Le scams in the world of video game collecting are widespread nowadays and constitute one of the major issues in the sector, since they undermine trust on the part of both parties, collector-buyers and the sellers themselves in the industry.
With alarming regularity, reports have been received from sellers who receive returns with tampered packaging, or buyers who discover, too late, that they have bought a refurbished title.
Scambi, sales, auctions: we are talking about operations that on paper should appear safe, but that often turn into concrete risks.
The grading process carried out by The Games Market protects collecting and protecting collecting means protecting trust. The procedure of The Games Market includes a thorough visual examination by the dedicated team, analyzing hundreds of parameters, such as the type of ink on the covers and the intensity and color consistency of the packaging: essential elements for distinguishing an original from a fake or a refurbished item and eliminating the risk factors mentioned above.
The certainty of being protected is acquired when the video game, at the end of the procedure, is placed inside a plexiglass case: the case is sealed with industrial adhesives at the top and bottom. The protection offered by the plexiglass case used by The Games Market is total: durable, transparent and above all non-deformable.
Once encased in the case, the game can no longer be opened or altered in any way.
Being tamper-proof, it is a visible, permanent, objective certificate. For this reason, every collector who wishes to protect their most valuable securities must rely on grading. Not only to protect them physically, but to protect their value and credibility.
Gradation is not just collecting or giving a rating, but it is also a guarantee for both buyers and sellers. There are many scams that occur on the main video game trading platforms, where many buyers purchase a title and later claim that they never received the game, or they return it by shipping it back to the sellers and opening a dispute: the scam becomes apparent when the seller finds in their hands not the video game they had shipped, but another game.
With grading, this scam can no longer be carried out.
Thanks to the title encapsulation system that guarantees its preservation, the game that is shipped is the same game that arrives at its destination, and the person who receives it has the same certainty. By having one’s video game graded, therefore, one will always have the assurance of the title being sold and the one being purchased, with no possibility of scams.
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