker and the clear portion around it matches the way the sticker was angled originally so I don't think they swapped your game. However that writing on the front has to be a joke. WTF is that!
Wata Slogan :”Wata U talkin About”
Grading does not need to be a thing for video game collecting. Don't let these vultures pretending to be "preservationists" dig their roots into the video game community.
Fr that’s why I open all my shit
Naturally when there's millions and possibly billions of dollars circulating around a certain market, us consumers need confirmation and validation that everything is real or else there would be many many more scams
not if the video game is sealed and you want to keep it that way.
For games that are 20-30 years old, you do need to preserve them with grading unfortunately
@@sorrycashonly5651 no way. not true at all. you can pickup a videogame grading slab and preserve it yourself. the company doesn't do anything fancy. if anything they'll just mess it up more.
wrong
You should compare the games in detail, its still possible they lost your game and just said they "found it" and replaced it with that defect copy
Lost, or tried switching copies to stockpile their 10's?
@@matthewchavez5322 exactly that’s what I was thinking they gotta keep those 9-10 for themselves. I hope he sue them because even the pictures they send him once they received the games don’t have writing on the front.
"WATA, where our accountability to your valuable collectibles, is NADA"
And they didn't even remove all of the security sticker either, so it looks more of a mess than when it had the full Target sticker on it.
It was fubar to even try and mess with that security sticker, both this dude and Wata are idiots and need to stay away from video games
Just heard about this on the CUPodcast. That sucks dude. Another great reason to avoid sending anything to, or buying anything from WATA. That company needs to go down. The quicker the better. And the best way to make that happen is for everyone to stop using their service or purchasing anything that they have graded.
Unless the courts take them down first for all of their shady business practices….
Most likely that isn't your game even, the magnetic sticker is much farther right.
They might have lost the game or someone swapped it somewhere.
It definitely is in my opinion. The plastic stretch marks on the front match up pretty well to the before pictures. That would be impossible to imitate. They clearly lost the package in transit and the carrier probably wrote on the front. If that was done by WATA then holy shit that's bad.
Yeah man Karl Jobst just did a whole in depth video about the shadiness of that company certainly best to stay away from WATA....
Yeah his video was a good watch
Super sorry to see how terribly they treated your game... hopefully they take responsibility and make it right!! If not theres a whole community of hardcore collectors that are ready to come down on them!! Between the market manipulation and then something like this.. just cannot be tolerated!
Yeah everyone knows bro
His video came out some weeks back. Ryan sent this months ago.
- They need to be accountable
- You got it graded to be displayed?
$ure.......
I feel really bad for you. I would be extremely upset with what happened here. This is absolutely unreal! They basically lost your game (better copy) and gave you a different game in much worse condition. I am speechless!
7:12 holy shit dude. My heart dropped. That is fucking insane. I will never use them after seeing this.
bro this is kinda more depressing than the taliban.. :( how could they do that to you. but that target sticker was kinda crack... and in the future if target ever died. that coulda have made it worth more... im so sorry you put your trust in them. you should find more people since wata opened that has issues with this "cleaning" service" and open a lawsuit.
ps didnt realize the sticker was the metal sticker :((((
Take them to court man
What the actual hell. I will never take my games there. That is absurd. They should compensate you for full value.
Thank godyou took photos of it before you sent it out.
Super sorry to hear about this. Glad to hear your buddies are all in NJ now though!
I wonder if they swapped out your game and send you some kind of replacement they found online.
How did you manage to keep your cool? I wouldve leapt through the email at WATA as soon as i turned it over and seen that BS! Goodluck with dealing with their next round of excuses, i am devastated that after all this crap...this is the result!
I would have not tried to remove that sticker. Those security tags with the square pattern underneath are incredibly difficult to remove, even on the more durable plastic on a new ps2 game for example. With how fragile a gameboy plastic seal is, you are guranteed to damage the seal. I have removed those security tags from a ps2 game, and even if removed the plastic is still impressed from that seal and wont look good. In any case yes, WATA ripped the seal trying to remove the sticker it was an impossible task, and they are obviously too incompetent for the task regardless
100% they gave your game to someone else. And they spent months trying to find it.
Absolutely this.
obviously
I would be PISSED!
The dislikes are from the employees at wata that „lost“ or destroyed your game.
Dude I thought we had bad experiences….I honestly think that might not be the same game you sent in. Stickers don’t seem to be lined up the same…I could be way off. Ive been suspect of them selling our own games and possibly replacing them and that’s why some stuff has been taking so long. Me and my partner Korey both still have speed run orders we haven’t gotten back yet from April. Total fucking bullshit. They’ve all but lost credibility with us. This vid just puts it over the top. I’m not surprised unfortunately. We are sorry for your loss - Jim @NM
I don’t understand what would cause anyone at any grading company to write on the product
I’m blown away you tried to get them to remove that sticker.
WTF?!?! 🤬 To quote the AVGN: „WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!“
I guess they only want their copies to be worth more
I mean you could easily assume there are a limited number of these games still sealed. Every "9/10" they receive they could theoretically mark or accidentally rip and turn their handful of 8s into 9s by ruining the few solid 9/10s honest people are sending in to them. And with these wait times who knows what could be happening. It's all the more reason to not bother with shady companies like Wata.
Dude. I'm so sorry man. That's rough man. I look forward to what they say to that.
This video makes me realize never to send any of my sealed collectables to anyone for any reason but to sell them
Y'all make sure to like this video, this video needs to go viral. Absolutely unacceptable
Man, sorry to see that happened. This is legit the craziest grading mishap I've seen. Tearing the seal, and then writing on the game. Just when you thought WATA couldn't get any worse.
Something definelty needs to be done with them. They need to be held accountable when the fuck up someone's item this badly. If it was like a 100$ item, whatever, but this is terrible. They should be embarrassed that they provided this grading, cleaning and customer service.
This is why I NEVER would think about paying WATA to "Heavy Clean" my games. If I feel comfortable removing a sticker with Bestine, I'll do it. Otherwise I just keep them on. Not worth damaging. These security stickers are a PITA to remove, especially from delicate shrink-wrap.
Shameful & unfortunate business operations :(
Sorry this happened to you
Also, sick room with all the tubs of goodies!
I’m a Jersey boy!!! Big things coming brotha
I wonder what kind of security WATA has. Seems like maybe a good place to pull off a heist.
Damn dude, this whole saga has been beyond a nightmare for you. So frustrating to see, and sorry you’re having to go through this. I knew from IG there was writing on the front, but man when i saw your reaction as you turned it over, my heart sank for you.
No compensation??? This needs to go viral. That must be thousands of dollars lost in value....
Glad Contri covered your incident. Wata is a crock for a number of reasons it seems. Hope you can get something sorted out. GL.
The twist at the end was so good, my heart legit skipped a beat.
Bro, I feel sorry for you, for real. Good job on the video, though, I'm sure it will pay off.
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Im sorry you dealt with this company. So much has come out about them lately. I surely they compensate you for the product that was damaged
Aw man I’m sorry 🥺 that’s not right! I hope they can rectify the situation properly with you! Good luck Ryan!
Mann im beyond sorry this happened! Hopefully with everything going on in the news and Karl's video makes them really step up their grading game. Aswell as deffinatly hope they compensate you for that. Thats disgusting
No, WATA needs to go away !
Their business practices isn't organic at all !
So deep cleaning to them means rip the seal and WRITE on the game!? 🤦🏽♂️ I feel you Ryan even I need a sip of apple juice after watching this 🤬 lol
🖕🏽WATA
imagine paying for that
Bro, what were they thinking?! Thats down right Terrible!! Someone needed an ear beating after that!!!
I'm no defender of Wata but the rip being there before or not is inconclusive based on what is shown. The rip is very close to where the sticker was and that can be evaluated by taking a snippet at 5:04 and comparing it to 5:43. The angles are different so its very tough to tell but I agree that it probably happened in removing the sticker. Filming sticker removal is a great idea as someone mentioned. However, you cant tell if the marker is on the acrylic or the game itself? There is a space between the case and the game itself. That's unreal if indeed on the game.
Oooooof. I feel for you dude. That is a mess WATA has had my copy of Budokai since mid-March. They dodge my questions constantly. Definitely won’t be working with them again myself. I hope you get compensated for you definite loss!
You know it's a good one when it starts with a cat.
Wow. Cant believe you had such a terrible experience with the grading. As a "new collector" definitely appreciate having this kind of knowledge before sending my own games to grading.
New to the channel but definitely love the content. 👍
I know this is bad mate but any publicity is good publicity as they say I’m afraid to say I never heard of you before this but you’ve now gained a new sub in me n I reckon your subs will shoot up abit from all this so there’s a silver lining to all clouds I look forward to checking out your previous content 😉👍
Bruh, I'm so sorry to hear that this was the outcome of your experience with WATA. They really messed up and didn't make it right. Lawyer up? They really need to compensate you for this atrocity.
I'm pretty sure the writing is on the inner plastic holder. Still crazy though that someone didn't notice that or at least... look at the game before shipping it to you. 😒
Yeah I’m sure it is too and yeah idk how you could miss it
What? Just…like…what? I’m baffled. This was a jaw dropper
You handled this way better than I would’ve. I would’ve been flowing with apple juice if I was dealing with this. 🤦🏽♂️
Wow this is infuriating 😬 what the hell did they do??? They need to be sued. Absolutely ridiculous.
Wow what a horrific business…safe to say I will never ever grade anything with WATA. If you can’t respect the customers who keep your lights on you shouldn’t be in business, hope you can get some sort of compensation for your terrible experience
Damn, that makes it look ugly. Makes you not even want to display it. There's no way I'd display that eyesore.
We should spread the word about this and share the video around. This is unbelievable.
My theory is that the Target employee pressed the sticker against the box to the right, so when they took it off, the stress was relieved and the shrink wrap went back to where it was originally. As for the "receiving" writing, yeah that's a colossal fuck-up, what in the holy hell even happened. I can't imagine any situation where they'd deliberately write that on the game though, I'm 99.9% sure it's on the protective casing inside. Both copies have the same subtle indent on the middle-right where the seam lines up, so they must be the same copies.
Holy shit. I’m so sorry man.
As a coin collector coin grading by PCGS and NGC predated game grading by many decades. They’ve been doing it since the mid 1980s.
However unlike Game grading if PCGS or NGC damages your coin during the grading process they will pay you the fair market value of the coin or replace it with a replacement of the same coin of equal condition.
In this case WATA should pay Ryan the fair market value of a similar condition copy of Pokemon Red OR replace his copy with another sealed authentic copy of Pokemon Red in equal condition to his.
Just got back 3 of 12 games from WataGames and all 3 are damaged ... My video showing the damages will be live on 9/8/22 at 4pm PST.
I'm just gonna buy my own cases if I ever blow my money on a sealed game. Screw any of these services.
Jeepers....I can unfortunately understand the tear caused by the attempted removal of the sticker (I can't believe they didn't admit fault for that), but the writing on the front.....the worst.
It is VERY CLEAR to me that Wata ripped it during the deep cleaning. I feel bad that they did this to you :(
I lined up the pre image with what they sent you, and it definitely looks like they tore it. I also can't tell, due to lighting differences and the case and everything, but I'm not sure the puckering lines up between the two.
And that "Receiving" on the front is a huge wtf. If this is the one you sent them, they were probably trying to figure out how to clean off the sharpie.
Bro!!!!!!! Omg !!! I just can’t say anything I can’t imagine the pain sorry this happened
Next level fucked up. Can’t wait to see how they resolve this bs
gawd i want this to go viral! so sorry dude
Ohhh shit pumped to hear about Pokémon radar moving!! Sorry to hear about your shit experience
What I hate about emailing customer service for anything is most of the time, you get that copy and paste bs response which is extremely irritating, especially when the reason you contacted them in the first place was for an important issue
Thanks for sharing this bro.... I'll likely never use Wata
Please re-label your title. The WORST Wata Grading Experience Ever! [Part 1 of X]
THIS what happens to snake oil salesman 🙄
That’s crazy man… you deserve a refund at the minimum or a free grade
What? he deserves the value of the sent copy.
@@danmac0 I definitely agree
They gave you a totally different game it looks like.
Yikes that sucks dawg they did you dirty on that one
Unacceptable. I’d write a VERY strongly worded email to them, and demand a refund for both the grading, and the los of value. This might be grounds for a lawsuit
Absolutely mind boggling bad.... If you want to try and get the writing off, generally a magic eraser would take that off quite easily(with a tiny bit of 91-99 percent alcohol. If its just on the WATA case, shouldn't be hard at all. If its on the game, that definitely more tricky but doable
Or just use a dry erase marker if it's sharpie because dry erase markers have a solvent in them for sharpie. Scribble over the marker on it and use a cloth to clean it off.
I don't think the game is swapped. The sticker angle and position are correct (the outer edges of the sticker would be where they are if the core was positioned like that. It is all correct). It says, "Receiving" on the front. It is possible they write on all the games (probably a dry erase marker) and forgot to wipe it off because they were so focused on their error on the back.
Also, those anti theft stickers are notoriously hard to remove. Surprised they offer “deep cleaning” for those kinds of stickers (and that they don’t f it up more often).
That's fkd up. I leave stickers on unless they are very obtrusive. Security tags are a PIA and hard to remove for a reason -theft prevention , 90% of time will tear the seal. Price stickers use Goo Gone, soak for 5-10 min if difficult. GL next time.
Videogame collecting has gone to absolute shit, makes me sick how all these games get sealed into worthless plastic shells and put in storages! 🤮🤮
Screw WATA, dont even fuck with them anymore, horrible company!!!
I swear they graded my box a 7 and cart 7… i feel like the box is an 8.5 and my cart was minty… i don’t get it. I have 2 other orders i hope they come back fairly graded this time. Great video 🔥 and sorry about the situation… unreal. Like we all said “oh wata mess”
they over graded everything in 2019 and 2020 so in 2021, theyre purposely downgrading everything to make pop reports look more realistic when they release them...
@@deedeemerry1295 dude I completely agree
Having the sticker removed was foolish. That sticker was history, it adds to the story. But you should absolutely get a lawyer.
You will magically see a grade 9/10 pop up in a few months time from wata. 👀
It would be worth checking any selling companies to see any sold a red game with writing on the front
Maybe you should see the video with your eyes next time because the game he received is clearly the same he sent
Back of the WATA case:
GRADE DETAILS:
*Box: 7.0
*Seal: B+
*First-party H-Seam
*Writing on front
😊😊😊
i would let more people know. There needs to be accountability for this, I would be absolutely heart broken. I’d be in a plane the next day. Considering the condition prior to sending it in.
This is actually such a WTF experience. So sorry dude :(
I'm guessing they over saturated it with steam and tried to peel it off with tweezers rather than scrape it with a small very sharp blade. I've removed a lot of stickers from sealed games I've graded, that is so hard to look at especially because it was so clean to begin with.
Dude I am so sorry this happened to you, you legit have a case, that tear was not under the sticker!! Didn’t line up as you proved!!
thumbs on great video always keep up the great work
Really sorry to see that. Rip couldn’t have been under the sticker originally or if it was, they made it much worse. Don’t know why they would write on the game/slide.
The angle of the magnetic sticker and the clear portion around it matches the way the sticker was angled originally so I don't think they swapped your game. However that writing on the front has to be a joke. WTF is that!
Sue them
I can actually go to a local shop and buy a sealed red right now. If I did this has put me off of ever grading 😂
Turn off the light and shine a flashlight on the side, if the light shines behind the letters it's on the plastic case.
Not over yet! I'll send you some of my blood pressure meds!!
This should be the last straw everyone needs to stop sending stuff to wata.
Heard really shady things regarding wata. But honestly you hear shady stuff from all grading companies not just gaming